tobin lake season finale

[MeadowPikeman]

made or hopefully annual season windup trip tp tobin got about 3 full days fishing in. very very slow as far as action goes but when we got em it made up for it. had some real heartbreakers to. so many freight train hits on the tip ups that we missed. lost fish in the logs, lost fish at the edge of the whole etc. i'm sure we long distance released a few 20 lbers overall though a good trip as we had no fish under 11 lbs and the majority were from 13-17 lbs. just would have been nice to break 20 a few more times, my brother in law did get a new PB with the big fish of the trip a 46.5" the was pushing 28 lbs. gotta love the new slot, only one legal fish and it was a 46.5".

[spoxick]

are those allform the same day ?

[pascoag icefisher]

Thats impressive!!!
great job

 

[MeadowPikeman]

3 days, one trip.

[FishinAddiction]

You guys got it tough at Tobin. Whats the legal length now? I wish they would implement a larger size limit here in Mass. Awesome way to end the season.

[MeadowPikeman]

no fish can be kept from 29.5" - 45.5" one over 45.5". total limit is down to 4 fish as well, not that you would ever catch 4 under 29.5 in one day anyways.  all barbless hooks now as well.

[FishinAddiction]

no fish can be kept from 29.5" - 45.5" one over 45.5". total limit is down to 4 fish as well, not that you would ever catch 4 under 29.5 in one day anyways.  all barbless hooks now as well.

That is great. Here it is only one fish but anything over 28". But the fish are so few and far between guys keep them all the time no matter what size they are over 28" or at least 10lbs or bigger. Which is usually around 34" on average around here. Some day MA may catch on to a better program.

[MeadowPikeman]

we are still lagging behind most provinces, where we fish in manitoba it is 0 fish over 29.5"

[Master Angler]

we are still lagging behind most provinces, where we fish in manitoba it is 0 fish over 29.5"

I was pumped to see them introduce this a couple years ago around here.  Should start to see the full effect of it in about 10yrs, looking forward to that.     Nice haul again, MP.  8)  Oh, yeah, by the looks of all those big girls you landed you must have been using a good wire leader or something, eh.      

[MeadowPikeman]

Malin Boa No Kink!!! not one leader failure on about 200 fish this year.

[JCaughtem]

Malin Boa No Kink!!! not one leader failure on about 200 fish this year.

Glad to see you get some late season action you had it ruff ealier with extreme cold .Do you think if barbs were aloud you would have  landed those hartbreakers?

[MeadowPikeman]

to tell you the truth the weather still sucked, was -20 or colder the last few mornings there were a couple that i thought maybe the barbs might have kept them on, for the most part i didn't think it made much difference, when fish fish get around the logs there is nothing you can do about it, some them we just flat out missed too, miss a couple in a row and it kinda messes with your head.

[JCaughtem]

to tell you the truth the weather still sucked, was -20 or colder the last few mornings there were a couple that i thought maybe the barbs might have kept them on, for the most part i didn't think it made much difference, when fish fish get around the logs there is nothing you can do about it, some them we just flat out missed too, miss a couple in a row and it kinda messes with your head.

Yup logs cost me my share of giants every year through ice in rivers and lakes frozen or not .Live by the structure die by the structure.Did your buddy keep the 46 plus ?Huge pike.

[MeadowPikeman]

yeah its already at the taxidermists, was the first pike we kept this year.

[fishuhalik]

Boy, I hear ya.  What a slow trip. 
Geez, you guys catch more big pike in 3 days than I've caught in my life!  Congrats on what I would call a GREAT trip

[-ADKIceman]

I am there dude... if I have to stay in my truck for a week.. I am so on it...