mid winter

1.17.21 Trenton Catfish!

~ James Skinner

Trenton fishing, tried out a spot I have been seeing people at a lot lately, let’s call it the point. It’s the end of the center bank on the far side of the lake right off the sunken tree line. We were fishing from 6 to 9 feet, the basin was 9 ft, and then it jump up to shallow right near shore. We got fish in all areas but right on that ledge seemed really good. Caught lots of fish, pike, walleye, catfish, crappie, and white bass. The “squid” rattle spoon in rainbow worked great.

We caught fish all day, was calm and around 25 degrees. Day before was crazy warm and pretty windy.

1.16.2021 Trenton

~ James Skinner

Went out on a very windy day. Set up on the north side of lake because of wind. Was in about 9 feet and caught 4 small pike. Maybe would have caught more but I wanted to try and move and that ended up being a bad idea and wind blew me off the ice.

Lunds 2.15.20

~ James Skinner

Went out to Lunds to try and find some big pike that might be there this time of year. Ended up having a good day overall, with most of our fish coming during mid day, 2-3 ish. Got 2 walleye, 3 pike, and a eelpout! Fishing in 7-12 feet of water out on the west end of the bay near the opening with the submerged stumps. Seemed like a good spot, but only got 1 big pike at 12 lbs.

1.25.20 pike on muddy

~ James Skinner

Got on some pike at the muddy catching 12 total biggest being 6.5 and 5 lbs. This seems to be the best place to catch fish this time of year, the dead of winter. River recently rose, we were in 10 fow near the end of the road and the sky was blue and temps were almost 40 degrees. Caught fish from 12 till about 2:30, then a front started coming in eventually bringing snow and rain that shut off any bite. Good times!

Lunds 12/27/19

~ James Skinner

Tried Lunds landing again today for pike, I always feel like that little point by the marina should be so good in winter. I managed to catch 4 smaller pike, 3 being identical at 27 inches. Nothing too impressive, all came from 3-4 o’clock. Nice sunny blue sky day with no wind though.

Side note one pike had a small crappie in it, so kinda cool. No pics sadly.

Ice fishing the muddy

~ James Skinner

Been ice fishing on the muddy the past few weeks just outside of scenic and have been catching loads of small pike on just tips ups and smelt. Mostly less than 5 lbs. Water was about 6 to 8 ft deep with close to 20 inches of ice.

Started January 22nd till post date