The ice fishing remains slow this winter but I think once we’re through January, it will pick up. One bright thing for the future is the fact that fishermen are catching a lot of small crappies, running 3 and 4 inches. Why would that be good? It’s because in a couple of years we’ll have tremendous crappie fishing.
Crappies are somewhat cyclic. When you have a good year-class, they grow up and eat like a pack of wolves. The problem is that they eat all the baby crappies too. So what happens is you have a large population of big crappies and none coming behind to take their place and once fishermen catch the majority of the adults, the population crashes.
Then the surviving adults spawn and the baby fish have a chance to survive, and the cycle begins again. It looks like we’re heading for some great crappie fishing in another couple of years. So, don’t give up on ice fishing. February will be much better than what we’ve been seeing and if the ice holds up, March will be great.
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