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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #30 on: Oct 18, 2009, 08:07 AM »
I will always be grateful for the good fishing that I enjoy in NY, and considering that NY is a great place to live for so many other reasons, that makes this fact even more appealing. That said, I would love to take an ice-fishing vacation to some of those lakes in Manitoba where our Canadian friends post their pics from. I would love to have one of their " average " days of icing 3 pike over 20 pounds.
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #31 on: Oct 18, 2009, 02:12 PM »
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #32 on: Oct 18, 2009, 02:18 PM »
It's 300lb red squirrel.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #33 on: Oct 18, 2009, 02:45 PM »
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #34 on: Oct 18, 2009, 02:53 PM »
I guess you really have to watch your nuts in that neck of the woods.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #35 on: Oct 18, 2009, 02:58 PM »
Big squirrels, big fish, we have it all in New York. ;D ;D
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #36 on: Oct 18, 2009, 04:31 PM »
I joke about moving to Maine or someplace north for ealier ice. Honestly though, I wouldn't trade the area in for anything in the world. We can fish one lake and catch every species you could see in the Maine threads. And there are many bodies of water that have everything to offer. All joking aside for just one post, I love it here. Man, Some of us should get paid for marketing tourism in NY.
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #37 on: Oct 18, 2009, 07:47 PM »
Maine got the best fishing.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #38 on: Oct 18, 2009, 08:03 PM »
Indiana has the best all around Ice Fishing challenges around, You never know if the ice is thick enough
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #39 on: Oct 18, 2009, 08:07 PM »
Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #40 on: Oct 18, 2009, 08:29 PM »
Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.
Oh snap! You gonna get a war started.
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #41 on: Oct 18, 2009, 09:02 PM »
In wisconsin we have available for ice fishing-

Trout/Salmon:
Browns
Brookies
Rainbows/Steelhead
Lakers
Splake
Coho
Kings
Probably a couple other hybrids I can't remember

Panfish:
Black & White Crappie
Bluegill & Pumpkinseed
Yellow Perch (Whites are here but considered invasive and therefore evil)
White & Yellow Bass

Larger Gamefish:
Pike
Musky (only early ice if it shows up in time, musky season ends early)
Tiger Musky (hybrid, same rules as regulars, more or less)
Walleye
Sauger
Saugeye
Lake Sturgeon (special spearing season only)
Large and Small mouth bass

Other fish:
Eelpout
Carp
Smelt

Memory isn't treating too well, I'm sure I've forgotten about others that aren't listed here. 

Probably the best known fishing opportunity in Wisconsin is the Lake Sturgeon spearing season that takes place on the Winnebago lake system.  Thousands of peole get their darkhouses out there to find those 175+lb sturgeon.  Season lasts maybe a week or 2 at most, have to register fish like they are deer....  it's a big deal in the area.  I've never tried it, mostly because I have no experience spearing and don't know anyone directly who does, but some day I'm gonna get in on the circus on Winnebago.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #42 on: Oct 19, 2009, 02:34 AM »
Who can count the lakes, rivers, ponds and streams in NY?  Fishing is where you find it. What I know is, in my more than 50 years of fishing NY, I haven't touched 2% of the available fishery.

I live in the Finger Lakes region. From my house, in an hour or less, my boat can be in Lake Ontario, Cayuga, Seneca, Canandaigua, Honeoye, Conesus, Braddock's Bay, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Port Bay, the Erie canal, Cross lake or the Genesee, Oak Orchard or Seneca Rivers. If I want to drive another half hour I can hit Keuka. Another half hour and I can be on Oneida, Fair Haven, the Oswego or Niagara Rivers.

I can't even get into the number of high quality streams I can fish within 2 hours of home and the secret ponds I know will remain just that. I'll stay right here in NY, thank you. Does it have problems? Yes! So does every other state.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #43 on: Oct 19, 2009, 02:59 AM »
I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala  :clap: 


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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #44 on: Oct 19, 2009, 03:29 AM »
If we're talking icefishing opportunities though I'd have to say some of the canadian provinces and territories.

