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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: Iceshanty on Sep 23, 2019, 08:06 AM
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Fall is near! Ice fishing thoughts are on the brain! Dig up your most awesome ice fishing picture from last season and post it here on this thread or on contest post on Iceshanty facebook.
Please add a little text or story about the photo. *This will be included in the judging. On December 7th 2019 I'll select the top ten... which will then be voted on by the membership to determine the top 3 winners of the CJS jig and Iceshanty swag prize pack.
Prizes
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Top 10 I select will win a 3 month Iceshanty Hardwater Member trial package. (https://www.iceshanty.com/iceshanty/iceshanty_store/militia)
Iceshanty Hardwater profile icon, pm box increased to hold 100 messages, more contests, post items in the for sale board.
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Top 3 that are voted best by the membership will win Custom Jigs and Spins (https://www.customjigs.com/) jig 6 pack of Glazba, Chekia, Jaje styles plus a Team Iceshanty Flat Bill Ball Cap, Die-cut decal, and other goodies from the Team Iceshanty Proshop (https://www.iceshanty.com/iceshanty/iceshanty_store/)
Facebook post link
https://www.facebook.com/188496670701/photos/a.10159335100870702/10162135331290702/?type=3&theater
Rules
Post only one image entry per member.
Post only a photo of your own.
Contest entry period ends December 7 2019
Let's see some photos of the hardwater!
Good Luck! :tipup:
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I can't wait! Bought myself a new ion electric auger at the end of the season last year! Looking forward to busting it out! Bring it on! Ice fish baby :tipup: ;D ::)
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My first Ice pike. Caught on 2lb line and a wax worm jigging for panfish.
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My daughter's first landlocked salmon this was our best day last season 1/2 hour into the day 2 traps in out of 5 and 4 flags already the pace never slowed and I never got a trap in myself!
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One on the ice, trying to get him some company!
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fishing with a friend and his girls on Fort Peck
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12 Degree Sunrise
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The end of another great day on the ice
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We got hooked on chasing Lakers on Lake George NY. It's a 3 hour drive, so we leave at 3 AM to be there just before sunrise. This picture is of my son Brenden after punching the first hole of the day as the sun rises. Totally worth it...
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A great morning!
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A beautiful day.
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Second weekend in December finds us in St. Germain making venison sausage at my cousins place. Smokehouse gets lit Friday morning to get any residual humidity out, sausage gets mixed and stuffed in the afternoon and then there's social time until everyone goes home. Sausage hangs in the garage till Saturday afternoon to dry a bit. Wait... what happened to Saturday morning? :-\ Oh, I remember!
Early breakfast then head to the Rainbow for some walleyes! :tipup: :icefish:
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This was actually one of the warmest weekends I fished. Wake up temp was 16F ;D
Had a cool pic of the shack at sunset same day but I picked this. Pictured are my son (foreground) and his buddy. Oh yeah, sausage gets 3 - 5 days in the smokehouse depending on the weather. This batch was done Monday evening. Yum!
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my only photo from last ice season. new lake, just started getting a huge spread set up, and FLAG!
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Size doesn’t matter. We survived a long day and managed to at least catch a fish.
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Just a nice day to be fishing and catch a rare smallmouth. Great fight on light line fishing for crappies.
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Happy Hour
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One perfect sunrise.
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Only had about an hour to fish that day but I ended up with two fish and one beer.
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“Thats a wrap”Last morning of the icefishing season..
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On one of the coldest days I ended up with a nice perch.
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As far as picrtures go, its nothing special, other than a happy kid on a beautiful day. Its for sure a huge Rainbow. The part that is special is that I dont have any idea who this little guy is!! This little guy and his dad were just out for a drive on a nice day and came out to visit with me while I was fishing. I hooked this fish while I was talking to them and knew it was a tank so I grabbed this little guy, handed him my fishing pole and told him to land it. 20 minutes later this was the result!! They were laughing and having a blast, dad was on the phone with mom giving her the play-by-play, the little guy was worried the whole time it would get away. It was cool. He had so much fun I had to give up my rod for the next hour so he could keep fishing lol!! The most memorable fish I have are the ones I didnt even catch!!
