Strike out on Irondequiot Bay

Shuman cooking clam chowder

Well Shu and I went out to Irondequiot Bay Saturday and joined the rest of the 300+ crazies on the ice.  There were Clams as far as the eye could see.  We had a feast on the ice with our Swan's brauts and hots.....clam chowder....yum!!!  Which was good because the fishing was awful.  Shu caught the only perch.  We saw a lot of alewives as they swam around our ice holes.  Ice Shanty had reported the fishing was still slow there, but we had a blast anyhow.  We stayed until the waning hours of daylight and was the second to last clam to leave the ice.  Earlier in the day there were a group of six clams and two deep fryers....they were all frustrated because they were thinking they were going to deep fry the perch on the lake, but they did not catch one perch all day!.

The ice was a good 8 inches thick and we were fishing in 30 feet of water.  I brought my propane heater in the clam and several times did we get the temperature above 100 degrees in the clam.