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Indiana => Ice Fishing Indiana => Topic started by: RoeBoat on Feb 02, 2019, 03:36 PM
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Waded through the straw hats and got a few today. Don't think there were any barn raising today.
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Sylvans gettin pounded like a road whore...way to make it happen though in the crowd!
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Yes it is, better get there early if you want to find a place to tie your horse!
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generally speaking I take mine right out on the ice with me
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That's the way I roll too!!!
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Waded through the straw hats and got a few today. Don't think there were any barn raising today.
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haha....think I was right next to you before we left. Did you catch a nice bass to take home to your wife?
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That's a picture of my buddy. He might have had a bass, not sure.
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:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Yes it is, better get there early if you want to find a place to tie your horse!
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mass carnage. lol
how much ice is recommended for my buggy/shanty with 1 horse power engine? do I still need to put address on it if it has a plate already?
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Was wondering if anyone knows how the ice is around gsp. Thought about making the 2 hour trip but would like to know what the ice was like. Thanks in advance
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It's crappy like everywhere else but there were guys on it last night!
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I'll be there in the morning, can't wait!
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good luck out there!
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Thanks
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Only 4 Amish weird.
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Hey RoeBoat how's the ice thinking about heading that way this afternoon? Hex
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About 5, really tight this morning but jumping around a bit in the sun. Shore ice heaved pretty good while we were out. Quit at 75, other 2 guys about the same. Pretty sure they're going to bite all day.
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Thanks for the update! Hex
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With those numbers, I can see why the beards are there. haha. GOOD LUCK
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Only about 8 guys out there this morning.
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It will be packed tomorrow lol I may be leading the pack lol
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Last weekend there were a lot of guys (mostly amish) on Saturday. The crowd was thin on Sunday (I imagine most of them if not all don't fish Sundays). Fished "Bradys" basin today and there weren't more than around 8 guys out there in the morning. That's not many for that much water. I've seen 200 on Summit on the same amount of ice.
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ROE BOAT, 75 WHERE DID YOU PARK YOUR BUGGY???? ???
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In the grass, next to the tree. Should be a pile there.
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pile frozen by now. you guys could play some road apple rugby between bites.
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Sure could. Can you imagine sitting there on your bucket and a frozen road apple puck comes screaming by? Or worse yet smacks you a good one. Reminds me about a scene many years ago watching some kids running behind the spreader playing catch the apples. Some things you just can't forget!
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That's quite the picture. I guess if you don't have all the electronics you gotta do something.
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That's quite the picture. I guess if you don't have all the electronics you gotta do something.
Oh they have flashers
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True, as good ss or better equipment than I. Shanties, flashers, and electric augers.
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And cell phones.
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Heading out there today after work if anyone else is.
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Be careful out there, that ice is getting a little sketchy. Some of it was starting to drill a little chunky last night. Guys were still racing there sleds on it, don't think that says anything about ice quality though! Edges were still holding good to the northwest. Bite wasn't the best last night but the crappie got active at dusk.
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Thanks roe! Got the spud and picks at the rdy just in case.
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Nice specks!
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Just eaters, nothing to write home about. I'd rather not eat them over about 12 anyway.
I can't get them to take a minnow to save my life. Lost one good fish on a dead stick, could have been a bass or walleye, didn't get to see it and a 4" caught itself and I didn't realize it was on until it popped out the hole!
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Just eaters, nothing to write home about. I'd rather not eat them over about 12 anyway.
I can't get them to take a minnow to save my life. Lost one good fish on a dead stick, could have been a bass or walleye, didn't get to see it and a 4" caught itself and I didn't realize it was on until it popped out the hole!
Black crappie tend to be more bug eaters than minnow eaters. Whites prefer minnows. I think.
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Yes, I think you are correct. We get them on minnows on this lake, usually the better ones. I just don't have much luck with them. They love racing past my tungsten and hitting the "high fly" tied above. Had 2 pairs of doubles.
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those are perfect eaters. thanks for sharing with us.
we do fine with minnows there but some days they just don't want to hit them. summer we jig or crank them up. always been great numbers there but few "hogs".
chum the hole at geanestrapons some night, if you want to tangle with some nice cats threw the ice!
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Got these guys last night and a bunch of dinks.
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One came out of no where and the other was at 4ft and didn't hit till I was at the bottom of the hole.
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Plenty of short fish out there this year. But I've got into those in years past also. I remember 5 years back or so I was counting between 20 and 30 shorts between keepers on Cain basin out in front of GSP.
As far as the crappie go, most we've had this year were in the 8-10 range with a few 12s. The biggest I saw along side a tape was 14.
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Got a mess out of 5 fow tonight. Only 2 of us out there. Would've had more crappie but I couldn't get my lantern lit!!
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Wtg roe!
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It's seems as though there are about a billion 6-7" gills in that basin this year. Not sure if that's due to the larger fish being harvested or if they are just in other areas of the lake adjacent to deeper water.
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My buddy and I will be out Saturday and may lake hop. Trying to do my research on navionics on where to go to see if it pays off a little more. Still pretty new at this but my kids love to fish and I'd like to teach them better, just on better ice lol.
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nice pile, bummer about the lantern.
isn't anyone getting any eyes out there? they should be stacking up back at brady's.
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I got some spoons and raps I've been meaning to try out. We are stopping to get minnows so let's hope for my first eye lol.
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shoot, use small perch or gills on those tip ups. that's what they are eating anyhow in there.
good luck to ya! hope to see a pic later of your 26"eye!