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Neat story missoula! You hooked both that fish and the little guy for life! :thumbsup:
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Thank you Sir!!!!
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great story, very cool of you to do that for sure
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A little color on the ice at West Canada Lake last year.
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this is how you do it. very well done.
As far as picrtures go, its nothing special. Its for sure a huge Rainbow. The part that is special is that I dont have any idea who this little guy is!! Him and his dad were just out for a drive on a nice day and came out to visit. I hooked this fish and knew it was a tank so I grabbed this little guy and told him to land it. 20 minutes later this was the result!! They were laughing and having a blast, dad was on the phone with mom giving her the play-by-play. It was cool. He had so much fun I had to give up my rod for the next hour so he could keep fishing lol!! The most memorable fish I have are the ones I didnt even catch!!
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That's cool Missoulafish! Made my day that's what fishing is all about!
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The end to another great day last December at Henry's lake, Idaho. Home of world class Brookies, Cuts & Hybrid's
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So I was jigging for perch in the little city resevoir by myself one fine winter day. With my trusty 20 dollar one 3 fishing ultra light heat wave combo from wallmart. On the reel I had 8lb ice pro braid with 3lb Berkley ice mono leader, tipped with number 2 forage minnow spoon. I had a small school of little perch and gills messing with my emotions on the flasher. When suddenly a gigantic mark smashed my tiny fire tiger spoon. At at first it was kind of heavy and I thought I had a large mouth and luckily had the drag set accordingly. As I brought her up ,I just caught site of the little swivel my leader was attached to and she must have realized she was hooked and she ran. And ran and ran! Completely spooled me to maybe a dozen wraps on the spool. By then I figured it was one of the big pike that lived there, that I have donated god know how many lures to. She allowed herself to be brought backed to the hole until i could see her for the first time... I'm not gonna lie, I peed a little. She must have sensed my weakness and felt I didnt deserve her, and off she went again. This time all the way to the tape that covered the knot on my spool, no more line left to give i thought it was over. Instead she let me bring her back. That all took prob 15 to 20 min plus a million hours, give or take. Got her to the hole I could see just the tip of the minnow poking out of her mouth right in the middle so I figure she would break me off or spit the hook. I knew she could because I set the hook on this particular monster earlier that year and she snapped my 4o gamakatsu hook off at the eye. With no options and nobody responding to my lady like screams for help . I worked her nose into the hole got a finger in her gill and dragged her out onto the ice. I just stared at her for a sec in disbelief, then reach down and grabbed the line to turn her face a little and pop. The line finaly gave. She came in at 41in and weighed 17.24 lbs out of a pond just over 2 acres in size.
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Hell of a fish!!! Hell of a story!!!!! :icefish:
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Though we didn't catch any monsters, this was my favorite brook trout I caught in Idaho on the annual overnight trip with FG Steve (my dad). We've been fishing together for as long as I can remember, and I look forward to many more trips to come :). I'm grateful that he always made it a family thing, and that we have been able to enjoy it together.
We got into the brookies as soon as we arrived, and had a blast jigging them in on the flasher.
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I had never caught a big crappie in my life. I classify that as a 12" plus fish. We fish a spot that I had seen some nice crappie caught from time to time so I decided I was going to figure out how to target those big slabs. Over the course of the last season and 5 trips to that lake we finally got the pattern figured out. We could only catch them at night, and only on small white tube jigs. At first we tried small minnows on small jigs, and caught one or two an evening. It seemed like they would quit coming around close to 9 P.M., so we were starting to reel up, and when we had our lines up I looked at the screen and there was a crappie! So I dropped my jig and minnow down and the fish went away. So I reeled back up and started to turn off the Livescope, but lo and behold there was another crappie! I had taken the minnow off, so I just dropped the bare jig down and boom, he was on. It was so much fun figuring out how to get those big fish to bite. I kept three of the nicest ones for a cool mount. We never caught a single fish under 12 inches, and the biggest was 14.5 inches. This winter I'm looking for one of those 16-18 inch monsters, I guarantee they're in there! Livescope Rocks!
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Jumbo Perch!
