limeyangler

Welcome to the bestest site there is nathan...look forward to some great reports. I also love float fishing...Drennan Pikers rule!!! even i f i only use them for walleye and pike...i'm jealous as hell of you steelhead guys!

That would be awesome...got nine acres here...6 acres of land suitable to pitch tents....would give me an excuse to build the dock i keep saying i'll build....lol

Took a day off fishing and went and bought this......... the guy phoned me back this morning, and when he heard my voice(accent) said...."i know you"....turned out to be Keith...the guy i helped in the pre- fish for the Red Lake Fall Classic .....meant to be?...hope so.... Anyway....its 1996 Polaris XLT Touring 600....around 4000 on the clock....not a bad deal at $1900...i thought so anyway . Goin to winnipeg to pick up a frabill/eskimo/clam 3 man sled/shelter next week....should be set to go for ice fishing with a vengeance this year!!! BEST THING WAS DRIVING IT HOME FROM KEITHS ACROSS WABIGOON LAKE RIGHT UP MY LAWN!!!

Hi Ya'll, Went back to Ingal...again, if nothing else i'm persistent...lol. I only had a couple of hours again, but had already scoped out a spot that seemed to have walleye from what i was seeing on the sonar. The spot i had found was half way across a 150yard narrows, where the weed/mud gave way to a more rocky bottom from what i could tell on the sonar. I did however decide to drill holes at intervals from that half way point the remaining 75 yards to the opposite shore as the rocks on the opposite shore hit the water line vertically which usually means steep if not vertical drop-off, just wanted to explore this tiny section of a new lake....see whats around and perhaps find a honey hole for when i drag Chuck and Dave out....wouldn't want them to start whining "ah...there's no fish here"....lol. Well, it went exactly as the last trip...PIKE...PIKE....PERCH...PERCH....PIKE.....PIKE....PIKE....SOME MORE PERCH...PIKE....etc...etc... some nice aggressive pike....so lots of fun. It was really cold yesterday.....minus 18 celcius with a wind gusting straight up the narrows at up to 33kmh....dont even wanna think what the wind chill was! Anyway...after about an hour of non stop pike / perch action i headed back to the middle to get the evening bite where i had spotted plenty of what looked like walleye the day before. I had also noticed that the walleye (if thats what they were, were shy of jigs and liking just the hook and split shot presentation, and had a rod set up that way already. I dropped one rod down with a jig, then set up my sonar on the hole with the split shot/hook/minnow rod. What followed was a comedy of errors.... As soon as i dropped the split shot line down the hole, a very walleye like line on the sonar graph started to investigate my bait....just as that was happening...my other rod tried to dissappear down the hole....ran over...took the little jackfish off and back to my other rod. The walleye was just sitting under the bait still....i gave it a slight twitch and it nailed it, unfortunately my reel was not working at all well, the handle kept coming lose, and the bale arm kept freezing in the semi open position...hard to set hooks and reel up.....anyway....this one did not get off....until its head poked through the ice....and IT WAS A WALLEYE...A BIG ONE TOO.....straight away i had my hand in the hole...but it was hard to grab the fish with my mitts on...so i quickly threw off the mit......and made another bare handed grab...getting my whole arm wet as the fish evaded my attempted grab dissappeared under the ice again. DARN IT!!!! am i jinxed on this lake or what! The minnow was still on so i quickly dropped it back down the hole, watching the descent on the screen...it had made it half way down the 9' water column when the whole screen lit up as a huge Jackfish grabbed the bait and snapped me off.....AAARRRRRRGH. I could not re-do my line as my hands were freezing already from the icy dunking,and after my frostbite episode last year i was not de-mitting (is that a word?..lol...is now) and with only 15 minutes left because of a dinner invitation that night...time was pressing and the walleye were too suspicious of the jig (i tried numerous jigs, different colours/size the day before) so i left waleyeless again...at least i know they are there....but it does feel like i'm jinxed as far as walleye go on this lake...lol. Heres the piccys from my 2 hours yesterday. Did not take too many as it got really cold and i put the camera away with lots of hand warmers stuffed round it!

Congrats on the first musky! I am still a musky virgin....lol

Hi Y'all, Went about a mile further down the road from Burr Lake to Ingall Lake. I did not get there until 2pm, and spent a lot of time slowly edging out from shore drilling as i went. I was probably being over cautious as first 3 holes showed 8 inches of black ice...but by myself...cant be tooo careful. I was in a very narrow section of the lake, probably only 150 meters wide. was only around 10 feet deep all the way across, and first 50 yards was weedy and muddy on the bottom. Lots of small perch on the fishfinder and no sign of a walleye until i got 3/4 of the way across and found the transition from mud/weed to rocky bottom. by then it was getting dark, i saw 3 definite walleye lines on the graph (i can tell by the way the line on the graph approaches the bait....lol...spend too much time staring at that screen) had one on that got off...and the other 2 were messing me around! I am definitely goin back soon.....check out that spot i found near the end, need to get there earlier to check out more areas/presentations etc. I did manage three pike for my efforts...2 decent sized ones and a little guy. 1ST FISH FOR ME AT INGALL LAKE <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/MVI_2440.flv"> 2ND FISH WAS A LITTLE GUY 3RD ONE WAS A DECENT SIZE

WELCOME. Great bow!

