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The annual 10 day trip is complete. The weather was a tad bit brutal at the end of the trip and I have no doubt that a day or two we reached thirty to forty below with the wind chill. Fortunately for us the fishing prior to the cold front rocked and we caught some real pigs this go round. Two Pike over 20, three Walleyes over 12, one Walleye over 11 and on over 10. Plenty of other Pike and Lakers ranging from low to high teens and plenty of smaller Walleye and Ling that we did not photo. The Ling ran small this year with our best about 8 lbs. Here are some photos for your viewing pleasure.Me with three Walleye I caught. Two were over 12 and one was over ten(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)Then my buddy Duker with one of his big Walleye. Duker had another big one I must not have photographed.(Image removed from quote.)Some nice Northerns. The first bunch is Dukers catch. One of these fish was 21 lbs and another was 22 lbs although I cant remember which was which. The rest were in the mid to high teens.(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)My buddy Pete (Pickeral Pete) with a dandy Northern.(Image removed from quote.)Me with some nice Northerns I caught.(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)And another of my friends, Brian, who was a late comer on the trip, looking stylish in his ice survival suit and holding a decent Pike.(Image removed from quote.)Then a few Lakers. Duker with the first couple.(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)Then Pete with a very frozen Laker. It was so cold, this fish was frozen solid in 10 minutes.(Image removed from quote.)Those were pretty much the highlites of the trip, or at least the fish that I had the presence of mind to photograph. The other interesting occurrance was when the Coyotes ran a big Mulie buck onto the ice into the middle of the bay we were fishing. This occurred between our night and morning runs. This deer was at least a half mile from any shore line and really fought for his life. Unfortunately he lost the battle. The photos are a bit graphic but it depicts a real life mother nature struggle between the strong and the weak and between predator and prey. If it makes anyone feel any better, we did avenge this killing with some Coyote killing of our own.(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
Here's Troll's last year's trip:http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=22126.0And I believe this is his 2004 trip:http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=11840.0Warning... Troll's pictures are HIGHLY addictive... I've caught myself at times staring for hours on end PS - Search tool works wonders too!!!
Those are huge good job you guy's nice pic's.
one other thing, if there's any of you guys from mn or anywhere else for that matter that wanna meet up, i'd be more than happy to split gas w/ ya! heck, i might even just let ya ride for free. it'd be nice to have some accompaniement on a long trip like that!
Eastern Montana .