By Chuck Eldredge on 3/11/2009 12:14 PM

One of the best thrills you can experience fishing through the ice is the congregating and staging of Smallies on rock piles in March and April as the ice exits the scene. Recently my son and I ventured out to one of my favorite rock pile on Roy Lake, SD. Jan at Roy Lake Resort set us up with a burger basket to go and out we went.

We went to the spot on the spot and set up our portable and I no sooner dropped the camera down the hole and there was the first Smallie. Charlie (my son) was all but climbing the walls watching the monitor and hurrying me to get the teaser leaders rigged up and down the hole. We dressed a plasmic pink mono series teaser leader with a 3" sucker minnow. A few minutes down on the rocks and a 16 inch walleye came through and helped itself to a delicious sucker minnow.  Over the next few hours we picked up a few more Walleyes, Northern Pike and Smallmouth with the biggest Smallmouth coming up at 18". A great day on the ice and we headed in.  The teaser leader was performing perfectly. ...

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