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Thanks for the advice! Yeah I'd love to catch a 26 since my fiancee has me beat from last year off summit lake. 21 inch
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Talked to a guy out there that claimed to have taken over 20 on shiners this season. I've seen a couple caught on panfish jigging poles. I've had some shiners down with no luck. Bass are thick. May put some bluegill down soon. Catching more bluegill with teeth marks than I am ones over 8"!
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yeah you better! lol
what about the perch? anyone catching any of those at all there?
I mentioned cats too. we used to get them after dark fishing for crappie there, threw the ice. sylvan has some chunky 12#+ cats also. im guessing most just snap lines. lol
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Might try tomorrow evening. We get a few perch over there but no numbers I assume due to no deep water being close. Always seem to get more perch on other basins. Been getting a few bullheads in the 10-15" range, no other kitties but not fishing for them. The bullheads come on panfish jigs. I hate it when I get broke off and just have no idea what it was! Happens to me several times every year out there.
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First one on the ice. Took 10 minutes after drilling a buddies hole. Keep ta posted
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Anything
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Caught me some dinks, a perch with the skin pulled back on it. We ended up leaving to go to Lower Long Lake so hopefully we will get more bites
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Back here for the night bite. Out of no where....
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Not a keeper but first ever walleye so ill take it
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Nice, buddy and I fished bradys, only 2 out there until late. I heard they shut down the parking at GSP due to trash, not sure if it's true. Wouldn't surprise me though, I picked a lot of trash off the ice this week, dead fish and cigarette butts everywhere. Maybe that's why there was not another person out there. Buddy and I kept about 40 a piece. 2 other guys came out late. Caught the fish in 4-5fow some right under the ice on red flies with no bait.
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that's too bad a bout GSP if true. maybe they are worried about the ice this late in the year?
thinking about it, that would be a good way for the locals to get access shut down somewhere, like that. most of the time that's not needed. the general public seems to do a good enough job trashing places. few years back I helped some friends put in a new dock. the next spring I was up there and noticed a bunch, I mean a bunch, of puncture marks all over it. people were using his dock in winter to access the ice with cleats on! totally ruined the surface of his expensive new dock. someone took a dump in his little boat setting on shore a couple years back too. I have seen guys in the store with cleats on also. that has to be good on it. lol had my trailor lights run into twice over the years, with no note or nothing. watched a guy run over, yes over(with the front of his monster 4wheeler truck) another guys trailer at lake George ramp, and drive off. no regard for anyone else's stuff seems to be the norm. you know they have to be thinking about it, but still do it anyhow. shaking head :(
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I was out there but the ice was talking to much so we left gps. I didn't see another sign besides signing in and stuff. When we got on about 10am there were 2 walking off. Went over to chain o lakes but didn't see anyone out there so went over to Lower Long Lake. The bank was open a bit at the ramp and I'm not using someone's dock to get on without permission so it was back to sylvan. The one thing I do hate about summit is yeah the trash. Went out the first time there and was tossing plastics from beemoths and beer bottles into my sled as I was walking to find a spot to fish. My buddies nephew came out for a bit and showed us up by hitting the gills on almost every hole he dropped down. I'll take a pic of the mess we got today some time after the lady and my kids get breakfast in them. We were in about 6 to 7 foe, and it really kicked off right before sun down. Left the lake about 9 or so. Got off the ice and realized my buddy didnt see that the shanty fell off the sled and had to go back lol. Man those sleds on that ice can really move with weight on them with little effort!
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The mess we got last night. The weird thing is we had to sort a lot but a lot of the dinks would come back up to the hole and wouldn't swim down.... not sure what was going on so instead of leaving dead fish on the ice we just keep the ones that didn't go down. No point in wasting fish.
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Nice mess! I got a couple questions about your post. First is,are you sure you were on Lower and not Upper Long? The reason I ask Lower has no public access, Upper does! And second were you still referencing Sylvan when you mentioned trash on Summit? If still referencing Sylvan I totally agree about the trash problem at that lake, year round! Sad the people up there don't seem to give a sh** about the place they fish. Their homes are probably in the same shape! Hex
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Yeah still ment lower long lake, his nephew lives out there so we have access to it with him. And i didn't notice to much trash at sylvan when I was out there at the places I was. Maybe it was just the places I fished or didnt see it while walking. Either way I usually pick it up but it's unfortunate that people will do that due to laziness.
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I never understood the lazyness of trashing the ice. I'm a smoker and I always drop the hots off my smoke and the butt goes in my sled...
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Went to Sylvan and parked at GSP Sunday morning, no issues; was surprised to find no one else there. Walked down to the lake fished multiple spots, shallow and then moved to deeper water. Not much luck, a few lookers and finally got a small crappie top side. Did not see any trash on the path or on the ice. I'm sure folks picked up after those that don't know how to pack their trash out...
Left around 10 AM at which point one other guy had arrived at the parking lot. From there went over to Cree lake but didn't do any better, got a small bass top side.
Going to give it one last go this weekend chasing toothy critters up north, a combo of tip ups and jigging a rattle trap ought to do. After that, time to get the long rods ready...
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Must have been rumor about the parking over there. I only parked at GSP once this year early.
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that's good hear. I don't fish out of there much but good to hit every couple years. that's one place the frozen poop piles in the parking lot can trip ya! lol
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Someone catch one for me, I'm still trying to get out of this damn pine thicket!!!!
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hurry home we still got plenty ice. lol
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How much ice do you have? And is it raining there... Pouring buckets here...
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with all the rain and wind, will prob be pulling away from edge!! time to get long poles ready!
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Got to be close to being over and done till next season.
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Home now, buddy got a mess out there today. Maybe I can make it out somewhere tomorrow and blow around.
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yea my son and i want to go, but we will see what the rain and wind does. hoping to get out one more time,
but not gonna take chances if ice is pulled away from shore.