HAppy Birthday ROB! Like some wise person once said...."Age is just a state of WINE"

Hi Y'all, Went out the front of the house on Monday afternoon from 1pm to 2:30pm. I was not planning to go because i was on night shift...but the weather was so nice and the lake so close...why not, could still get a few hours sleep before work. GORGEOUS DAY AND NOT FAR TO GO....WHY NOT! ICE IS GETTING THICKER TOO......WAS THREE INCHES IN THE SAME SPOT A FEW DAYS AGO....NOW 6".....NICE BLACK ICE TOO GOT ONE NICE PIKE JUST BEFORE I PACKED IT IN.....NICE MINI SESSION. I worked back to back night shifts...so was gonna be pretty tired today....but i seem to be able to tough it out....lololol...its not hard.....ITS FISHING! So i hooked up with my fishing buddies Dave and Chuck and we headed off to try a lake just further down from Burr Lake where i have been going a lot recently. However by the time they pulled up at my place it was gone midday, by the time we hit the logging road it was 1:30pm....so we decided to go to Burr Lake again as none of us has fished the other lake and did not have time really to explore it. CHUCK GOT THE FIRST FISH OF THE DAY>>>A REALLY FAT PERCH AND THE FIRST WALTER THE BITE WAS PRETTY CONSTANT FOR THE 3 HOURS OR SO WE WERE THERE AND WE GOT OUR 3 MAN LIMIT BY 4PM....THEN THE BITE ALL BUT DIED AND AS USUAL SOMEONE FORGOT TO BRING PLASTIC BAGS. ....LOL A nice few hours ice fishing from this week....heres to many more hours this winter. PS....Jeeeeze was it ever cold today

LOLOL...i chickened out...i couldn't watch the whole thing!

Some of you may well know this little ditty already....but i stumbled upon it while surfing the net tonite. I just found it inspirational and uplifting during a difficult period in my life 15 years ago....and re-reading it now brought the same comfort and hope it did back then. I'm not an overly sentimental/romantic/religious/melodramatic person.....but this just lifts my spirits....thought i'd just throw it out there to all you folks. DESIDERATA Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

barracuda and sailfish.

lol...you might not think this is a problem...lol...but....i have almost the opposite occur whenever i'm in winnipeg...either of the three big stores there. my wife actively encourages me to buy stuff because "we wont be up for a while" . Problem is we really dont have the money to throw around....and i feel to guilty and irresponsible to do it....usually

Welcome new member...from another relatively new member

Hey Rob, I bought my Jiffy Lightning gas auger there last year. Not online but at the actual store in winnipeg. Being completely new to Canada and ice fishing back then i needed no crap advice on what auger to buy that would suit my needs. A lot of the other stores were trying to sell me the big all singing and dancing 3hp 10" blade ones, and were not really answering my questions. The guy at the Fishin' Hole took me through the pros and cons of all the sizes and makes, and really listened to what i was saying. He suggested the 2hp jiffy Lightning, told me not to bother with the other one despite the fact he could've made an extra $200 selling me the other ones he had in stock. So although i have not purchased anything on-line from them....i would certasinly recommend the Winnipeg branch to anyone! Simon

awesome pike! through the ice? must have been fun!

The cheeks from the big girl got eaten...dont really bother with anything smaller than that, i have been kown to fry the belly fins too, but i'm kinda spoiled and usually dont bother with the extra couple of seconds work

thanks for the replies guy. Clampit, i have both red dace and chubs in my bucket at themoment, some of the dace look like they have been painted!!!! the red stripes on them are really amazing.

Holy #@$% That is a big perch. 10/10 for toughin it out in the freezing conditions.

Lakers and Whitefish for me

I measured upto 8 inches, nowhere i drilled was under 5 inches.....all black ice too. Just in case you are thinking of trying....the Burr Lake i'm talking about is in NW Ontario.....near Dryden....way up here near the Winnipeg border

Hi Y'all, Got out for a coule of hours today, went back to Burr Lake to see if there were any bigger walleye to be had than the last time we tried. Within 10 minutes of setting 2 lines down i had two pike on the ice Lots of fish on the sonar, most of it very small perch, but some bigger customers showing interest...but no takers. That s untill i swapped jigs for plain hook with sall split shot 6" up the line and just let the minnow swim around and was rewarded with a small walleye. As the sun started to set the weather improved The perch stopped sniffing the bait and started to bite more agressively....got through a lot of minnows in 15 minutes....lol Not many bigger fish showing on the sonar...so went out further despite convention to go shallow as light fades.......and was rewarded with another small walleye, one 17" and one just under 20". The bigger one was reallly fat, thought it mght have a perch in its gut, but turned out to be full of eggs!!! Was good to see there are plenty of larger fish to be had in Burr.......i'm gonna work my way down the logging road now and try Ingall Lake...followed by Pickerel Lake. Plan to expand my horizons again this winter and get to at least 5-10 new lakes i have not fished, i'd better hurry up and buy a snowmobile!!! Tight lines all!

Thats a grerat fishless report guys...die hard is an understatement.. lol....i cant believe you mananged to launch that boat with just a car in all that snow...CONGRATS...just for that. Great pictures too

LOLOLLOLOL Michael Jackson sold Neverland and downsized

Great fish ya got there. TY for sharing.