Greencoachdog

They is the Katz !!!

Some folks won't use anything else but wheel weights for pouring jigs! They're a harder lead than pure lead. I wish I lived closer, I'd buy them from you!... a lot of places get 25 cents a pound for them.

You can also catch them on sale online at Cabelas and BPS for cheap!

Excellent report Simon!!! That is a Hulking Whitefish!!!... looks like he was on steroids!!! Is your cat happier now?

For me, muddy/dirty water never produces as well as stained or clear. Fast/heavy current put the fish to hugging the bottom and behind objects that break the current, you have to use a lot more weight to get the bait down to the fish in heavy current. Dirty water with strong current, fish aren't going to move very far to strike... you've got to put the bait right in front of them.

Excellent pics Bernie!!! Keep post them here, I don't think anybody has a problem with stuff like that!!! Dang!... it was cold up there even back then eh?

What did you catch? Just curious.

Sounds like a very good morning!!! It's days like that, that keep us coming back and enduring the Skuny days!!!

Very nice report and pics Jacques!!! That Kevin boy has those Whitefish dialed in!!! ... it looks like the only one that can beat him is Stephanie! Did Kevin at least let you hold his fish or something??? ... yanno, so you and Paul could remember what one feels and smells like! Why no more trips to that lake?... does it close soon or something?

Do what all the really cool kids are doing Randy and join Photobucket, you can post an -load of big pics in one post!!! It's real easy!

That'll be Mr. Pervo Stalker to you son!!!

A beautiful boat for sure Lew!!! It needs some fish slime on it real bad though!!!

Use them for Burbot bait thru the ice on Simcoe at night!!! ...Troot is overgrown minnows!!!

Youse kin say dat again!!!

... and that differs from your other replies by how???

the Geeses stay here year 'round... Green Trout are open 12 months a year... no closed seasons on any freshwater fish here!!! That front pedestal seat works so well Mike, I can't imagine using anything else and won't own another boat without one!!! I haven't had that i580 phone for not even a week and I already love it Matt!!! ... you can't beat a Motorola!!! Durable and long lasting!!! I hardly ever use the cell phone function, the direct connect/walkie talkie is all I ever really ever need!!!

... I aint doin' it this year!!! I'm sick of losing an hour of daylight in the morning just so the slack- -es can have an extra hour of daylight in the evening!!!... get up you lazy slobs!!! What's a smoke and/or CO detector???

Heck Cliff!!!... I don't care what y'all think!... you're 1,000 miles away, but I do need to behave myself around here close to the house! She was pretty cute though... and I can't say that offering her a jig didn't cross my mind! Did you ever stop to think that you sux at ice fishin' because you don't do it enough?... practice, practice, practice Bubba!!! We outlawed that stuff here bossman!!!.. how do you think I hooked up with a Canadian wife? The shirt comes off in April Jose... consider yourself warned!!! Thanks Kevin!!!

Excellent report and pics Cliff!!! Looks like a very fun time out there with lots of good folks!!! Try backing off on your drag a little and wear the little turds out before they get close to the top!

Those catfish were lucky to be a 1/2 lb. Jacques, the biggest one may have been 3/4 lb.. I like them in the 1 1/2-2 lb. range for eating! The water should clear up in another week or 2 if we don't get another big rain. It won't be long before a nice Spotted Bass or big Crappie makes a mistake on the end of one of my lines!!!... and when it does, can can bet his little butt will be CPR'd and in our entries thread Steve! I posted them just for you Wayne!... you know how it is when the fish won't cooperate and you have to use "filler" to make a report a little more interesting dontcha? The little kitties went back to get some meat on their bones at the end of the day Bubba, I just keep them in the detention center to keep them from following me around and stealing my minnows all day. I know there's some fatties in there, and as soon as the water warms up a little more they'll be hungry again! That pedestal seat is actuall more stable that any tripod I could bring on the boat... and I don't have to worry about it getting knocked over either!!!

A couple of really nice fish Kemp!!! Don't worry about team 2... y'all don't need any fish anyway! ... just lookit how many Schnagg has caught and not entered!!!

Ha! Put a helmet on that cat and let him go!!!

Well the fishing has been extremely sucky around here for the past month and a half!!! We had some much colder than normal weather in January and February that did a number on our Threadfin Shad, they were "winter killed". Not by lack of oxygen from the lake freezing over, but by the cold temps. The surface temp of lake Henry dropped down to 43*F in January, the coldest I've seen it in a long time. Threadfin Shad can withstand very warm water, but when the temp drops below 45*F they start dying. Not all of them die, probably only a small percentage... but in a large lake with a healthy Shad population, that can number in the millions! This makes for a smorgasboard of very easy pickin's for the gamefish They gorge themselves and probably feel like we do after Thanksgiving dinner... can stand to look at another piece of food for a while! Here's a pic of a dying Threadfin: He wasn't dead, just doing his dying flutters on the surface before sinking to the bottom. There were hundreds of them littering the surface... wherever you went! There are still very large and healthy schools of Shad: ... but the lively healthy ones didn't have anything to worry about with all the dead and dying ones around! Like I said, they were everywhere! I tried fishing other sections of the lake, but it was the same thing everywhere I went! I scooped up dying ones off the surface and tried using them for bait... the fish were not amused or interested! I did run into these guys nesting on a midlake island: What a racket they make when you get closer than they feel comfortable with! I made 3 trips after I caught that big Catfish and was skunked twice and caught 1 little baby Bluecat the third time. I went out this past Thursday to see if the Shad kill was over since we had some warm rains last weekend... a lot of rain!!! 5" in a day and a half!!! I knew the water was going to be chocolate, but it was a pretty nice day except for the wind which was doing it's March thing and blowing pretty good! After I launched my boat and had pulled my truck off the ramp, I noticed a woman preparing to launch her boat alone. I approached her and asked if she was prefishing for the B.A.S.S Womens tourney that will be held on the lake at the end of the month, she said she was. I wished her luck and returned to my boat so as not to hog up the launch dock. This is her boat and truck: I would've liked to have taken more pics of her and her boat, but I didn't want her to think I was some kind of pervo stalker. Plus she deserves the same peace and privacy we all have when fishing. Like I mentioned earlier, it was a pretty nice day and I caught these turtles sunning themselves: The gulls were still hanging around pretty thich from the shad kill: I call them "gulls" but I think they're actually a type of Tern. Fishing was very slow, but considerably better than recent trips... which is encouraging! I caught 6 little ol' Blue Cat "kittenfish": All released to grow bigger! These last 2 pics are to show how I take the self timer pics in the boat by myself. A lot of people like to accuse me of carrying a tripod around with me in the boat (like that's a bad thing ) This is me taking a pic of how I take a pic: Unfortunately the pic I took with my cell phone out on the water wasn't saved properly and I lost it, so I had to retake the pic in the driveway. ... are you ready for it? ...it's extremely high tech!!! ... don't try this at home!!! .. so now ya know.

Curling!

Good to hear they were rescued safe and sound! Sounds like they may have even made it home in time for supper!