Musky or Specks

It's a bit late but Happy New Year to all of you back in the frozen north that is Canada, from 007 back in London, England.

 

Looks like you are having a good ice fishing season and look forward to seeing more reports throughout the Winter. Unfortunately I can't seem to view the photos in the posts from work but hopefully I will get an internet connection at home soon so I can see all that ice action and see what I'm missing out on.

 

Unfortunately I haven't had chance to cast a line back here in England yet but hope to soon once I've settled and found some water that I'm either allowed to fish or can afford to pay the day/season ticket (in addition to the licence) to fish! When I do I will be sure to post a detailed report for you to enjoy.

 

Anyhow just thought I would say hi.

 

Stay safe out on the ice this weekend.

 

007

Just a largemouth that as soon as I lowered the camera swam up to it and checked it out. Actually being able to see whitefish pick up the chunks of minnows that I had cut up and chummed my hole with. Thats about it.

Was in the back yard once moving the tin shed. It was sitting on big patio stones and I moved them as well. A blue jay was attracted to all the bugs underneath the stones and kept flitting around picking them off. All of a sudden theres a blur of brown. A red tail just swooped in and picked the blue jay outta mid air not five feet from me. Scared the crap outta me but it was so cool.

Liken it!!!! Man I gotta get back into shape so I can do that again. Use to have a hoot in the Haliburton Wildlife preserve.

Great Report!!

Ive been outfishing my buddy for years and he's kicked my butt the last few times out. It a pleasant change for him and Im glad to see him happy, he's a good guy and he deserves it.

Take the south bay exit off of the 400. Park on the side of the road when you come to the bay. You'll see the huts.

I like to lightly chum the area then single egg it.

I was probably at my best bud Stew's house laughing so hard root beer would squirt out our noses playing with our christmas gifts which would have been

Big Jim was way cool.

Jeeze Lew .. when I saw the title ... it took me back ... when I started ice fishing ... a flasher was a guy in a raincoat that was wanted by the law ...

Anyhow .. to be honest I have always preferred the sonar to the flasher .... If you are looking at the screen (IMHO) its exactly the same speed as the flasher .. but if you ARENT ... you get about a minute to see what you missed

 

There is a alot to be said for seeing your jig AND the fish ... but if you tune your sonar right you can do that too ... and see the 'trail' of the fish coming up to the bait

 

Anyhow ... at least you'll never wonder 'what if I also had a flasher'

BTW .. I am jealous - thats one awesome looking piece of equipment ... blows the doors off my 20 yr old Humminbird ... hmm maybe a little boxing day shopping is in order after all

Was doing this the other day on south bay for crappie. You could see your minnow on the screen down 18ft in 28 fow. A few pixels bar would seperate from the bottom and move upwards towards the minnow, pick up your rod wait fish pixels merge with minnow pixels you feel the tap, set the hook, crappie on ice. Its all in knnowing how to set up your LCD for ice fishing. My graph also has a flasher but I never use it I understand the graph picture better.

Very nice report good to see you out fishing with kids. Its so rewarding for both adult and child. Yes that is a long eared sunfish.

Got out for some Ice fishing this morning on South Bay. 5 inches of ice lots of slush and snow. Pretty Messy!!! I only had one hit but my buddy who was using the fish finder in his hole caught 13 in the three hours we were out. Largest was maybe 10".

Im heading for south bay tommorow

Couple of my favourites

http://hypem.com/track/444704

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltiY-BqvOIU

Well I don' t know if the elk ever caught up to them cows... but I do know of a Bull... that caught up to a Bison ! Did a lot of damage and left his blood behind as well !

 

I prefer Doc's to jackpots although Ive caught fish on both. The funnest way to see musky but the hook up percentage is still pretty low.

And I thought the road from Manicougan to Labrador City was bad.

My dream ice fishing trip would be to do one ive already done. Seven days up at Temagami. Bunch of buddies. Seven different lakes. Caught every species available. Lakers, Whitefish, Herring, Walleye, Pike, Brook Trout and Ling. It was a new adventure everyday and was the best ice fishing trip Ive ever done.

First time at BOQ ice fishing with my buddy. Hadnt had a nibble all day. Around two oclock I go out to water the horse. When im done and coming back to the hut I notice that its pretty high up off the ice. I slowly crawl under the ice reach out and quickly grab my buddies line. He's all excited and screaming about a what a big fish he has on and then I pop my head into his hole and go boo. After he calms down some hes so increibly dissappointed that it wasnt a fish. Nother time at Virginia Beach I took a bunch of novice Ice Fisherman from back home to try there luck perchin and pikein. We were all young lads and had been out hitting the wobbly pops quite hard the night before. For those who have fished a hut there before you can see the pike swim right into your whole including some pretty big fish. One guy Jim had passed out so I filled a four litre bottle of orange juice that we had drank with water. Tied it to his line and let it sink down into about 10 feet of water. Loosened his drag off all the way. Waited a few seconds and then everyone started yelling at him that he had a huge pike on. He wakes up and sets the hook and his rod buckles over and his drag is singing. Takes him about 30 seconds to figure out he had been duped but the other 4 of us had a great time of it and still chuckle over it 20 yrs later.

Well we used to get the shinners and an old pair of scisors,and cut them up !!!!! yes cut them all up,not all the way to mush,just till they are in several pieces including the head,and then of course salt them big time,and pour all that down the hole !!!...man it works,and with all those loose scales and the scent of blood & salt...man the whities will go nuts for sure...it will also work for lake trout !!!! its nice to hear all the different ways to chumm a hole for good old whitefish !!!....cheers

Thats the method(except we dont salt them just use one or two every hour or so out of the bucket) we use and then we jig, jig, jig,. Watched it all on the accu view and it sure brought loads of whitefish in.

Does Norval have cold enough water to prevent anchor ice and allow survival of brown trout parr? I'm thinking it might isnt that where they plant the atlantics as well.

It all fine that you let it go. Very nice ethics. But if she was dripping loose there is no way she is going to spawn successfully. She has to make it at least up to the Inglewood area to find gravel that wont develop anchor ice and have cool enough water for her progeny to survive their first summer. In this cold water I doubt that she tries to get over the Streetsville fishway.

Sorry nothing is worse than death ask his victim's families.

Dont over look feral dogs either they are a problem along the Grand river in the Kitchener area and often kill deer.

He's laughing now- free education, three square, excellent medical care. Seems like a fair trade for around 50+ lives. Our justice system is a joke.