Crane Creek Monster

[Madd Matt]

Hey, if any of you haven't been venturing out on the ice at Crane Creek because you heard there was a sea monster out there.... Have no fear. We got it!

[wakina]

Hey, if any of you haven't been venturing out on the ice at Crane Creek because you heard there was a sea monster out there.... Have no fear. We got it!

That is one nice fish! Congrats to you.

[Madd Matt]

Okay... So you all want details... I figured you'd just be happy for a fellow fisherman.
Caught Wednesday, Feb 12, 2014 around 2:00 p.m.
About 6 miles out from Crane Creek... There are huts everywhere. Green was the color.
Overall a slow start to the day, 1 fish until 1:00... 3 guys fished till 5:30 pm and ended up with 12 overall... a couple over 26" the one in the picture is right at 32" (we didn't have a scale), and a handful of 18-22"ers

I don't have exact GPS numbers, but they wouldn't help you anyway... We didn't throw it back.

-Matt

[Bggeary]

We ARE happy for you Matt. So how deep was the water 22'=25'? Swedish pimple? Little cleo? Huh, huh? Really tho, NICE fish.

[Madd Matt]

We ARE happy for you Matt. So how deep was the water 22'=25'? Swedish pimple? Little cleo? Huh, huh? Really tho, NICE fish.

This isn't "my" fish... Just for the record, just a buddy that I was with ( 3 of us).
He was using an alligator (or crockodile) something... It was green... Really that's all I recall. But the most fish were caught on blue pimple #6, and another blue spoon thingy. I know... Great details. You guys will have to bear with me. This was my first venture on the ice. I have a 30' Sportcraft and can tell you all the the colors and names of Reef Runners and Michigan Stingers, I can talk about different perch rigs from Skipper 9 rigs to crappie rigs...

I do know it was in 25 FOW

I just got introduced to ice yesterday ( @ -18 degrees) and I'm learning the lures and equipment.

-Matt

[Bggeary]

Thanks Matt, water depth was probably most important anyway. I'm new to this stuff also. I'm out of bass haven and can tell you all that other stuff also, but am getting hip to ice jigs. swedish pimples seem to be the go to jig. Thanks again, Geary

[Eye Doctor]

Nice clean fish to mount....None of those goiters that they sometimes get.

[walleye2go]

Nice toad!

Greg

[EYE TAMER]

Must be a lot of these monsters lurking the waters. Here is a picture of the one my wife caught on Feb. 1 near Camp Perry at 10:00 am. This fish measured a little over 32 inches and I won't have a weight on it until the taxidermist thaws it out. Bad part about this story is I had it hooked on a blue and silver Lil Cleo and fought with it to get its head to start up thru the hole and my wife went to grab it, pulled it half way out and the fish threw the hook and needless to say went back down and all I could do was watch it looked dazed as it swam away. Wasn't 2 minutes later and that same fish hit on her blue and silver Sweedish Pimple and the battle was on again. I managed to pull that fish out of the hole and again it threw the hook but didn't have near the fight as the first time around. Truly a magnificent and beautiful creature. Be safe out there next week and have fun!