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Night fishing is my favorite. It's usually silent, dark, and so peaceful. But on the night of this photo there was a full moon, and at one point an ambulance could be heard off in the distance breaking up the silence. The sirens from the emergency vehicle got all the coyotes nearby howling at the same time for nearly five minutes. We were pulling crappies through the ice to a symphony of predators, and it all started with the best artwork sunset I'd ever captured.
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There is nothing like being outside early in the morning and getting to watch the sun come up. Its even better while you're out fishing with friends & family :tipup:
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Was a balmy like day in January and after playing with the panfish, we headed to the bass pond. Didn't take long for big boys to show up....jigging pimples was the go to and they didn't disappoint! Me and buddy hooked up simultaneously and these two gave up a great battle! Both released unscathed! 😎
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Couple dandy bucketmouths there !!
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Mama told me not to look into the eyes of the sun...But Mama that’s where the fun is. 😜 Eastern End of Lake Erie.March 14 2019 Hardwater Diehard can’t wait until she puts her Lake Effect blanket on for 2020.Wicked Walleyes And Big Jack Perch. Good luck Stay Safe.👍
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Lost this one right at the hole and went elbow deep to snag it!!!! LOL
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This year was definitely the year of the pig for me, not so much for my dad. I took him out 2 times, to some well known trophy walleye lakes and he still couldn't get a big one to commit. My father was the one who introduced me to fishing at a young age. He was also with me every time I caught my personal best walleye. So my goal over the next 2 years to to help him break his personal best.
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Nice fish!! Good luck with your dad's P.B. !!!!
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I caught a ton of fish last year, both new species and PB's but this is by far my favorite photo from last year. My son Gunnar just turned 2 the month before and we had ice fishing on our bucket list for the 2018/2019 season. It was a Saturday and my wife was working that day so I had dad duty. I was home with him when all of a sudden I got a call from my buddy Mike to head up to one of his local ponds since there was over 5" of solid black ice. Well, as fast as I could I grabbed all of the essentials I needed so I could fish and he could be comfortable and have some fun. Stuff like a dog bed so he could sit on while on the ice, Cheetos so he had healthy food (ha), and of course winter clothes! Well we got out there and my buddy and I started catching trout and bluegills and Gunnar was eventually interested enough to give it a try. I was worried that he was going to chuck my jigging rod into the hole but to my surprise, he did not and seconds later, he hooked into a blue gill on his own and the rest, well the picture explains it. Its not the best quality photo, but it sure is the best memory photo! Gunnars first fish in his life, caught all on his own! If you look closely you will see the blue gill he reeled in is in the hole along with a full Cheetos mustache. No dad awards won here! Just a proud dad!
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This was the sunrise on my last trip out. I was walking just snapping quick pics with my phone while pulling my sled. I ended up getting severe flu that day and didn't realize the great sunset shots I had gotten until 2 weeks later.
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First lake trout day of 2019. I had missed a hand full of bites and nobody in my group had caught a fish. Since it was the first day we’d been able to get out over deep water, everybody stuck it out for the long bagel even though the fishing was slow. Finally at about 3:00 this girl bit. She ended up going 29 lbs 15 ounces. Just not quite 30! It’s my biggest ice lake trout ever and my second biggest lake trout period.
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What luck, to catch a gimps of a "Double Rainbow".
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What luck, to catch a gimps of a "Double Rainbow".
Oh boy had me holding my sides laughing 😝
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Going through my mid morning bait wiggle and my line marker was gone, a quick jerk and we were off!! 40 minutes later on 8# fluorocarbon leader I was able to wrangle this monster topside!!! Great day (https://postimg.cc/3kDmX72c)
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Few more days to enter!
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Great pics everyone
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The kiddo ready for his first ice season this year
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Had a great time last year on Crystal Lake with the wife fishing for smelt!
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Bucket of yellows! After many trips/years up to Clear Lake we finally figured out the yellow bass. One guy would be hole hopping with a camera and shouting to the other to get over to the hole with his pole when the yellows moved in. This went on for a good couple of hours. I can't imagine what this circus looked like from afar. People surly had to wonder what was going on!
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My first time out with my little buddy. He is hooked on the ice
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My first time out with my little buddy. He is hooked on the ice 4 years old
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My first time out with my little buddy. He is hooked on the ice
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Was fishing with a group of buddies we had a good morning bite for a couple hrs. It slowed way down so we started trying new jigs and moving around.
