Finally got out for a little ice time.
Should have been out last week or even earlier but was dealing with an infection that needed fixing so the ice had to wait a couple of weeks. Got out to my preferred early season troot lake around 11 AM and found around 10" of clear black ice with about an inch of snow on it.
We need another good snowfall to make the snowmobling good but the trails were fair today.
The fishing was decent but the landing sucked!! LOL
I had several nice trout hammer my airplane jig scream off a bunch of line only to spit the hook.
Dang you NWT and your barbless rule!!
I had bites on tube jigs as well as said airplane jig but the tube bites were super light and I only managed to stick one or two fish on the tube (they both got away unfortunately). I think the change in weather put the fish down today. It has been overcast with a little snow the last few days and today it was pretty much cloudless.
Temp when I hit the lake was -24C with a light North breeze making it feel like -30C or so.
Notice the Sunflower heater mod for cooking and boiling water for a cup of tea or soup.
All in all not a bad day. Hooked a bunch of fish (none landed), got out on the sled and got some excersize.
Now to wait until next week.
