Does anyone know of any ice fishing tournaments this season???

[rjbreese]

New to this site, i wish i could go fishin with all you guys, i live in Knoxville, i mainly fish farm ponds, lake miami, (actually i won the 2005 ice tourn. at lake miami), rock creek lake, big creek, rathbun, ect... My question is does anyone know of any tournaments that are going on this year in Iowa?

[anderson_dc]

In your area there is the JDRF tournament which is usually the end of January or beginning of February. 

Also the Des Moines Ice Derby which is located at Easter Lake on the SE side of Des Moines and that is on Sunday February 7th.

[rjbreese]

yep, the JDRF tourn is the one that we placed first in on lake miami, and now they have it on rock creek we always hit that one, i think we placed 4th there last year, when is the one on easter lake???

[rjbreese]

is that ice derby on feb. 7th a tournament or just a get together???

[icerod]

Hey rjbreese I do Know of a tourny on Jan 9th, IGL Bonanza on Spirit Lake.  Here is the web site for more info: icelanders.com/ICE-Events.html   I live in Melcher and fish the same lakes you do. I also fish a lot of ponds.  When we get fishable ice, we should "hook up" or  I might see ya out on one of the lakes mentioned.

Heres to hard warter and tight lines.

[rjbreese]

ya man i only live up the road from ya on HWY g76 lets go i usually go by myself 1/2 the time anyway, lookin forward to it.

[mydogcarl]

Also the Des Moines Ice Derby which is located at Easter Lake on the SE side of Des Moines and that is on Sunday February 7th.

Mark,
Is that a definite date and location for the Ice Derby?  I haven't seen anything on it yet.  I was hoping they would consider moving this to a different lake...  guess I'll stock up on some shad lures 

[bassrat]

the lehigh fire dept puts on a pretty good one on brushy creek....it's usually the second weekend of january, safe ice permitting.

[brittlab]

Mark,
Is that a definite date and location for the Ice Derby?  I haven't seen anything on it yet.  I was hoping they would consider moving this to a different lake...  guess I'll stock up on some shad lures  

Yes it's definite as far as I know. lots of walleyes to be caught too 

[brittlab]

Hey rjbreese I do Know of a tourny on Jan 9th, IGL Bonanza on Spirit Lake.  Here is the web site for more info: icelanders.com/ICE-Events.html   I live in Melcher and fish the same lakes you do. I also fish a lot of ponds.  When we get fishable ice, we should "hook up" or  I might see ya out on one of the lakes mentioned.

Heres to hard warter and tight lines.

I pasted the link and got no info..

[rjbreese]

the lehigh fire dept puts on a pretty good one on brushy creek....it's usually the second weekend of january, safe ice permitting.

:thumbsup:do you have any contact information and or specific dates of the one this year, i have never fished brushy but have heard alot of good things about it.

[rjbreese]

In your area there is the JDRF tournament which is usually the end of January or beginning of February. 

Also the Des Moines Ice Derby which is located at Easter Lake on the SE side of Des Moines and that is on Sunday February 7th.

just spoke with a gentleman at easter lake and he told me that the fishing derby on easter lake is not a tournament but rather a gathering and it is on sunday feb. 21 from 1pm-4pm

[anderson_dc]

just spoke with a gentleman at easter lake and he told me that the fishing derby on easter lake is not a tournament but rather a gathering and it is on sunday feb. 21 from 1pm-4pm

The gentleman must have mixed up his outings/derbys.

It isnt 100% go quite yet Mike G but from the sounds of it they are very close to securing that date (Sunday Feb 7th - Superbowl Sunday) and the tournament will wrap up around noon again so people will have plenty of time to head off to Superbowl parties afterwards.  Same format as last year (big fish) and they are planing on having the rules meeting/free kids clinic the day before as well.

Shad lures?  I sure hope no one catches a shad again, my hand stunk for a day after handling that fish! 

[squ1rr31_]

We were going to do the Ice Derby last year but decided I'd rather not pay an outrageous fee and be monitored every second by fish-nazis. I just wanna go out and have a good time, I stick to low-key tournies.

[icerod]

I am sorry I got the wrong site. Here is the one I ment to put on.  iceleaders.com/ICE-Events.html  I hope this one works for you.

[anderson_dc]

We were going to do the Ice Derby last year but decided I'd rather not pay an outrageous fee and be monitored every second by fish-nazis. I just wanna go out and have a good time, I stick to low-key tournies.

I guess if you consider $15 an outrageous fee then you must not fish many tournaments.  Most of the entry fees for the ice tournaments that i have fished range from $30 all the way up to $70 and if you fish the NAIFC circuit they are quite a bit more then that.  The proceeds from the tournament go to the Des Moines Park and Rec Dept so i guess that isnt too bad of a cause either.

As for the being monitored every second by "fish-nazis" i guess i would be included in that group since i helped out with the tournament last year.  No one is looking over your back every second but periodically we would go out amoungst the anglers to see how they were doing and make sure no one was blatantly cheating.  Again, in every tournament i have fished in the officials do the same thing.

[rjbreese]

I guess if you consider $15 an outrageous fee then you must not fish many tournaments.  Most of the entry fees for the ice tournaments that i have fished range from $30 all the way up to $70 and if you fish the NAIFC circuit they are quite a bit more then that.  The proceeds from the tournament go to the Des Moines Park and Rec Dept so i guess that isnt too bad of a cause either.

As for the being monitored every second by "fish-nazis" i guess i would be included in that group since i helped out with the tournament last year.  No one is looking over your back every second but periodically we would go out amoungst the anglers to see how they were doing and make sure no one was blatantly cheating.  Again, in every tournament i have fished in the officials do the same thing.

sweet i will be there, $15-hell thats cheap, where can i get a entry form, sign me up

[brittlab]

We were going to do the Ice Derby last year but decided I'd rather not pay an outrageous fee and be monitored every second by fish-nazis. I just wanna go out and have a good time, I stick to low-key tournies.

if you weren't there how could you know how things are run? doesn't get more low key than the derby 

[mydogcarl]

I didn't see any 'fish nazis'...  now as far as 'local news nazis'...  that's a whole other story 

Thanks for the info guys 

[JimBobber]

I sure hope people's hands get to smelling like shad again.       Heck, you should have been in Zeke's truck on the way home. 

~Jim

[bassrat]

:thumbsup:do you have any contact information and or specific dates of the one this year, i have never fished brushy but have heard alot of good things about it.

i think duncombe gas and grocery is the only place to "pre-register"...if i remember correctly, costs $20 to get in and pays 3 biggest crappie, gills, perch, and eyes'...with a couple tagged eyes' worth big bucks....there's usually a soup supper for participants at the fire hall and a nice raffle that goes along with it...at this rate we'll be swimming in rather than walking on water at brushy by that time this year though...had the aqua-vu under a bridge at the north end today...still 48*...