Author Topic: 2013's Fish-N-Adventures on the ice (2/25 update) NEW PICS pg2** (Read 6463 times)

Fish-N-Adventures · « **on:** Jan 09, 2013, 01:44 AM »

Friday, Jan. 4th, 2013

First trip out on the ice for the 2013 ice fishing season. After an update of 3” of good black ice in the honey hole, I made sure that I got to the bait shop for the famous Wiggle Worm dozen. I packed up my small jet-sled with my tip-up gear and bait bucket, plus I had my big jet-sled with my jigging gear in it too. It must be funny to see me coming down the path with 2 jet-sleds in tow, 1 man with a train of jet-sleds. But, to tell the truth, it’s harder pulling if all the gear is in one sled as posted to spreading the gear out into two sleds. Plus, I can leave my tip-up gear and bait staged around my tip-ups and have the freedom of moving around with my jigging gear in another sled.

Ok, finally out on the ice, drill 7 holes and start to get my 5 tip-ups in. A good hour later I think I finally got all 5 tip-ups in the water, lol. It took forever to even get to the 4th tip-up, I constantly had two and three tip-ups up on the ice after catching, releasing and having to tend to another, Flag, it was an awesome start to the ice fishing season. At one point in the morning, I had 4 tip-ups out of 5 up on the ice.

I c&r’d tons of yellow perch and crappie, caught both on tip-ups and while jigging. I was using icicles (emerald shiners) for bait. Once they got bet up on the tip-ups after catching a fish on them, I was cutting them in half to use on the jig pole. I was using 4# line on my jig rod, tipping my Northland Forage Minnow with half icicle and as fast as I could get it down the hole, crappie customers were awaiting lunch.

So here is a mix of a few big ones from the day.

Tip-up Crappie

Jigging Crappie

And a crappie window

plowman · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 09, 2013, 06:00 AM »

You couldn't ask for a better day. Great pics.

huntny30 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 09, 2013, 06:02 AM »

Great pics, you are always on big Crappies!!!

reddog11 · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 09, 2013, 07:47 PM »

Nice fish.

Fish-N-Adventures · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 03:17 AM »

Monday, Jan. 7th, 2013

Second trip out on the ice, had to go back to the same spot as last Friday. It was a nicer day out and not a soul on the ice except me, but tons of holes and sign of the weekend rush. It was nice to just pop open holes with my boot and no need to drill new ones.
Unlike Friday, I was able to get all 5 of my tip-ups in the water and get to jigging. The reason why is because I was running big shiners, on the hunt for a big’n. I started out jigging with maggots and caught a few small perch and bluegills, but there were lots of fish just coming to investigate and not take my offering. So I changed back to my forage minnow and half minnow for a larger profile bait. It seemed to work much better. I even hooked into a big pumpkinseed using a minnow as bait, cool.

I had to move and move and move again to just find a hole that had fish under it. Once I finally found some, it was game on.

Then, as I’m pulling in a monster crappie and getting a measurement on it, I hear something/someone behind me. I look back and the game warden is walking up saying, “Wow, that is a nice crappie.” I reply “It sure is, by the way, would you mind taking a picture for me?” Game warden, “Sure, for a nice fish like that, no problem.”

I take one good close up picture and release. Yes, released it, the waters I was fishing on is C&R only.

Afterwards, we talk a bit and I show my fishing license, talk a little bit more about fishing spots and the idiots on the ice that have done thru the ice on quads and snowmobiles. And just like that, he walks away and I’ve got the ice all to myself again. I ended up catching a big perch on one of my tip-ups, but no luck with big toothy fish till I was about to pick up. That’s normally how it happens, finally got a fish on the end that pulls back. Not a monster but still a nice catch for waiting a few hours just for that FLAG to go off on a tip-up with big bait. I ended up with an almost 24” northern pike, a great way to end the day.

Fish On!

Whopper Stopper · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 06:29 AM »

Man those are nice. Great pictures.

