MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Lakers. Ya. I pretty much won't go after anything else. Might have a shot at a 20lber on this next trip.
heard you guys marked some massive ones last weekend. hopefully with the panoptix you can coax them into biting.
Caught...not just marked . Ive been lazy about posting pics...maybe end of season.But ya...it landed today:You know which lake ill be on this evening.
So I pick out a lake I can easily drive to and I try it out.First trip conditions were horrible and I wasn’t there for long. Second trip I marked a bunch, played the chase game, caught two or three and lost a substantial fish. I’m psyched.. in it to win it.Third trip I bring a buddy and nuthin. Buddy senses my enthusiasm and agrees to go a second time. One mercy smallmouth on a tip up but that was it.Two days later I do a solo trip and cover seven miles of water. Hit 6’ down to 60 feet. Fished next to vacant shanties I figured were chumming and every inner curve and point I could find and walked three miles back to the car in pitch black (that was awesome actually) .... lots of perch but don’t think I marked a single laker.**** lakers. Yes, im going back first chance I get (prob Wednesday) but I don’t think my buddy is on board for any future trips and I honestly wouldn’t ask him to.This is a public service message from someone with a problem.Thanks for listening.
Good luck. I was there Sunday and it was super slow.
Nothing some green light cant fix.
This rollercoaster of emotions and continuous letdowns pretty much sums up the excitement of fishing for me. If you can't find peace and joy on the days when you don't catch any, then in my opinion you are fishing for the wrong reasons. I have had my fair share of skunk days, slow days, medium days, and the occasional fire hot day. I'd say you have the drive and that is what gets you that fish you never forget and plenty of fishing trips you will never forget. For me, when I am not catching fish I drop down every single thing in my tackle box. My most recent laker trip was discouragingly slow. 1 laker between two of us on a two day trip. Marked a few others but never had them hit. We punched over 40 holes and only marked fish in 1 of them. The one that I did end up catching was on the biggest metal spoon I had (was a deep water trolling spoon, not even an ice fishing spoon) and I was slamming it on the bottom. Fish didnt even show up on the flasher he was so low to the bottom in 55 FOW. It was also the middle of the day (that time when lakers "dont eat") but I think I just happened to piss him off enough or he thought it was an easy big meal, not sure.Keep after it. If you want to catch lakers, think like lakers. Learn when they eat, what they are eating, where they hide, where they feed, where they rest, what colors they like, what scents they like (store bought raw shrimp landed me my only fish last trip), what size they want. And remember that all of it will change as soon as you think you figured it out Be a student to the fish as your teachers. But most of all, enjoy it. Ice fishing is a ridiculously silly thing to do. It can be incredibly fun or incredibly frustrating, but it is always super silly when you think about what we are actually doing.Gearing up, driving through crappy weather conditions, then packing all of our gear through those crappy weather conditions onto a frozen lake. Drill holes through ice. Drop a lure down on a tiny little rod while sitting on bucket in the middle of the winter and staring into a hole. The entire time cursing, begging, bribing, praying, and dreaming that we get to hook up and pull a fish onto the ice. Enjoy it