Had a good day today gentleman, not much for fish but still a good day. First lake we hit was a total bust, looked good on Google maps but turned out to be a swamp lake, I was surprised as it's quite a fair sized little lake maybe 3 miles long by 2 miles wide. But no water in it, maybe 2 feet of stanky water under the ice. So ran back to the truck and loaded the machines then down the logging road another 10 or 12 miles and north a couple miles and unloaded again and into a set of 4 lakes. After a 4 mile quad ride we were on our second lake of the day, it looked better. We did find the water on this lake better and clean. After a few holes we found it to be not too deep maybe 12' at the deepest. We did some running and gunning and hit about 4 spots with one small pike to show for it. So we ran down the creek bed to the 3rd lake of the day. Again decent water but couldn't find anything over 10'. After 2 sets 4 of holes only 1 hammer handle pike. So back to lake the 2nd lake and a high bank that looked like it would be the deepest part of the lake. Here I hammered off a series of 8 holes and got into about 14' of water. Fished there till 5 and nothing but 4 hammer handle pike, no perch, no eyes.
So no biggy, it was a miss today. We still have quite a few more to check out until ice out we are laying the next plans already. Tomorrow we are headed into Waterhen, it's a bigger more well known lake apparently they have been hitting some decent pike in the 20# range and some nice eyes. We will leave the exploring until next day off in March.
No fish but a blast checking out new country and trying to find your way around out there, always good to be out it's never a waste of time.
