Pond Frog:
Thanks for the response. While I agree that more cover is good cover, I think that the plentiful weeds have that mainly covered (no pun intended). A lot of the bottom of the lake is thick with weeds, especially in the heat of the summer. I'm actually going up to ice-fish thursday, and i'll get a good look at the bottom with a fishcam to confirm that they are still there in winter too.
And the bass are tiny. That's the big problem. The biggest ones have HUGE heads and tiny bodies. Caught one on the ice last year on a tip-up and a roach, it's head was big enough to rob 3 roaches from a line of tip-ups, with all of the minnows still in his gullet....the body, though, was skinny at best, anorexic at worst.
The minnows are really small species, and they swarm the shorelines, there are millions of them. Would bringing a bigger minnow species in help?
I still think that the end-all is going to be the homeowner's association buying a tiger muskie from a hatchery, and allowing it and Onezey to do their dirty work on the tiny bass for a few years.
Any thoughts? Thanks for the feedback!