Wise man ;D

I'd have to say northern Yukon Territory with their 7 months of ice season has us here in northern BC beat. But I do get to fish 2 minutes out my back door.
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #45 on: Oct 19, 2009, 05:47 AM »
I would bet the Erie Canal, Mohawk River system alone has more species of fish than most states. Bass, Tiger musky, Trout, BIG BIG Catfish,Crappie, all the pan fish ,Sturgeon, pike, big drum, so on and so on.  Most people think its just a big sess pool, but the state has no
restrictions on eating fish from it. Oh ya and this body of water is, what, 450 or 500 miles long...

 Dem Mainers aint gots nutting on us.. ::) ;D ::) ;D ::) ;D
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #46 on: Oct 19, 2009, 06:32 AM »
Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.

LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #47 on: Oct 19, 2009, 08:08 PM »
I Like Maine, we dont have to deal with many crowds.

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #48 on: Oct 19, 2009, 08:15 PM »
I've hiked into Adirondack ponds and fished for Brookies all weekend and never saw another person...or fished the Mohawk all day and never ran into any fishermen. Cant beat NY.... ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #49 on: Oct 19, 2009, 08:24 PM »
I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala  :clap: 

European pike grow much larger than ours, I would like to fish Scandinavia! It is one of my dreams to fish Europe. I have a good friend from Sweden, and her husband is from Holland. They say that enough of the population speaks English for me to get by without learning a new language.

Someday, when I have more money than I have time to spend it. Until then, I will just have to fish the Land of Sky Blue Waters. ;)

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #50 on: Oct 19, 2009, 08:33 PM »
How about them German Browns...That would be fun.. I would give up a day on the ice in NY to come up and fish with you Skipper..
The closest Ive been to Mn. is when I could see it from a mt. top when I was on Isle Royale..
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #51 on: Oct 19, 2009, 09:02 PM »
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #52 on: Oct 20, 2009, 10:56 AM »
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #53 on: Oct 21, 2009, 06:04 AM »
I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala  :clap: 
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #54 on: Oct 21, 2009, 06:41 AM »
I have fished alot of states  and I have to say  the most productive of size is

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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #55 on: Oct 21, 2009, 10:07 PM »
LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.
Um? ??? Never mind...
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #56 on: Oct 22, 2009, 06:43 PM »
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #57 on: Oct 22, 2009, 07:26 PM »
Well, Mass doesn't have many walleye to speak of(I've never caught a walleye through the ice >:( )....so I agree with Ice Junky.  I've always wanted to fish the Bay of Quinte.  NW Territories have some tremendous Pike, Laker and Walleye fishing as well.  Tough choice.  Seeing NY is close I'll take NY all day long over MA in the way of big sportfish like Walleye, Pike and Lake Trout though.  Heck in MA we don't have a lake to fish for Lake Trout  "through the ice"...or many for Walleye for that matter.  Not the best pike fishery either. I know some guys do pretty well, but I'm talking about the # of lakes and the volume of pike in the waters here.  We are a put and take trout state which sucks!  I'd rather see more pike stocking in some of the waters around here rather than trout.
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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #58 on: Oct 22, 2009, 08:32 PM »
nobody likes my trouser trout pic? :whistle:






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Re: Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?
« Reply #59 on: Oct 24, 2009, 12:19 PM »
I've only ice fished in Ny so i can't speak from any kind of experience elsewhere, but from being on this site over the years and seeing what other states have to offer I'd really have to say the Northeast as a whole is where it's at. Sure canada has some famous waters, but frig I'd be willing to bet half the reason there so good is lack of fishing pressure, add in that it's a 100 below  out most days and you need an extension for your auger to get through the ice and well it doesn't sound all that fun. I ve been out to the land a 10,000 lakes, and well, here in the Northeast we don't call 2 foot deep 5 acre ponds lakes.  Throw a dart at a topo map of NY sometime it is truly unbelievable the amount of water there is and i live right smack dab in the middle of it. One could not in there entire lifetime fish half of it, I'd love to try but I am perfectly content with trying to get on the 100 or so that are within a 2 hr drive of me. Look at the DACKS !!!! You can't drive 5 miles without going by a lake !!!!

There is great fishing all around the country, and a lot of it is in our backyard..
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