While fishing conditions have been less then ideal on the Samon River we've been doing the ice fishing gig out on Sandy Pond-
Everytime we go we have a blast! It always seems like a new adventure each day. I guess the pics can help tell the stories-
The star of the show- Davio ''perchinator'' Sanchez-
early ice we targeted sunnies but settled for perch
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enjoying some grubb while watching Fish TV
I think it was on the Perch channel
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we slowly honed our skills
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Every outing we seemed to scratch out a few meals
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it seemed the trend was that the perch were getting BIGGER!
By now Davio was setting the tip-ups all by himself and took this double header-
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this past weekend all the hard work hit pay dirt!
Davio took this nice 30'' northern on a jig pole w/ a rocker/minnow combo-6# test line.
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1st place youth pike on Saturday
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then 1st place youth perch on Sunday
off a jig pole w/ rocker/minnow
$50 more!
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along the way we found a crappie-
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we found Rick from Outech corp & some small eyes-
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we even found mom one day-
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we found slush & got stuck!-
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we found oreos and chocolate milk
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will make you look like a pirate-
ARRRR! MATEYS!
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Lots of great times and memories were made along the way.