Panfish on plastics

[Baron Von Crappie]

We went out early saturday looking for some crappies, none in their usual spots, did a lot of moving around, finally went where others were fishin, started getting gills pretty good, lots of small ones with some keepers mixed in. Got em on a 1 80th oz jig with makiplastics. Crappies started biting near sundown, got a few eaters. a long but fun day on the ice...
Nice gill


some eaters

[birdman]

nice fish man! here in mid illinois out waters are about 35-37 degrees with most ponds and smaller lakes froze....I can ALMOST feel me drilling them holes!

[KCBALLER]

those eat well

[Baron Von Crappie]

I got out to ice some panfish this weekend tried a few spots, the bite was tough but I was able to finesse a few on plastics and micro leadheads...

Big mouth tiny bait


a couple of ice fishin buddies.


Yes, people are out in full sized SUVs and large shantys, oh my!

small speck


Gill


slab

[KCBALLER]

thanks for pics, good fish

[Baron Von Crappie]

I had a good three day weekend doing lots of icefishing up north with Jack, Cory, Dave Lindmark, Ben newton and his brother Calvin, and Casey. Lots of big sunfish were biting in the weeds and out on deeper flats. Plastics worked well, so did maggots, waxies and gulp baits.
Pike , bass , crappies, perch, and rockbass kept us busy too, but no walleyes were to be found.
Here are some bluegill pics...