Sunday, January 30, 2022

Some Ice Action



Oliver Round and I fished Round Valley Pond this morning, beginning at 14 degrees. In the photo, his pickerel had just broken off at the hole. We missed four other hits. 

When I last ice fished here, four years ago with my son, we caught three pickerel, and he lost one at the hole. He caught one 22 inches and let a college girl, who with a friend had fallen into conversation with him, catch one.

When we got out today, there was another guy fishing in the distance near the beach. We did see him catch something. Another guy came and set most of his tip-ups over water about 45 feet deep, and a party of three went way into the back where there's a shallow flat.

We got most of our hits relatively shallow, about 10 feet down among residual weeds, although another one was from 15 feet or so of water. The great exception was something taking a shiner in about 25 feet of water, which might have been a bass. I see no reason for the bass having not receded into the pond's deepest 45 feet, except that there's surely not enough forage there to keep them fed.

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2 comments:

  1. Where is RV pond in relation to RV reservoir?

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    1. The dike to the left of the Main Launch separates them.

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