Thread: Late ice big bluegills, bass, and perch

I got out with some friends for some late ice sunfish action, and had a great bite going on. I got more 10 inch bluegills than i can remember on an ice fishing outing. plus bonus largemouth bass up to four pounds and some good perch, sunny and 50 degrees too, cant beat that!
I got my fish on a lindy rattlin' flyer spoon with lots of red maggots for bait, also got some on a fatboy jig. Upsizing was the key to getting bigger fish. smaller plastics also worked, but you had to sort through more small fish. Most of the fish were in 8 to 11 feet.
Get out while you can, this late ice won't be around long, and the fish are really feeding now!
MT Bucket: Big sunfish and bass action

MT

Ufff da! Nice sunnies. They eat so fine.
Reminds me of when I lived up dere.
You DID put those bass back so there would be something in there fun to catch this summer didn't you??? They are not eating fish, just catch and release. :D

Originally Posted by peculiarmike

Ufff da! Nice sunnies. They eat so fine.
Reminds me of when I lived up dere.
You DID put those bass back so there would be something in there fun to catch this summer didn't you??? They are not eating fish, just catch and release. :D

Bass season is closed, so they go right back in. also all the larger sunfish are released. big sunfish are even rarer than bass and are too valuable to be caught only once :
we kept some smaller gills and perch for the pan

those are some giant gills! Great photos and I know it had to be a fun day!

oh yah it was a blast!