Yup, it was lonely..... I saw no-one I knew on the water until 4pm when I was leaving. I think the dude under the helmet was Pat Sotherland... looked like his boat. One would almost think the freeze-in had been cancelled.
Well, I hit the water at 8.30am, it was grey and windy with a spot or two of drizzle. Spent an hour under the bridge fishing pilings and any drop-offs over 35ft - nothing!. Fished the 30-40ft line South from the East Mercer Launch down the docks and started hitting Perch almost immediately. Got one 13" smalllie drop-shotting a Sniper lure, small 2" worm looks like a french-fry, wackyrigged from about 34ft. Nothing but Perch until Noon when I hit Kidd Valley for a Burger and gave myself 2 bucks.
Ran up to Webster Point after lunch, via the Log-Boom, not even a nibble at either spot so I moved back down under 520 and fished off Grote Point, again drop-shotting 30-45ft, hits loads of Perch and a 16" 2 1/2lb smallie
at about 2.30pm. Left at 4.00pm and got hit by the rain as I left the car park, first real rain all day.
Had fun, wish there were more people there.