Port Bolster Sat. Feb 13, Cold Day

[namrehsif]

Arrived at Casey's this past Saturday around 7am, as per usual, started the day with a phenomenal breakfast called the Fisherman's Breakfast Platter 3 eggs, Ham, Bacon, Sausage, Home fries, Toast and Coffee. Any of you readers haven't tried it your missing out.

Paid for my meal, parking and a couple scoops of minnows and headed out on the ice. To say it was cold is an understatement. As I was walking there was no way I was heading out to deep water, there were times when a gust of wind would kick up enough snow off the ice you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Set up the Rapala Portable and got the heater fired up. (To the 2 guys brave enough to be out there as well, if your on this site thanks once again for the heads up, these 2 fella's did everything but fire a skud missile at me to get my attention that my Sled Cover was heading to the North Pole without me.) Chased my cover down and was fishing within minutes. I was set up in 20 FOW and was marking fish right away. Lowered the Marcum down to see what was going on and there were Perch in every direction.

With so many fish about you'd think it be easy but that was not the case. Threw everything known to man at them Minnow on Hook, Minnow on Jig, Slab Grabber, etc... they just weren't interested. Until I tipped a Lindy's Rattlin Flyer with Pink Gulp Maggots, I honestly couldn't keep them off my line at this point it was a feeding frenzy. If I had to guess and be realistic, I caught and released 80 to 90 dinks. Kept 24 Jumbo's and 2 White Fish (a 6 and 6.5 pound) that seemed lost as they were on their own.

Fished until 4:30, one thing I noticed while watching the Perch Schools come and go. They'd come in a school of 30 or 40, of these there would be 4 or 5 Jumbo's and the rest were dinks. This was the case all day.

Also had a Pike come in and park directly below me for about 5 minutes. Best guess would be 8 to 10 pounds. He was not interested in feeding at all and at one point I popped him right on the snout with a Jigging Rap and he just turned his head and swam off.

All in all a good day despite the Arctic Temperatures and was interesting to see the patterns the Fish were forming.

[shagdrrotten6969]

Great report and nice bonus whities in 20 fow .

[cribpro]

nice report..details make for a good read!

[nocod]

Thanks for posting