Joeytier

Never liked those packaged ones, but frozen shiners work just fine

mmmm...sure is

McConnell Lake Campgrounds...4 hours and change from the GTA. Northeast of North Bay.

http://http://www.mcconnellcampgrounds.com/

I'll be fishing

Chris is young and sadly I look like I'm a lot younger then I actually am (I get ID'd all the time at the LCBO) the officer probably thought he knew better then these two young 'punk kids' and could intimidate us into leaving. I was going to give him a perch and wish him a merry christmas and ask him to leave us be. Whatever, it was still a fun day.

You should've snuck a small perch into his pocket as he was leaving

Wow! What a great fish. I like the herring...use it as bait then fry it up afterwards.

It is not an officers duty to dictate what is safe for law-abiding adults on public land. I would've loved to be in your shoes for that one.

Good job boys.

zero degrees and sunny in mid-January? Time to go splakin'...

Hit a productive splake lake with relatively high expectations, which were exceeded greatly with an absolutely insane mid-afternoon flurry of action. Fish came in waves, which is typical of splake, and had a couple bursts of action that produced 6-7 fish in under 30 minutes between 4 lines. Fish were primarily small, which I was more than okay since it's tough to beat a small char in terms of table fare. Was hoping for big bertha to rear her head at dusk but it wasn't meant to be. Next time...

Stationed out around a high current area in 6-10 FOW...

splitshot and a shiner was all that was needed but I was experimenting with williams spoons and a dropper rig and produced a good number of fish on it as well...

Splake a-la stick is always a treat...

Still waiting for lakers to open up here but these guys are filling the void nicely!

Hey I usually end up in the best shape of the year by the end of winter, so I'm not complaining...okay maybe just about my catch rates...

DDT, not CFCs. Big difference.

Yep. Thanks for the correction.

LOL@ the 57 nests in Ontario Bull. Bald eagle numbers have been increasing steadily for decades since the banning of CFC's nearly wiped them out decades ago. Nothing 'sickening' about this. That article was P3TA-calibre stupidity.

Yep..easy to get to...I fished a couple of those stocked lakes last winter and thought it was so strange to be ice fishing trout on a lake lined with cottages

Those gators are THICK!

If fuel consumption and depreciation aren't important to you, then get the Dodge lol!

Alright, Nick let's meet halfway somewhere so you can teach me how to find crappies.

Great stuff. I'd take a day like that over the zoo of simcoe any day of the week.

Sweet! I had a brookie take a tip up of mine down the hole back in early december. Retrieved the tip up but not the fish

trout - worm on hook

everything else - minnow on hook

catch fish hard...

Would it work better if I got an ice ducer?

I highly doubt it. The unit itself is just not powerful enough to be overly effective. On warm days in < 14 FOW it's fine

How many remember this one?

 

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Can't say I remember it...but those early Genesis albums are out of this world.

Thought I'd dig up this post, I got out on the ice today and realized that my pirahna max won't sense my transducer in cold water, any way to fix this?

I used one for a season or two...absolutely hated the thing. Very inconsistent display, and became less and less effective the colder it got. Hardly even worth the effort of lugging the thing around.

I don't mean to set lofty expectations, but I'm sure you'll be able to top that this weekend, Jeremy.

Watching the rise on the flasher never gets old. Always gets the blood pumping.

I've heard that sometimes they'll hit in the evening.

Thanks...its 100% species at risk fur...

Great start indeed...I'm off to freeze my cahonies off sans-hut on a new spot this evening.