Couldn't get myself out of a warm bed this morning, so I finally hit Eloika 1200-1615. Hiked all the way almost to Jerry's Landing from the public launch. Found the deeper water, but no fish for me. Must be my lack of maggots - fishing shrimp and Berkley "fake" maggots. I just can't find the fish; Could be there's just a morning bite, or I'm jigging the wrong sorta stuff. Caught 3 dink perch and 1 of those pickerels (grass pike) ya'll have been talking about. That was the most exciting hit as it came on my first time fishing a Rapala jigging rap. Then sadly said rap was lost to the weeds. Made an otherwise crappy outing even crappier.

One fisherman on the ice when I arrived and one when I left. First one had three bass. Second one had a bass and a few decent-sized perch.

Unless I'm desperate for ice, I think I'm gonna cross Eloika off my ice fishing list. Gonna wait on Silver to ice up, or maybe hit Fourth of July or Sprague.

Ice is still 5-8" in most places; 1 inch of slush, 2-3 inches opaque ice, 2-3 inches clear ice.

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