Well headed over to Bayou last Saturday morning to see if anyone had ventured out on the ice yet.Seems with the cold snap at the beginning of January a good layer of ice had formed and there was at least 50 - 100 people out there. .Headed straight to the minner shop to and picked up 24 good sized minners to get set up for Sunday.
I gave Mike a call Sunday morning to see if he could make it but he had to get the Christmas stuff away(BULLET) . Seems the bullet was decorated for Christmas LOL. .
Anyway I got there around 9.00 and headed out to a favorite spot.I drilled around 6 holes along with a few other that were already there, I set up 8 tipups.
One of the Tipup was set with a rather large Minnow that had'nt survived the night.I put him down and 30 seconds later the flag went and he took off like a Rocket,Tried setting the hook but it was gone.
About 10 minutes later the second went off and a chunky 4 pounder came in.I reset this one and drilled a hole to Jig for perch.2 minutes Into Jigging the next tipup went spinning like crazy.This was a good fish.I set the hook and the fish was on.Took about 5 minutes to get him to the hole but I could'nt get his head to come thru.Finally managed to get him to come out of the hole 3/4 of his lengtht and the 30lb braid snapped.F%$#^^%K this fish was in the 8-10 lb range. OK I was 1/3 but still having a blast ,this was shaping up to be one of the best icefishing days yet.
I got 2 more 4 lbers and then hooked another nice fish that went around 6-7 lbs.I got him out of the hole and was just about to remove the hook when another Tipup went doubleheader , I left that fish on the ice and headed right over and started to pull this fish in but it felt like I had a whale .I then put my gloves on and yanked away finally getiing a nice 5 lber in. I had a good laugh when I looked over at the other hole and the first fish of the double header was gone,seems they had crossed each other and I could'nt help pulling one in and pulling the other back in.
I ended up with 8 Pike out of 11 hooked with the big one gone. The bite shutdown around 12.00 and I preceded to jig for panfish and each hole as I finished.Managed 5 nice perch with one going around 13-14 inches.What a blast .
I took some pics but the camera was in video mode,If anyone know how to convert .AVI
to pics let me know.
All in all a great day
Scummer
