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RTF that was me my buddy and afew followers and yes we did walk all that way lol, put on the miles today, drilled alot of hole from 160 to 100ft looking for the agressive ones. We found afew and it was agood day out there today. Not sure id want to drag my sled that far with alot of snow though im beat lol
Zach are u going after lakers or walleye i would love to get into those walleye just never really fished for them looking for someone to give me some pointers.
I may be an "odd Duck", but it never bothered me when people set up close to me. I always looked at ice-fishing as a social activity, and not acompetition. As long as someone didn't drop a line down the hole I was fishing in, I never cared how close someone fished near me. I swearthat listening to some fishermen that they must have a deed for part of the lake; "chill out" and enjoy the company of fellow fishermen. I can understand someone being upset hunting if someone is too close, but really what harm does it cause ice-fishing?
listen, yes nobody owns the lake but I HATE when I have a group of us out there and someone decides to set up 10 yards away. today we had a group of 5 and had couple more join us and ASKED if we minded they join us( thanks System and Ryan? I think?) totally cool dudes!! if I'm alone I don't mind so much but if I'm with a group I came to fish with them and not some stranger/s. no I haven't had that many tip-ups go off by a fish taking a run, but when you fish on Otsego the lakers like to take big runs and this is a lake I WANT my space.
I agree haha . i dont like fishing bymyself,but when out with my dad or a couple friends i usually make the extra treck so we have room to set up with space. Its a little more peacefull to me,plus i like to spread out a bit,not into putting tip ups 20 ft apart. always had better luck when ya cover a little ground. Yesterday for example..we trecked over an hour to have some space and spread tip ups 50 ft apart. In mid morning i had nobody within a half mile,by the time i left i had 4 or 5 guys surrounding my few hot tip ups. SOME even fishing my two jigging holes a drilled next to them. Just saying personally,i like my shanty to be closer to my tip ups than other peoples lol. I understand some people want to chat and dont mind fishing 20 30 ft away. not saying im antisocial,im all about talking to some fellow fisherman on the ice. just saying some people have no respect for other fisherman on a 9 mile lake.
im all about talking to some fellow fisherman on the ice. just saying some people have no respect for other fisherman on a 9 mile lake.
no way...on otsego of all places! Thats a real shame that its getting to be that way, especially this year for some reason...