Friday, January 14, 2011

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 1/14/11

Tip Up Walleye
We had a great time fishing Houghton Lake today. Started out at 7am in 8.5 FOW and caught our first walleye by 7:30am on a tip up setup with a small minnow. The morning action was good and we caught a few undersized fish and six pike before noon. We tried lots of setups and most of them caught fish today. Overall the best action was on small spoons and minnows jigged off of the bottom. I tried out the new Northland spoon in the morning and hooked two perch, one small pike, and zero walleye, so the testing will continue. The best fishing time for us was 12:40 - 1:30pm, during that time period we were very busy hooking fish. Mark had a great day fishing, but had his favorite jigging pole ripped out of his hand and pulled down the hole about an hour before dark. We will be out later this week and we'll be looking for the pike that is hooked to Marks fishing rod.

Good Luck...
7:30am First Walleye of the Day




 
Perch on a Northland Moxi Spoon

4 comments:

  1. Nice Job Dennis! Nice to see you fishing HL again...can't wait to get up there...we are heading up soon...Tom is up Scouting this weekend. Keep up the post, always a pleasure to view and see how the action is going. Nice new web page!

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  2. Thanks for the feedback! Were fishing the North shore tomorrow morning (1/21) and will let you know what we find.

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  3. Where are you guys fishing at on the lake? this weekend will be my first time ice fishing at Houghton and I would like to get ahold of some walleye.

    Bryan

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  4. Bryan,
    I suggest fishing on the North Shore this weekend to avoid the Tip Up Town traffic. I'll post some GPS point and map on the Houghton Lake Tab in the fishing report. Good Luck...

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