limeyangler

Great report… thanks. Love the baby Snook.

The crash can happen really suddenly too.

Hi all, had a bit more time today and my neighbour and me took the longer trek down the lake to a good crappie hole. Fishing was decent and we got a couple of nice walleye too.

That was the warm up for today with my neighbour.

Hi all, dropped the kid off at school and then loaded the snow machine for an epic journey of 1.5kms to the ice road for crappie. Had not fished that spot so far this year, and its not my favourite spot, but there are (small) fish there and its close to home. I braved the elements as I was trying out drilling a grid, which I always do for crappie, but this time I had the grid set up so I could chase the fish with the Active Target, worked a treat and with the grid spaced out in 5' increments it was really fun to pin point a hole 20' feet away, walk over , drop a line and see the fish there with my regular fishfinder. Not many big ones today, actually no big ones, but i kept 10 acceptedle sized ones and threw a few drinks back. Its meant to be warmer here the next couple days and i'll be getting out to a better crappie spot for sure...TIGHT LINES!

Turns out it will be fine dining, for my neighbour....my culinary plans got scuppered by work, not that he'll be complaining.

Sounds delicious! I’m going to try doing pan seared so it has a crispy skin with a caper and olive vinaigrette type deal.

Thanks buddy!

Usually I don’t head out when it’s that cold, but I was really bored… lol.

Hi all, Got on the lake about 1pm and left at dark. I drilled a few holes in different spots but in the end settled for the spot i got some on the other day as that was the only spot i marked anything moving. Waited an hour and a half before three came along at once and then it shut down. A 20" and a 17.5" walleye landed and another one got off at the hole, then a few whitefish showed up and I coaxed one to bite. Luckily there was no wind as it was around -20℃, but the shack was toasty.

Hi all, Been colds heck here, so hooked up the Otter and headed out to try my Active target on the ice for the first time. I was not sure of ice thickness or if the creeks were frozen for access, but it was all good, surprisingly there was close to 14" of good black ice, with almost not enough snow for my machine. Anyway, got into some pike before I even got the camera on or the tent set up and then sat for a couple of hours being run a merry dance by some smaller whitefish. I was beginning to think the walleye were on a day of until literally the last cast and watched a 24"walleye smack my line. Got it up, quick picture and back it went, fun couple of hours.

Welcome aboard Darrin!

A deer got nailed by wolves a week earlier 50 yards from where I was fishing, we figured that’s where it came from, nothing but blood and a few tufts of fur left.

It’s been +C temps for 4 days here, found this bugger out ice fishing yesterday.

Oh jeez, I don’t wanna ever go through, not even up to my ankles… lol.

Managed to squeak in an hour at the bridge after getting all my Xmas shopping done for another year, good way to unwind from the madness. Got a walleye supper out of the deal too.

8” inches…..missed 3…..caught 1.

Hi all, Went down to the lake with my son to check the ice….close to shore there was 2 feet of snow on top of 3” of ice, only 2” was good ice…. Not even gonna go further out to the bit that froze later. On the way up to the house Jack asks if the Bravo still runs, so we went and dug it out from the back of the garage. Hadn’t run it for 2 years, but 10 pulls or so later and she fired up! Dumped 10” of snow last night so we took it for a spin in the yard………

They definitely make a difference but tire prices are insane! But the thought of losing a loved one is also unthinkable. Maybe some kind of government rebate and reduced insurance premium would help, whether or not it is made mandatory.

It’s very sad. On the other extreme I remember spear fishing off the beaches in the Caribbean as a kid, literally wade 10’ into the water and there were red and black coral ferns the size of an ice shack, every colour living corals everywhere, sea grass fields and every species of fish to make the mind boggle and senses overload, have been back to those same shores 40 years later and it’s all gone, nothing but dead , bleached coral and a few hardy species of reef fish sparsely distributed. In behind what mangroves have been spared by developement is plastic piled 3’ high, it is literally disgusting. Many factors at play, all contributed to by us, sad my son will never experience what I was privileged to see.

Yeah, last year was insane. We had no snow on the ground anywhere on Xmas eve………

Hi all, Our bay iced over last night, some areas of open water in the main basin visible from our shore but with three days of light winds and -20C temps midweek should lock up everything. Bit of a bummer that we have 10cm to 15cm of snow forecast tomorrow to insulate the new ice, but it’s better than the three feet some parts of Ontario are getting, you can keep that sh$&! I was looking back at my first ice post on here from last year, we are a day short of 2 weeks later this year, hopefully we have an ice road before Xmas. Might get out somewhere on Sunday, will post if I do.

I forgot to say I’m currently using a Lowrance Active target, the older version.

Thanks Crowman, I’m just getting into this whole FFS thing and have been a bit bummed out that everything I love about the Humminbird set up on my boat would mean a compromise in when it came to ffs, hopefully it’s all that it’s promising to be, having ffs hooked into iPilot Link would be deadly.

Sad news, condolences to his family and friends.