MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Okay, marathon run up to Chaumont yesterday.....Awake and out by 3:30am and home at 10:30pm. Ice was 24 plus inches and trucks everywhere, place was a zoo. Dink Perch all day long kept us awake and busy, no jumbos or anything I would even want to keep. Racer was the only one to catch an eye, and it was a dandy. Biggest yet and obviously his personal best. Congrats Racer......measured in at 29 3/4 just a hair under 30 and weighed 13LBS. Got checked by DEC twice, once as he basically ran his sled into my shanty and jumped off only to catch Racer and I sleeping (lol) and the other at the ramp on the way in. Nice work to those guys. Heres the pics:
took my grandson and son-in-law to bacon wrap city [sandy pond] his first outting at 4 yrs. bait inspection , the fish pose and he laid a Jimmy Houston on a fish which I wasn't quick enough with the camera ,grrr great catch Racer
(Image removed from quote.)well i got lucky this morning out of Taft with not going thru totally with my machine. i hit this nice jem just SE of williard island over 24 feet of water. 43.13.944N - 75.56105W. put the skull and bones on you GPS people. let this be a lesson to any newbies that there is never any real safe ice. i drilled thru 20" of ice 10 feet from that monster after
Wow HT, You're lucky it didn't go down. Glad it worked out.Thanks again for all the comments everyone. Now that some time has passed, I'm really having mixed feelings about keeping that magnificent fish. I't so easy to get wrapped up in the moment. I'm kind of wishing we just took some good photo's, weight and measurements and let her go. Too late for that now so she's gonna occupy a space on my wall for sure. Has anyone had one mounted before? Skin or replica? What do you all say? I'm new to anything like this but thinking replica. Fred,Way to go taking the grandson out. Priceless memories for everyone.
Haven't posted in a while... Basically because I don't have much to add to what everybody else is saying and doing. Like lots of other guys have said, the fish have been pretty moody lately. Lots and lots of sniffers. Besides the occasional flurry, the solo flyers have been hard to coax.Like Snagger says...I try to forget that the bottom huggers are there, and keep fishing for the biters, but when the biters are scarce... A couple tricks that I do for moody perch...sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. One thing I do is bring a 8 ounce lead weight tied to an old baitcaster reel with Dacron on an old rod broke off at the first eye. When it gets slow, I drop it to the bottom and frantically pound the bottom with it. Another trick I try during slow times, is when I hook a perch (preferably a small one), I don't reel it right up. I pull on it and make him fight around down there. Sometimes this calls other fish in and gets them going. I do this when jigging smelt. Works great for that.Another thing is to hook a fathead through the lips with a tiny jig head and send it right to the bottom. Let the minnow go right in the mud. Leave your line slightly slack. Sometimes perch will pick it out of the mud even though they won't take it otherwise. You can watch your line to see if it goes tight.Sometimes one of the tricks works...sometimes it doesn't matter what you try. The smallys are starting to get pretty active now. Here's one from yesterday...
well i got lucky this morning out of Taft with not going thru totally with my machine. i hit this nice jem just SE of williard island over 24 feet of water. 43.13.944N - 75.56105W. put the skull and bones on you GPS people. let this be a lesson to any newbies that there is never any real safe ice. i drilled thru 20" of ice 10 feet from that monster after
it amazes me that those hazzards out there every where on the ice all over the lake. there was 500 snow mobile tracks that headed east to west and i was heading south towards the drop and i hit that head on? lol
ouch.......29.75 barometer out there, could be painful out there.been running a power auger last 3 trips ......been keeping notes, very interesting results, drill one quick hole, guy 100 feet away grabs a fish, takes about 20 minutes usually for hole calm down to get action, drill multiple holes for multiple guys, sometimes area goes dead, other times it doesn't, haven't drilled multiple holes in a walleye area just perch spots... had a camera down there, fish really don't jump when its started, but boy they don't like machines like wheelers or sleds, there gone and don't come back if someone drives on top of you.
something like this jim, my pounder from last yr, got a better one this yr... I think it helps me fight bordom more than the fishing.. &feature=youtu.be
Heres a few random shots I took, nothing organized like group shots or end of day catches just a few as I was sitting out there enjoying myself.This one I thought was cool, heaven"......
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