I was messing with a buddies Jaw jacker that kept getting hit but no luck. I gave up on it went back to my rod. I noticed my buddy was walking back to his hole with rod in hand thinking he was just switching rods.
He dropped new jig down n hooked up. I ran over to help n noticed more line and ice jigs all over. I pulled my hand back to avoid getting hooked. We just pulled fish onto ice by main line. I grabbed the extra line and pulled on it,it had some weight to it. The rod came through the hole with weed covering reel. After studying what had happened. We figured out that the reel got stuck in weeds preventing fish from getting to far away. When me friend dropped new jig Down it hooked the line that had fish on it. Funny n crazy luck. We laughed for hrs.
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The sky reflecting the ice.
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This picture was taken on a New Hampshire lake during our largest ice fishing derby. The day before had wind gusts over 50 mph. The shanty was actually chained to the ice. At sunrise the next morning this was the calm after the wind storm.
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This picture was taken on a New Hampshire lake during our largest ice fishing derby. The day before had wind gusts over 50 mph. The shanty was actually chained to the ice. At sunrise the next morning this was the calm after the wind storm.
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Sometimes you catch em (me) sometimes you don’t (my brother). Either way the experience is priceless.
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1982 3 HP Ice King auger & Bell Star helmet out on the hardpack !
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Nice jumbo perch!
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My fishing partner John with our 80 perch
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'twas the day after Christmas, and on the hardwater
not a person was out there, except me and my daughter
everyone else stayed home, playing with presents inside
we had the lake to ourselves, open ice far and wide
the tipups were set in the ice holes with care
in hope that big perch or pike would be there
it was so silent that as we set our fourth tipup
we heard the flag on the second one whip-up
she hauled in this pike that put up a big fight
what a great day, to start the season so nice
so Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
tight lines everyone, stay safe on the ice !
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Good stuff guys! Last day to enter. :tipup:
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Jan 11 2019
Hour drive,Got to the public launch at day break. Got to our spot, then people started rolling in. I would say 20-30 people came out around us. Caught a few crappie, No one else was getting anything. Then literaly everyone left within 3 hours. Lol Me and wife looking out window, I think everyone left? Lol Wow! little bit of blank look, head scratching at each other! Lol
At about noon, bam! Me and my wife limited out in under 2 hours. 50 total! Took pic at 2:22 pm, got stuff packed up and started heading in. People seen them fish and just hauling butt out there (along with few friends we know) No one got anything after we left!
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I spent every weekend of the 2018 season, and 2019 season in search of a trophy.
If I didnt have large hooks and heavy leader in the water, I had my hali jigs bouncing my favorite bait pond in search of jumbo golden shiners.
While most were using big dead smelly baits, I stuck with my gut and naturally presented my lethargic 8" golden. Mid morning, all the 2 hour rides at 4 in the morning, all the jigging, keeping my baits alive, all paid off with this 21 pound brute. Season(s) made!
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I spent every weekend of the 2018 season, and 2019 season in search of a trophy.
If I didnt have large hooks and heavy leader in the water, I had my hali jigs bouncing my favorite bait pond in search of jumbo golden shiners.
While most were using big dead smelly baits, I stuck with my gut and naturally presented my lethargic 8" golden. Mid morning, all the 2 hour rides at 4 in the morning, all the jigging, keeping my baits alive, all paid off with this 21 pound brute. Season(s) made!
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Very nice! Congrats
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very nice ;D
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What is it about this silly sport we are so enthralled with, punished over and over with weather patterns and lockjaw that brings us back. The ultimate game of bingo where the holes we drill are our chips, and structure definitions are the letters, trying to string together a sentence that spells fried walleye on the family table. Sometimes, it is just the simple gift of sun reflecting off that rod tip, surrounded by deafening solitude, yearning for that elusive tap tap.
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Awesome entries everyone! Thanks for to everyone who posted to get us all pumped for the season. Great stories and beautiful scenery! Hang on while I go over all the pictures and stories on here and fb again. I'll select my 10 for the final member vote and post back here soon.
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The winners are...
https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=372471.msg4023385#msg4023385