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ALL HAIL THE NEW KINGS OF THE POND ..... Me and Jimmy , Team 1st place Well the day started off rough , My auger guard failed yet again , 8 inch Nils , easily the worst guard on any auger ever . Slipped off and cut the rubber band that holds it on .... and my transducer cable to my Vex .... So now I'm facing a whole day fishing old school Actually I kind of enjoyed it to be honest ... not a habit I want to keep but it forced me to pay attention all the time , not just when I had a mark . And I did not get as discouraged when I saw no marks . Like all great champions thru time , I overcame adversity and prevailed ..... With a bit of help from Boggy after I felt I had a comfortable lead I called Lance to see how he was doing ..... He was stuck on 1 In the interest of sportsmanship I invited him and Carrie over , He spread the word to HT and Coach and we had ourselves a nice little group ! After we enjoyed a really nice victory dinner and drinks at SPSH , I had the Broiled Seafood Platter on Lance's recommendation , and it lived up to the hype ! Best piece of Haddock anywhere
Nice meeting a few of the ice shanty members out there during the derby. I had a terrible day, a plethora of issues plagues me from my jig rods, tip ups , to my shanty and a very very disagreeable team partner ( the wife). All in all i was glad i parked a good 20 minute walk to nearest toilet, that gave me 40 minutes or so of peace and quite, i love my wife, but i do not think she is an ice fisher that is positive. Still had a good time, awesome door prizes, and thanks to all the sponsors. Probably head out tomorrow on my own, just my auger, pail, and some lines. Thanks everyone who hosted the event and to all the participants! Congrats to everyone that won and are still cleaning fish!
Wow... I feel kinda bad for ya dude. My wife loves to fish on the ice with me. It's our "personal time" together away from the rest of the world.....including our children. As a matter of fact, she made a comment to me (around a couple friends) on the ice this morning........regardi ng a comment I made and she "isn't on the ice to be a mans B!!tch, If someone wants to hear a woman gripe, then go home and listen to it" She was one of the dudes today......One thing I love about that woman.
We missed you bud. I really missed taking that prize money from you HAHA. The bite wasn't as good as past years, but with Eddy's help we managed to pull some decent perch out of the pond. It is getting tougher to stave you PA guys off but I can always bring in a ringer like Eddy to help me so watch out for next year..
Dont get me wrong, she did not complain once! But she did inform me that she would rather be baking or something, LOL. I am proud that she was my partner, just sorry i couldt put her on the fish like i did my friend friday, oh well! Taking my daughter out today, she will bring her ice skates, and hopefully i will fill my pail! Your wife did seem to be gunho, you guys looked cute it matching fishing bibs!
My 13 yr old daughter and i went out, brought the blood hound to tow the gear. It was nice about 12:30 one o'clock. We were fine unti i set up the shanty and the wind caught it with me inside! The hound was hooked up to her harness to the gear sled, my daughter had her hand in the loop of the leash , in between the hound and the sled. About 50 yards later i managed to work my gerber out and jam it into the ice as i was on my belly in the shanty, as I dug the gerber into the ice with ice chips flying in my face, i happened to see my blood hould hauling butt to "save"daddy, of course she was towing my daughter, and the jet sled. Needless to say, that was painfully funny! Once we got set up the weather changed and got cold. My daughter brought her skates, but decided to stay in the shanty. I put one trap out, my feet and a cloudy sky were the last thing i saw after setting it up, thought i might have broke my wrist. Anyway, get jigging in the shanty, pull up a nice fat perch, the daughter says "I think i have something". So she sets the hook on a 28 inch pike. I took over and got it in with my 24 inch jig rod, with no steel leader. Got another nice perch. After that nothing. Folded everthing up at 5 and got out of there.
Tommy and Josh, Now you guys know why I sit on a pail eh?
My boy and I fished the pond sunday....seems as though that pond gets worse every year. Used to be able to take the family out for the day and bring home 15-20 really nice perch. We didn't fish it at all last year, only been there once this year and will probably be the last time for awhile. I don't need big numbers, would like to see a few larger perch now and then!! The wind wasn't too bad sunday...just COLD!! Titelines to all!--KP Congrats to DD and boggey on your derby win!! WTG BOYS!!
North?...on the pond?..or, further north...like, in another county? We fished all over that pond. hit all 12 waypoints I have stored from previous outings. We were on that spot, you mentioned when you texted me!! Funny how I already knew that spot !!