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Not much time for this. North country ponds are all skimmed with light snow covering. Safe ice might be here before Christmas. I love the H tulips because they stow so well in my pack basket and sled. I have replaced all spools with 4" and filled to top.On SS my flasher will be my last and the battery is charged.Used my dremil to sharpen my chisel after I did my toenails.Ice cleats are still on my Mucks and look fineBig investment will be my winter purchase of maggots and wax worms. I don't want to think about expensive line and leaders. I have spools of high quality mono that has served me well.My hand drill batteries (20 volt) are charged and my Nils 4 and 6" drills will be fine.Dick
A very happy thanksgiving to all you folks. I hope everybody has a happy and healthy holiday season.This season my plan is to try my hand again with tying my own lake trout jigs. Never had much luck with buck tails in the past, usually do my damage with spoons or plastics, but after seeing how effective flies were in open water I figure tying similar patterns might do well in hardwater.
???Joe, Used crawlers one for tidal white perch but you will have to tell me about ice fishing advantage. Dick
This will be my second season of tying jigs. I started last fall and used all my own bucktails and did well. Don't give up on the bucktails it took me awhile to change over from spoons due to a lack of confidence in them. If you have any questions on tying them up feel free to ask away. I also tie small tungsten jig heads with some bucktail fur and did really well on brookies and pan fish too!
Appreciate that Digs. Being a converted bass guy I definitely favor jigs with plastics as my fall back confidence lures. To be fair my first attempt at buck tails was years ago when I first started tying flies and though I’d get lookers I couldn’t ever seem to connect. I’m no pro but I’d like to think I’ve gotten a bit better since (at least my summer flies work better). Once I actually get my behind in gear I’d love to bounce ideas off you. Roccus you’re not the first I’ve heard that about buck tails from. I’ve been right next to guys crushing lake trout with them and I can’t get a bite (had a friend growing up that would do the same to me striper fishing). I switch to a paddle tail/swim bait and can hold my own (most days). Takes time to build that confidence with anything I guess and it’s so hard not to jump back to old favorites.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!On the subject of bucktails, I still need to update my old lead ones. I went without them last year. What material are you guys using? A friend of mine borrowed my campstove and tank adapter, and, well, I ordered those items last night for this season. His son is living off grid and needs it more than I do, so I cut ties with $60 lol.The thing I really need to do is practice setting up the Quickfish I bought last year. I only had it out when friend and off-grid kid came with me, and they set up/tore down. I want to have it down pat when I'm doing it alone in a breeze.
On the subject of bucktails, I still need to update my old lead ones. I went without them last year. What material are you guys using?
New bait tank looks good, Joe.Round and blue are good. Nice that you had that chiller on hand.
Roccus that’s awesome. I’ll admit I’m a little bummed to hear your redneck chiller didn’t quite do the job. Was going to try something similar this year but I’ll have to figure something else out. (Was hoping not to have to spring for a real chiller).Anyhow, I built a system a lot like your current set up for work and it works great. I think you’ll be very happy with your results this year.
Helluva bait setup Roc, I'm sure you'll keep em happy and healthy in there. No tank for me this year, just gonna roll the dice with local shops this season. I'll get something setup again for next year though.
Yup, chiller brings it down to 42, I set it at 40 but it has a built in 2 degree variance.. I can live with that.Now we need ice.
I'm almost always using big 1oz bucktails that we can still have in lead. If I'm fishing for trout and I want anything smaller I'll go to a swedish pimple or something else. I have some small jigs for perch and crappie and they are all tungsten.
Show off. I wasn't able to take pictures of mine set up in the yard today because I was tangled up in it lol.I finally set up/tore down twice and have a slight clue, but now it's in the middle of my livingroom half in the travel bag. I think I'll stick with the windbreak when I go solo!
Definitely more convenient to get bait on the way, When Nutes opened early it worked good for me, but last season they went open, The traffic circle, didn't have a good variety and didn't open until 6, days half over by the time I got my traps set up.