Fishing Report January 12 2015 Massachusetts

Conditions: Cloudy skies with rain/sleet/snow falling, air temperatures low 30's, moderate winds, bait of the day - Clam Pro Tackle Duckbill Drop tipped with a Maki Plastic Maki in white color

There was a lake that I was fishing last fall that was producing a great 12 inch crappie bite and wanted to give it a try this ice season. The lakes ice is setup very nicely with a solid 8 inches of clear ice and this part of the lake has a lot of structure contours that range for 6 feet in areas out to 20 feet in the deeper parts.

Started marking fish right away but was soon to see that all they wanted to do was look at the bait and refused to commit to biting. Typically when we run into this scenario, we just keep drilling holes and search out the more aggressively biting fish as changing baits didn't seem to make much difference anyway. Was fishing all of the depth variations and finally worked out into the deepest waters and had one quick school of crappies move through at 6 feet below the ice.

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