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Salmon,I was on LS on Thursday, still 16 inches of good ice on the east side of the lake (obviously away from the inlet channel. A good bit of slush/watery mess though some spots climbed darn near my boot top. Pretty much soup at this point. That said, seen some nice bows lately.Cheers,Keith
Toadie and I got the house out of the parking lot and home yesterday. The house towed good and the bent axle trailer made it home too. Worse part was trying to flag people around who felt the urge to tell me I had a bent axle. Know they were just trying to be helpful, but thought it was apparent in knew since the trailer was empty and going slow.While I was waiting for Toadie I met Guinea. Had a nice chat, very nice lady. Hope she got into the fish. Waiting for her report. Hoping to get out this week for some perch and crappie.
Steph good to see you back we were starting to worry about you. Captain Black thought that you were in "The Witness Protection Program".
2/26/17This morning i got up around 2 am and couldn't go back to sleep. Decided to go out and pull the houses back to the boat launch. 36F out but the ice had stiffen up, great time to pull em off. Took Ladybugs house first to the launch without a hitch. Then back for mine but had to use the GPS as it was dark out and couldn't see. Notice along the way, several holes opening up here and there, some big as 14".My log house was high and dry but there was a good puddle underneath with 1 of my tie down holes opened up to around 8" (started out at 4.5"). Ice looked terrible, dark gray and black. Wind was whipping too. Yanked the house to the boat launch but just as i was getting there a huge gust blew the bob house around and spun the Argo around. Did a quick 360 in the dark and ended up facing the same direction. Continued on....Had both bob houses in the launch by 4:30 am. Psycho and Tippin showed up around 6:30 am and they started in on retrieving theirs. Ice was tight so pulling with wheelers was easy but getting across the launch was starting to get tricky with the ice breaking up. Managed to get Tippin's, Psycho, Scruffy and Laker Taker's house off the ice today without a hitch. Troutfreak and I think Frog decided to keep their houses out there this week and fish. The boat launch is pretty much junk now.Rest of the day was spent loading houses onto trailers and taking em home. So Bobhouse fishing is done for this season however the season isn't over yet. Back to the portables.
Shobizz and I spent the day off Cummings trying for bows and lakers...got zilch.Wind was wicked as it gets trying to blow the popup down to the BIG CATCH.Figured out where the 4 "extra" ice anchors go after fighting the wind picking up and shifting the popup around.Ahhh that's what those 4 grommetted straps are for!Fixed that situation! Duh.Saw one smallmouth that came in and thumbed its nose at my jig and Shobizz saw 2 lakers just cruising in the shadows...very silty in this particular spot. Visibility was not ideal down there. Had a radio on but vewy vewy quiet (as Elmer Fudd wild say) Tomorrow's another day!
80 hour week completed.... now time to trailer up my stabbin cabin on Saturday haha. Is there still a chance to fish for rainbows on the sourhern end of the lake?
Hey Outdoorlife, yes you can fish the south end. Your houses are alright too in the parking lot. no problems that i am aware of. Hopefully see you and ZZ this weekend.
Funny you mention the extra ice anchors. We had a kid in our group leave his pop up out overnight. We woke up the next day and it was gone. The tie down straps broke and just the anchors were left behind.
Ha! I can certainly understand that!
The best part was it was his dad's pop up!He did take pictures of how the straps broke and is trying to get a refund. I have the same one as him (Bass Pro Extreme Arctic Angler). I'm keeping my eye on that for sure.
I'm on my 3rd season with the same pop-up, really for 199 you get what you pay for. I think as far as hub style shelters go clam,eskimo,frabil, etc I wouldn't recommend leaving them set up on the ice overnight. Regardless of who makes it if you get 40 or 50mph gusts which aren't uncommon on our big lakes at night it's going to cause the hub to collapse and eventually get pretty beat up.there's a trade-off between portability and durability. I don't think I'd leave anything out unattended for an extended period of time unless it was a hardside anchored with 2X4's and ratchet straps or something similar....and we've all seen even some of them break free and go for a ride. a 1" section of nylon strap is only going to go so far.
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Cool video. Thanks for sharing. Are some of the portions with the drone shown at 2x speed?