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KFS is renowned for trophy BG - really a special place. Those CNBG [copper nose] are beautiful fish, but I'm still partial to our Northern BG. In Fisherman has done a few stories on them...if I could raise BG to that size I'd be ecstatic. I'm working on a trophy BG/YP pond right now - selecting the top 1% fish from each year's recruitment and stocking only Male BG and Female YP. My hope is to have a fishery where every fish caught, one day, will be a NE Master Angler [10"+ BG and 13"+ YP]. So far have 100 Male BG stocked around 7-9". Work in progress - long way to go to catch the KFS brutes!
I don't know...sounds a little canned... and in my opinion, those fish shouldn't count towards "wild" fish records at all. And, as small as the lake would be, it's truly fish in a barrel. I would be as impressed with a 1.5 pound gill from a private trophy lake as someone holding 10 pheasants from a SD ranch hunt: not at all. IMO...getting out alone (not shantytown fishing), doing some homework, being the only tracks on the ice, and most of all....hauling limits to a cleaning house and listening to people talk about "slow" fishing is what it's all about. I get that not everyone has time...and this is what canned hunts are for. Most people don't understand that it's rare to take a 3 day trip and set up on the first day and plop down on fish. Vague reports (15 feet in ____Bay) and other advice from locals should be taken with a grain of salt. Watch the Bitter Lake cam. People will start streaming out to an area in front of the ramp...half dozen...dozen...40...t hen 75 anglers will fish shoulder to shoulder damn near. Nuts. The best part of ice fishing is done from the computer and topo maps. I wouldn't mind a local guide (local first...guide second) for my first day on a new lake. But after that, I like to do it alone. If you are only able to fish 4-5 days a winter....yes, that trophy pay-for-play thing might be a solution. I would feel very different though about catching a 2 pound perch from a glacial public lake than weighing one in at the trophy club house and writing a check for it. I'm 20 miles from the nearest fishable lake in Wayne, NE but I seem to make time. Guess the theme here is..."SO MUCH DELICIOUS WILDLIFE...SO LITTLE TIME AND GAS $".
$350 - $500 per day? Hell no. Keep that trophy in a can to yourself. I like working for the few master anglers I catch. You know what comes with that hard work? Pride!