tbayboy

Gotta agree with everyone else here, if I'm getting skunked I just think about the fact that I'd probably be sitting in the basement in front of the TV if I wasn't out on the water and then I feel good. Of course if the weathers lousy or the drive was bad or I forgot a snack or something like that then I really need to land at least one or else I will be kinda testy on the drive back

Great report Tip up, thanks a lot (gotta get me one of them cameras - looks like a load of fun)

Wow, thats a serious day on the ice, thanks for the report. 70 lbs is a whole lot of jigs, glad the pulk worked well .

Nah, no falling involved, we hit a dead spell for a couple hours without even a nibble and a couple of the guys decided to take advantage of the slow time

Hey Tjsa, figured you might know that spot , not exactly a secret spot up here but hey, plenty to go around today it seemed (nothing terribly huge, just some decent eaters). In shallow the ice was was pretty deep, even at our last holes in 35 feet of water it was a good 8 or 9 inches but I'm an ice newbie (hang my head in shame being from Thunder Bay and only have ice fished a handful of times) so maybe I just didn't read the depth well looking down the holes. There were several guys dragging gear out to the islands in pickups so I guess they figured it was safe (no way I'd have gone that far out in a truck but they made it back).

Spending the holidays back home with family is all well and good but after several straight turkey dinners and a few too many screaming babies me and some friends decided we needed a break and with the weather up here being unseasonably warm what better way to slip away for a few hours than heading out onto the ice! Got to the point at about 10ish in the morning and certainly weren't alone: My buddy pulled out his trusty 300 year old auger which promptly died after doing 3 holes: Luckily the guys near us lent us their manual one, even more luckily the ice was only 14 inches thick and the holes popped pretty easily (still gonna feel it in my arms tommorow I'm sure) After a little while we managed to pull in a few for the skillet, here's yours truly with my lucky hat (aint that the ugliest hat ever!) As the afternoon wore on the early wake up call combined with all the holiday feasting proved too much for some of us: In fact at some point I think one of the guys fell in, damned if we knew where he was: Around 3pm we decided to call it a day, everyone had caught at least a couple except for one of the guys who had lost at least a half dozen (but he insists it had nothing to do with his hook sets) when suddenly his line nearly tore his arm out of his socket, a mighty struggle followed and this resulted: Yep, it was time to go home I love coming home and visiting family but boy does spending time with your buds on the ice making complete fools of yourselves ever make for real holiday spirit. Best of the season to all the OFNers, hopefully I can hit some ice back home (markham) in the new year. Have fun at the swill tonight PS: all photos at Flickr

What a great thread, here's the winner of our annual north west ontario walleye trip: And well I guess panfish don't count but this guy put up a hell of a fight:

Wow what an incredible thread. There's some serious talent in this crowd. Just to make everyone else look better I'll toss out a few of my own (I really gotta learn how to use all the settings on these things one of these days). First up is some bamboo in the hills behind Honolulu: Morning on a northwest ontario lake Memories of cottage life And a couple friends take slow presentation jigging to heart Keep 'em coming everyone these are wonderful. Oh and because flickr keeps telling me I have to link back to them whenever hosting pics from their site: My Flickr Page