Comming at ya from Cass Lake today,
the bite today is slow and steadilly slow, No pike today not even a missed hit. a few perch showed up along with a few crappie and gills, one of the guys said he had an eye on for a couple minutes but it slipped off.
Pokin holes around maseyday lake today, faired a little better than yesterday, and hope not as well as tomarow.
half dozen keeper crappie and a dozen moderate gills. Sorry no pike and no pics today,
I seem to not be able to unplug the camera from the computer after uploading photos.. dont know if its a brain fart or just over anxious
Back at pontiac lake today,
things a tad slow, I did get enuff for a more than I should eat gill and crappie dinner. Yep, I et em all… [:p]
for fun today one of the guys went and got himself an eye on the line, six pound test, so he played it pretty good. he even got its head up in the hole, I was reaching for my gaft to help get the eye out of the hole and it was about the time I grabbed it when the hook flung out of the eye’s mouth just missing his buddy, he threw his rod to the ice and dove in after it and the cell phone in his shirt pocket fell out and in to the hole, going down with the eye.
I need me a vidia camera.. lol,
by the way, if any one gets a late night phone call from Wallie in pontiac lake, Well, you’ll know who it is from… [sly]
by the way, the ice is leaching away from the shore line as temps hold near freezing, moving waters are making conditions unstable… so play it safe on the ice…
Found my self out at Cresent Lake today,
again the gills were slow, I got my frist rock bass this ice season and add another pike to my hit list for a total of 7 for this ice season.
This one was 21 inches and was safely and promptly returned after a photo opp…
I caught this one on my slammer, for those of you who are keeping score, that is now 5 pike for the slammer and 2 for the itty bitty crappy rod…
There must be a gazillion c-phones in the bottoms of the lakes .
I think I lost 4 so far and a camera .
gills were slow again, took all day to come up with a dozen for dinner.
we hit walled lake the morning bite, we managed to pull up this little 25 inch hook swallower, good thing she was 25 inches cuz she swallowed that trebble but good, no way to pull it and return her to the wild.
the rest of the day was pretty mondane. south east wind blowing a damp bone chilling air.
Be carefull, ice is breaking around the edges today, I am sure tomarow will be worse.
anybody with interest…getting some nice pearch on muskegan lake..17 friday..size 8 to 13 inches..53 foot deep..be back in a few days
Heading back up to Tip-Up-Town today
every year I plan on going, and just like every year I come up with an excuse for not making it…
this year is the expence of having to replace the wench on my quad. I am not complaining that I had to replace it, I did use the dickens out of it.
the old one is rebuildable but could not be done in any timely manor, Brushes about worn out, arbor and magnetic feild packed in carbon from the worn brushes. So brushes are going to go on order.
I was going to put a smaller wench on for half the price, but that ment re-wireing the entire system.. so that was a no-go…
so tell me, how did things go? and what did I miss?
I dont quite remember where muskegan lake is.
I seldome keep perch under 10 inches unless I am using them as bait in the same lake where I am fishing. I do like the 10-13’s, there is something left after skinning them…
yea i know..its west side..pretty popular pearch lake over here flows into lake michigan through channell..pearch are average with a few bigger..just a heads up
You missed a whole bunch of RAIN !!!
I think it stopped for maybe an hour and a half the entire day .
The news reported that 6 people went threw the ice out on the bay .
I’m thinking of going threw the ice next weekend at tip-up-town , polar bear style .
you doing pictures right..gotto see that
speaking of wich, today there is a tripple furneral in ohio. three boys 7-8-11 went walking out on the ice of a river south east of sandusky. cant remember the name of the town.
all brothers.
My heart goes out for that family…
oh, by the way, dont let Tubedude know you are going to be showing off them snowbird legs. [:p]
We (the mrs. and myself ) have been tring to get me registered all day for the polar bear dip .
Will have to wait and see if the on-line e-mail was excepted .
Ice conditions have become deplorable in the last few days.
cooler temps are due for the rest of the week, so by weekend I expect conditions to be about the same pre thaw of last week. We still need more deep freeze temps to make ice some what stable for atv’s and snow mobiles.
I did see a few die hards treding lightly on the ice in a few places. I dont tred lligt in my birthday suit so I am staying off completely untill we get more stable ice.
I checked my minnow bucket today, and most all my minners were floating on the bottom of the bucket, so I pulled them out and packed them in kosier salt and placed them in the freezer to freeze dry.
lots of water and slush on top of the ice.
wear your rubbers if you want to target your favorite species…
It’s been bitter cold here the last couple days , weather says it’s 22 but it feels more like 20 below without a breese .
rough walking on the ice today boys.
pretty day, sun shinging.
again I found my self in the middle of a high presure system.
which of course you all know by now means I caught no fish again. well nothing to speak of.
buy since I was lacking pictures this winter, I took a cople to show the crunchy walking conditions and one to show the kind of fish we were getting.