MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
I never stop fishing, ice, no ice. Doesnt matter. Where I like to ice fish isnt frozen and it isnt going to freeze.
I'll be chasing ice. I can fish open water all year. There is plenty of ice out in the Berks, but the quality I am seeing is not great. Sun is high. It's almost March. This is from the NW end of Pontoosuc this weekend. 8 1/2" total.
Right with ya. I think part of why I like ice fishing so much is the limited window you have to chase it. I was on almost a foot on Saturday. Beware the female EPO seems to be making her rounds more frequently than I've seen previously. She came out checked our licenses and was pretty pleasant. Even let one guy catch a break because he didn't have it on him or was able to pull it up on his phone. Nicely called into dispatch to confirm he had a current license. Been checked twice this year after never being checked in MA previously.
I guess I am different than both Keith and Mike. I dont care about guys who wont travel, I dont care about guys that do. All I care about is how I fish and how I deal with a season like this. However, there hasnt been an April fools day I havent ice fished in a long time. This season will be no different.
I don't really fish the small ponds out there, but do chase the toothy critters. There's been plenty of room on the big lakes except for tournament days. I've been out 13 times this season as a weekend warrior. Last trip was an overnight. I have traveled over an hour 1 way every time and spent about $20 in gas every trip. I think those are small prices to pay for doing what I love every weekend. I can understand those that live on the cape and travel 2+ hours to get out there. I wouldn't want to do that either. Everybody has their own threshold, I guess.All I know is the pike are putting on the feedback right now and they are getting fat with eggs. I love seeing a flag pop on a 12" dead bait. Can't get that on open water. I'll be in the Berks again this weekend
Spot on. I can chase ice or I can chase fish.
Best fishing of the season is coming, and yea, it's not over, this snow is a blessing .its hammer time.. and yea, I drive 4 hours each trip, and its worth every drop of gas I put in Silverado 2500.
Not sure I would say a blessing lol. Hides the hazards and insulates the ice from the cold. However, it looks like a lot more mixing going on so very wet icy snow will freeze up adding to the ice. But it's still hiding hazards .
It hides the hazards but keeps that March sun off of the crap snow ice..
I just got back from a couple of days fishing in N.H., and this thread is going south fast. Please don't reply to this thread if your going to trash someone. BJ
After ALL the trash talking that goes on in here and you think this post is going south??? I dont see any trash talking but there was plenty I sent you that you did nothing about. And yet we wonder why all the old timers from here are gone ...SMH
I've seen bans handed out on here for next to nothing but the guys writing "you're just lazy if you're not on ice every weekend" repeatedly on different threads have no consequences. Mods could have put a stop to those kind of comments when they started in early January but they have chosen not to so we'll keep hemorrhaging users who don't want to be insulted instead.