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Title: 100+ fish night!
Post by: DTro on Dec 22, 2013, 11:56 AM
Great night on the ice last night!  Found a stack of fish in the first hole we drilled.  Dropped our first bait in the water at 4pm and caught them one after another for the next 3.5 hrs.    We lost count a few times, but quite confident it was over 100 caught.  Doing the math that meant a fish was coming up through one of our holes about every 2 minutes on average.

A few came home with me and will be made into a tasty Spicy Cajun recipe I make

Here's a video I put together:



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Post by: smitty0312 on Dec 22, 2013, 11:59 AM
Very Nice!!
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Post by: rabbittrapper on Dec 22, 2013, 12:19 PM
How many did you keep? How big was your biggest one?
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Post by: DTro on Dec 22, 2013, 12:22 PM
We only took home 5 total.  I like to do one or two meals each winter.

Biggest one was about 25"

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Post by: slamer58 on Dec 22, 2013, 12:50 PM
Great video......looks like your boy had fun.
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Post by: C.Tripp on Dec 22, 2013, 12:53 PM
very nice fish
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Post by: stripes on Dec 22, 2013, 12:55 PM
Good times!! Great to see kids out there enjoying the ice.
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Post by: jerrife on Dec 22, 2013, 02:11 PM
Good times!! Great to see kids out there enjoying the ice.

X2
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Post by: river_scum on Dec 22, 2013, 02:16 PM
great vid DTro! thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Webby on Dec 22, 2013, 02:32 PM
Great video with some nice fish! Congrats!
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Post by: nitram on Dec 22, 2013, 02:33 PM
 :clap:

Nice! Cant beat that.
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Post by: beerduck on Dec 22, 2013, 03:54 PM
you see that kid smile and hold that catfish   priceless for you  and me love it  what its all about  great video
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Post by: chevy rotbox on Dec 22, 2013, 04:03 PM
very nice boy had fun ;D
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Post by: lefty2053 on Dec 22, 2013, 04:18 PM
Great work on the Video. Kids always make it better.
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Post by: Purple Floyd on Dec 22, 2013, 04:34 PM
Sweet. Except now my son saw that and wants to try it. Is this anywhere near the Mankato area?
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Post by: bart on Dec 22, 2013, 04:43 PM
Awesome! :thumbsup:
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Post by: DTro on Dec 22, 2013, 07:03 PM
Sweet. Except now my son saw that and wants to try it. Is this anywhere near the Mankato area?

Thanks everyone, its a lot of fun, the guys are back out there again tonight and last i heard they were up to 60 fish.

These fish were caught on the Sauk River Chain near St Cloud.  Its absolutely crammed full of cats. 
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Post by: Corndog on Dec 22, 2013, 07:07 PM
Thanks for posting that video! Looks like you guys had a blast...
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Post by: Trouty on Dec 22, 2013, 07:12 PM
Awesome!  :icefish:
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Post by: sodussut on Dec 22, 2013, 08:17 PM
do you ever catch any other kind of fish?
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Post by: Smax on Dec 22, 2013, 08:26 PM
Wow great video. Thanks for putting it together.
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Post by: iceman1267 on Dec 22, 2013, 08:27 PM

Thanks for the great vid guys. I want to target more cats this winter always wondered if chicken liver would work now I  know. Thanks again.
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Post by: mrjohnny on Dec 22, 2013, 08:28 PM
SO,DID YOU CATCH THEM ON THE BOTTOM LIKE IN THE SUMMER?  GOOD GOING
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Post by: DTro on Dec 22, 2013, 08:28 PM
do you ever catch any other kind of fish?

 The Sauk Chain has lots of different fish and in some spots you will mix in crappies, walleyes and rock bass, but in this particular spot its all cats all the time.

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Post by: DTro on Dec 22, 2013, 08:32 PM
SO,DID YOU CATCH THEM ON THE BOTTOM LIKE IN THE SUMMER?  GOOD GOING

No these cats suspend from the bottom @ approx 30ft all the way up to 15ft and sometimes even higher.    If you see in the video, there is almost 15ft of solid fish below us.  It makes it pretty easy.  We usually just set our float somewhere in the middle of the school.  5-10ft off the bottom is usually the magic zone.

The bigger cats are usually a bit more solitary and you will catch less targeting the roaming ones, but we have fun with these big schools of 20"ers and every once in a while a 26 or 27 will stroll through.   
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Post by: Fishlip off the hook on Dec 22, 2013, 10:26 PM
Congrats glad to see the young lad having fun :clap: :clap:
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Post by: Jigmup on Dec 24, 2013, 02:43 AM
That was an absolutely awesome video. Great time on the ice for sure!
Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: mr.clean on Dec 24, 2013, 03:20 AM
Thank you for posting the video. I've heard the catfish bite can be fast and furious when you find the right spot your video proves this to be the truth. Only time I have caught catfish was on a tipup while fishing for other species. Good to see the next generation of Ice fishermen out having fun.
Steve
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Post by: jdog42 on Dec 24, 2013, 06:25 AM
That's awesome I love them days on the ice
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Post by: jfusco5598 on Dec 24, 2013, 06:37 AM
Love the video! Is that a Lodge or a Resort?
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Post by: hesseltine32 on Dec 24, 2013, 06:52 AM
Nice video
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Post by: paullo19 on Dec 24, 2013, 07:03 AM
Great video!Thanks for posting.
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Post by: DTro on Dec 24, 2013, 07:54 AM
Love the video! Is that a Lodge or a Resort?

That's a Lodge and IMO the best all around house on the market.  Sure you will pay extra, but man is that thing nice.   5 degrees out and we couldn't move the Big Buddy from low to med or we would get too warm (in sweatshirts).


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Post by: Sawtooth on Dec 24, 2013, 08:33 AM
If I didn't know better, I'd say that many fish marked at one time would put your flasher in danger of breaking.  ;) I've never seen anything like it.
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Post by: geekinsyde on Dec 24, 2013, 01:05 PM
Awesome vid!! 
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Post by: CavScout on Dec 24, 2013, 04:43 PM
Sweeaaaattt.   Looks like it was a great night!
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Post by: reddog11 on Dec 25, 2013, 01:10 PM
Cool