Hey Kevin,

You’re right, we’re right back where we were a few weeks ago. I went out of the ford river last night and fished down by Round Island, the water temp was 55 degrees, instead of 74 a couple days ago and the fish were worse than lock-jawed, they were gone! It was like they just vanished into thin water! I couldn’t, and never did find them. I was marking one here and there on the bottom of the Round Island drop-off, in 18FOW but that was it. I’m not quite sure where they go and stack up in conditions like that; shallow, deep, weeds, breaks? It’s one thing when you know that you’re on fish and they just won’t open up their mouth but it’s very frustrating when you can’t even locate them! Anyway, at least when it got dark a couple of little 19 inch’ers saved me from the skunk.

Get them ice augers ready, at this rate we’ll be needing them in a couple days!