[Andrushkin33]

So,

Original idea was to fish at big H. Got there around 6 in morning and going to Dows I realized this is not happening. Was a circus early in the morning and I swear I all I heard was Russian and Polish. All out in full force.

Got the bait and we hightailed out of there. Saw people on the ice already starting out early in a dark. I guess I am not the only one with a habit of going out on the ice in a dark.

Anyways that being said we decided to move up to Cranberry. I probably would of still fished at H but the crew made a decision so we all moved there.

Ice was solid at the places we were at, no complains there but was cracking all day long. We claimed out area and pretty much just moved around it looking for some bites.

Fished from 7am till 4pm
Bait used: Shinners, flatheads, wax worms and moussies.

Personally did not catch anything so no fish porn from me. In total we had about 10 people in our group. Ours had 4 and there were 6 others that we knew. Used jig rods with moussies for some perch action but they were so small that we thought about using them for bait. Cooler heads prevailed and they were released. Got nothing on wax worms but some sunnies which were released as well. Between 10 of us we caught about 12 pickerels (biggest one was 21 inches with rest between 17 and 20), One lonely bass around 17 inches, One lonely crappie around 12 inches and couple of perch which was around the same size. All of the above were caught on tip ups and most were caught by 11am.

After 11 fishing slowed so had the grill out to warm up a bit and have some snacks and enjoy the scenery.

Overall great day of fishing.

Quick question. Since I am starting out and still have lots to learn a question about tip ups. With all that open space on the lake I was really surprised about someone (not from our group) drilling holes 5 feet away from my. I didn't say anything just wondering if that's considered okay.

Andre