01-05-2004, 03:52 AM
I ended up not making any thing.
I dont usualy start building untill the ice sets in. I have seen years when the lakes did not even build up a crust. it dosnt take me but a day to build most any thing I want to use. but if I dont get ice by the first week of jan, I dont build any thing at all.
reason being is we get the mid winter thaw that last about any where from a week or two in january and that leaves only two weeks of ice fishing season in jan and maybe 3 weeks in feb. last year was an exception. and boy did I take advantage of it. I fished almost two weeks in to march. I think it was a day or two before st patties day befor I quit. I may have to wait for sucker season and concentrate on them this year. I did not pull any in last year. did see some nice ones, but when I got my stuff out and went out a couple days later they were all gone.
looks like that monster of the lake will not be captured by me unless we get some good ice soon.
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I dont usualy start building untill the ice sets in. I have seen years when the lakes did not even build up a crust. it dosnt take me but a day to build most any thing I want to use. but if I dont get ice by the first week of jan, I dont build any thing at all.
reason being is we get the mid winter thaw that last about any where from a week or two in january and that leaves only two weeks of ice fishing season in jan and maybe 3 weeks in feb. last year was an exception. and boy did I take advantage of it. I fished almost two weeks in to march. I think it was a day or two before st patties day befor I quit. I may have to wait for sucker season and concentrate on them this year. I did not pull any in last year. did see some nice ones, but when I got my stuff out and went out a couple days later they were all gone.
looks like that monster of the lake will not be captured by me unless we get some good ice soon.
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