limeyangler

I find having a pair of waders in the truck always a good idea....saves the balancing act on the trailer tongue. SPLASH

That was truly amazing, the whole story, they say its nearly impossible to successfully land a plane on water without it brweaking up.....which gets me wondering...why then is 60% or so of most safety/evacuation leaflets in your seat pockets on planes taken up with what to do when you 'land ' on water...general concensus is your toast!

save some money and use glow jigs.

HOLY Crappie..... Nice fish...huge!

That was the question i was gonna ask!

LOL...i had a couple of days like that last year. Sorry to hear about the sled, and thanks for posting, will definitely be carrying some kind of tow rope with me now.

Early morning action? hehe.... sorry, my sordid mind at work there Rich. Nice catch as per usual, you just cant leave those bass alone can ya

Q-Tips up yer nostrils works! Seriously though, they do smell strongly, kinda put me off eating them the first time i caught some..but they taste so good i dont mind the smell anymore, i wash my hands with dish soap, and my wife is used to it....lol

1st year i was here in Canada i would have said i like fishing on the ice and open water equally. 2nd year i found myself thinking about ice fishing whilst out in the boat, but would not admit to myself that i had a preference...because fishing is fishing. Now into my 3rd hardwater season i would have to say i love icefishing....i think it just opens up where i can get to access wise, Lake trout are a lot easier to target, and i love catchin and eating those, and when i get better at finding and catching big walleye through the ice i think ice fishing wins! But....lol...fishing is fishing....i love it all!

Great report, i think you did an awesome job catching that smelt......i fish a lake that has swarms of 'em...cant catch one for love or money!

Thats really cool....nice trout too. I'm looking for part 1 now....lol.

Good on ya Bernie...just in time for spring!!!

Hi Y'all, Well I finally got my sled from the thieves (garage) , and decided to test it out. I wanted to see if it could make it up the steep 300m hill with the 3 man portable and all my gear in it....NO WORRIES!!!!! would have made it up even with a big person going 2 -up. I was really nervous about taking it out, and it almost stopped me going fishing, after all the crap I’ve had with it i don’t have much confidence in it. But i checked all the oil, anti-freeze etc...etc...and just went for it....glad i did, i feel a bit better about it. The weather has also improved...its been sunny recently...not much wind either, but like the rest of Canada its been dang freezin'! yesterday morning it was minus 40 degrees C when i walked out....lol...decided not to go fishing pretty quick, but today it was a balmy minus 15C. YESTERDAY MORNINGS THERMOMETER !! The sun was out this morning, and so were the deer, they looked cold though...lol. There was a bit of wind but no probs with the shelter...geeeeze...I’m becoming such a wimp now i have the shelter...last year i was almost wearing T-shirts in minus 15 C. SORRY GUYS, MY LAWN IS COVERED WITH SNOW.....AND YOU ALREADY ATE ALL MY SHRUBS.....LOL After a lot of false starts i finally got loaded up and was headed to Thunder Lake, arriving pretty late at 11:30 am. The sled even started with the electric start...that was nice! I hooked up the shelter and made my way down the slope to the lake, trying not to think too much about whether it would make it back up. I could still see the patch we cleared about 2 weeks ago so headed straight to it, as we hammered èm pretty good on that spot, and because i had little snow to clear was good to go in less than 10 minutes. It was even quicker set up because i put a new Ripper blade on my Jiffy lightning, i thought my other blades were sharp but thought I’d just swap and see if there was a difference....HOLY ........it was like a knife through butter! guess my other blade was not as sharp as i thought. FINALLY GOT OUT WITH MY SLED....WAS SET UP IN NO TIME! After about an hour i thought i was gonna get skunked! Nothing showing on the sonar. Last time i was on this spot there were 10 foot thick schools of smelt....not today. I waited...and waited and was finally rewarded with a really little guy that just appeared outta nowhere at only 10 feet below the ice in 50 FOW. I was using sucker minnows and jigs. Right after that my other line set around the 15`FOW started spooling....another little guy! THIS GUY SAVED THE DAY! <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/skunkavoided.flv"> ANOTHER LITTLE GUY FOLLOWED CLOSE BEHIND <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/anotherlittleguy.flv"> After that little flurry, normal service resumed, and i sat staring at a blank sonar screen for another hour, i tried every lure, jig, tube jigs, small minnows, large minnows, huge sucker minnows in various combinations.....NADA! I noticed a small deviation in the bottom line of the graph, and quickly dropped down to the bottom, as soon as my minnow came within 10 feet of bottom, three thick graph lines screamed up to meet it, i thought it was ling, as they started to bite about 2pm last time i came out, and when i was reeling up the first strike i thought it was a ling with all the weird head shaking....i was wrong...it was a decent sizes trout for Thunder Lake. I got another medium one which i put back, followed by 2 missed bites/break offs, and landed another around the same size as the first keeper . THATS MORE LIKE IT! <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/nicerone.flv"> ALL DOWN THE BOTTOM TODAY <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/downthebottomtoday.flv"> A good day on the ice again, nice to be on my own sled, now really looking forward to our NWO meet up next weekend, two days of fishing, staying in a cabin on a walleye lake the first night, then the next morning sledding into my favourite(so far) Laker and Whitefish lake, only brkygetr and Benbeattie from this forum and a couple more from an ice fishing forum, around 9 or 10 of us....should be awesome! till then...see yas.

Good Luck Buddy!

Greatr stuff Sinker! Love the bit about the auger deciding the honey hole.... Good lookin' whities as well. Definitely got me fired up to get out on Saturday! ( i might even have my sled) You have also inspired me to stop being a wimp and get out......its -40C this morning...so i wont be going out....but i have been out in -29 before, i'm getting old....lol.

She hit you with a fish???lol nice walters for sure. Congrats on a tasty dinner.

i blew the tire on my trailer the first time i took it out...i cant remember really what it felt or sounded like...but i remember i knew instantly something was wrong.

Interesting read...thanks for posting.

great to hear Irish! its nice to hear some good news re: purchasing/customer service with all the nightmare crap i'm goin through with a particular shop. I think i might be needing an auger extension too this year...its bloody cold!

Thats pretty funny....ouch!

LOL....thats exactly what my cats do....only they gave up arond 5th November....its been pretty much minus 20 celcius since then.

great stuff Rich...i've still to catch a bass through the ice. Good looking supper there. Lol...i've never left fish out onthe porch overnite

Great report as per usual GCD, glad to see you made it through despite having to re-live the horrors of your childhood More blood ,, more fish...another great GCD day out. Congrats on the cat!

If i leave now...i might just make it! By the looks of the fishing on Simcoe i'd love to join ya...but i'm a bit fa away. Good luck and tight lines for Tuesday

Great first outing, nice haul Keep 'em coming!