01-19-2011, 07:10 AM
here is another I caught him usin a mousie.
only this time I caught a 7inch perch at 8 am, and put him on my tip-up.
I checked on my perch bait several times during the day to see that he was healty. Around noon time I found my perch was floating upside down in my hole. not having anything else to use as bait or was the pan fish biting I opted to lowering my line to allow the perch to float below the hole.
any bait is better than no bait.[
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I would not get another bite of any kind all day untill 3pm when my flag popped up, as exciting as it was, holding off is of the utmost importance. No matter how long it takes, resisting the temtation of grabbing and attempting to set the hook to soon will only cause me to mis setting the hook all together.
So I stood near by with the corner of my eye on the spindle. Nearly 15 minutes passed by with not so much as a twich on the spindle. Then it happened, the spindle moved, not much, a whole 8th of a turn, then I knew I had him, well at least it gave me hope that I had a taker.
A couple more minutes passed by before I would see another nudge on the spindle, another minute then another nudge, another minute then a whole quarter turn, bouy was we getting excited. then it would be another two minutes before we got another quarter turn, then the movements increased, quarter turns about every ten seconds, I told my buddy, nope not yet, wait for it - wait for it....... then a full turn and stopped, a minute passed by then three full turns... and I said any second now...... and then Arooomm a zoom zooooom the spindal takes off like a pike on the run...
I grabed my tipup - line running off the spool wizzing though the glove on my hand, I tightened my grip and set the hook, then the fun began. Tug-a-war.. I pulled and he pulled back, in and out and in and out he went. And when I thought he was tired enough to monover his head in to the hole, he'd take off again, this goes on for a good half hour when finaly I managed to get his head turn up in to the hole.
now wouldnt ya know this day would be like no other, there is always something I forget to take out on the ice with me,,, and today wouldnt ya know it, it was my gaft. [angelic]
well this meant I would once again have to place my hand in to the mouth of another monster of the deap... and like so many times before, I am left with yet another battle scar. [pirate][:p][cool]
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36 inches 13 pounds caught 1/18/11
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only this time I caught a 7inch perch at 8 am, and put him on my tip-up.
I checked on my perch bait several times during the day to see that he was healty. Around noon time I found my perch was floating upside down in my hole. not having anything else to use as bait or was the pan fish biting I opted to lowering my line to allow the perch to float below the hole.
any bait is better than no bait.[
]I would not get another bite of any kind all day untill 3pm when my flag popped up, as exciting as it was, holding off is of the utmost importance. No matter how long it takes, resisting the temtation of grabbing and attempting to set the hook to soon will only cause me to mis setting the hook all together.
So I stood near by with the corner of my eye on the spindle. Nearly 15 minutes passed by with not so much as a twich on the spindle. Then it happened, the spindle moved, not much, a whole 8th of a turn, then I knew I had him, well at least it gave me hope that I had a taker.
A couple more minutes passed by before I would see another nudge on the spindle, another minute then another nudge, another minute then a whole quarter turn, bouy was we getting excited. then it would be another two minutes before we got another quarter turn, then the movements increased, quarter turns about every ten seconds, I told my buddy, nope not yet, wait for it - wait for it....... then a full turn and stopped, a minute passed by then three full turns... and I said any second now...... and then Arooomm a zoom zooooom the spindal takes off like a pike on the run...
I grabed my tipup - line running off the spool wizzing though the glove on my hand, I tightened my grip and set the hook, then the fun began. Tug-a-war.. I pulled and he pulled back, in and out and in and out he went. And when I thought he was tired enough to monover his head in to the hole, he'd take off again, this goes on for a good half hour when finaly I managed to get his head turn up in to the hole.
now wouldnt ya know this day would be like no other, there is always something I forget to take out on the ice with me,,, and today wouldnt ya know it, it was my gaft. [angelic]
well this meant I would once again have to place my hand in to the mouth of another monster of the deap... and like so many times before, I am left with yet another battle scar. [pirate][:p][cool]
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[/url]36 inches 13 pounds caught 1/18/11
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