Well I had better success this year ice fishing, at Crawford Reservoir. We landed 3 pike in two trips on small perch jigs, but we averaged 6 flags per day between three tip ups. The pike seemed to be on a small flat just off of a steep dropping shore line, a foot off the bottom in 12- 18 feet of water. We landed 2 or 3 pike each time on our tip ups too, had one bite us off and had others pick up the baits and drop them. Six inch long anchovies fished on quick strike rigs and stunned yellow perch in the 4" range worked good too. If we were allowed more tip ups, we probably could have landed 5 - 10 pike per day. Still nothing big, just ones around 24". We did hook several that thought our perch jigs looked tasty that were much bigger. Still lots of fun when we were catching 50 - 100 perch per day, with some in the 10 - 14" range, and a few slab crappie mixed in too. Waiting for a flag to pop up and then finally seeing a flag up is such a wonderful site. Then seeing the line peeling off the spool and feeling the fish surge as you pick up the line and set the hook. The runs, the head shakes. Man, tip up pike are a blast. I wish we could several tip ups each like in some states. What fun.
Tyler