WS

adkRoy · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 06:34 AM »

Those are some great fish. Nice job!

fishonone · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 07:57 AM »

sweet them are some nice pics

P Meyette · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 08:09 AM »

looks like a very fun day

just_a_beer_man · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 12:02 PM »

Keep it up!!

Fish-N-Adventures · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 11, 2013, 06:37 PM »

Quote from: just_a_beer_man on Jan 11, 2013, 12:02 PM

Keep it up!!

hope to get out Monday and catch some more.

jabers69 · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 12, 2013, 08:54 AM »

Looks like you had a good day

Otto · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 12, 2013, 09:00 AM »

Nice pictures and an awesome honey hole! Looks like you've got a great setup for all species there.

Bassman · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 16, 2013, 10:35 AM »

Great photos !

roundlakeNY · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 18, 2013, 02:37 PM »

Nice fish so far. We gotta meet up one of these days. Let me know next time you hit up "Kim's " maybe we can get on some Pike.

Fish-N-Adventures · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 31, 2013, 12:42 AM »

Monday, Jan. 21, 2013

My son had the day off from school and we had good ice so away we did go ice fishing. He was happy to be going but when we got there, he wasn’t so happy in a refresher coarse on tipups. So after I put in my 5 tipups, he still wasn’t keen on learning. 1st Flag, he wanted to get it, “Nope, you aren’t going to take the time to learn how to use them, this is my fish.”

And flag number 2 flies high, dad’s fish again.
Finally after I took all the glory, he finally was ready to take the refresher coarse. After learning how to sound, mark bottom, bait and set the tipup, we had another Flag, now time to learn how to take care of a Flag’d tipup.
Then it was all she wrote, dad letting son run and gun the tipups and we ended up with a great day of chasing flags and c&r’n lots of fun fish.

A nice fighting fallfish, lots of fun.

Then it was back to the perch.

A nice double, my buddy with a smallie and my son with a slab crappie.

My son let dad take a Flag and have a little fun too.

Then he was right back at it, perch after perch on tipups, what a great way to spend a day.

A fallfish for dad and a few last perch and crappie to end up a fine day on the ice. We fished from about 930a till 1pm and had a banner day.

Fish On!

IceRaider · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 31, 2013, 01:27 AM »

Nice Perch! And very cool to see those Fallfish. I've caught some of those before but I think I've mistaken some of them for Creek Chubs.

Whopper Stopper · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 31, 2013, 04:59 AM »

Great pictures!

WS

shsalchemist · « **Reply #18 on:** Feb 01, 2013, 01:24 PM »

Way a great season so far! Way to go!

chevy rotbox · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 01, 2013, 03:54 PM »

alsome,very nice

IcefisherSteve · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 02, 2013, 09:54 PM »

Great pics!

buckfordave · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 03, 2013, 10:46 AM »

very nice assorment of fish tight lines

emtorn · « **Reply #22 on:** Feb 03, 2013, 02:43 PM »

Those are some GREAT looking fish. Nice pics. Thanks

angryman101 · « **Reply #23 on:** Feb 03, 2013, 05:51 PM »

nice fish pics thanks for shareing

pike4some · « **Reply #24 on:** Feb 04, 2013, 09:40 AM »

Days like that are a blast. We had 2 trips like that. We finally had 10 min with no flag and were starting to complain as it felt way longer after having flags constantly.

slamminsam · « **Reply #25 on:** Feb 04, 2013, 10:05 AM »

Take me with you...I'll take the re-fresher course and tend to all the flags...please $:-\$ Nice job Dad!!! I can not wait until I can take my son out...it'll be real soon. You da' man.

Stutz · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 04, 2013, 10:30 AM »

Your having a good season..Great pics.

beerthirty · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 04, 2013, 11:52 AM »

good job! they are some slabs!!!!!!!!

Danmoeller · « **Reply #28 on:** Feb 05, 2013, 06:47 AM »

Nice panfish great eaters

ryan61389 · « **Reply #29 on:** Feb 05, 2013, 08:19 PM »

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