Decided that I needed to fish today as it was beautiful outside and was hopeful the ice on Simcoe was mostly gone at Jackson's Point. Strong winds last week should have done some damage. With a 15km north wind I thought there might be some ice blown up in the shore and I was right. I met up with Xialou at 1pm to do some afternoon fishing. The water was nice and calm, no waves but past the break wall I could see ice.... and lots of it as far as I could see. "I dont care, i'm here I am going for a paddle and hopefully I'll catch a fish"....
OUTCOME: ZERO fish caught, saw a dead 5lb+ bass on the bottom and lots of dead pan fish in the shallows. We acted as an ice breaker also.
People fishing from shore also caught zero fish.
The water is 38*F there is ice 50ft from the break wall and some of it is still 6" thich and strong ice.
Here are some photo's.
Sitting in 15' of water on the ice edge. There was some very soft ice and then got thick.
Testing out the new fishfinder. I am looking for advice on my Elite 5HDI settings. Could not see my lure in any depth of water today. Also as you can see in the picture the bottom did not show straight but looks bumpy and patchy.
- I have my transducer in the hull...Do you think that may effect the Downscan Image. When I switched to it, dont have a photo but it showed the bottom at the top of the screen and was no consistent with the fish graph image. Any advice.
Lots of ice.
Basically we washed some small plastic baits and went for a paddle.
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