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He speaks the truth...........

Solo.....you torment me once again...lol...awesome.....i think they should ban you from fishing for trout....you make it look too easy! Those fillets look yummy!!!

Ok...i know absolutey nothing about hunting....but looks like a great time was had...great pics too. Congrats on the PB

Awesome report....like Rich says...i guess i will have to fish vicari...vicarusily...oh pooh...i cant spell that...but you know what i mean lol.

Year round open season for Lakers!!! you lucky...lucky....#@%$# Look forward to the reports...i'm heading off with my pickerel rigs and bobber on Monday for shore sesh down the road on Eagle Lake...hoping for some 'eyes too....good luck!

Congrats on the PB

too funny guys. Thanks for posting Kemper.

Great report JWL. Nice looking fish. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent report. great fish. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent stuff Rustic...lol...likewise...i wish i had your problems I had a similar thought last fall whilst trekking through the bush near Sioux Lookout following the Pelican Falls rapids with my rods, dressed in khaki and brown with a fur hat on...lol...BOY DO I LOOK LIKE A DEER! granted deer dont walk upright or talk to themselves(i tend to do this when alone...lol) but to a hunter whose been poised to shoot for 5 hours........ Thanks for sharing

Awesome Moemoe. Never caught a musky myself...wish i could though...lol. That downrigger shot is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Iceshanty is a great site.

Well thats it for another season for me....no more boat trips this year. Thanks fo all the fun guys and girls...but with the help of some useful posts on here...i have winterized my tin pot boat. Now i will sit and wait for the ice......its too darn warm here at the moment...but the minus temps are starting this saturday...so shouldn';t be too long a wait. I might ge some shore fishing done in front of the house...lol...but apart from a few small walleye this time of year...it sucks! There are a few other shore marks i can go to...but its hit and miss....sooooo....i just dream of getting on the ice this time of year. Cheers Simon

thats just great! your absolutely haulin' 'em out at the moment Solo....keep up the good work.

Great stuff joonmoon Lol...as a man who has recently needed the assistance of others whilst on my adventures...I SALUTE YOU! Supper looks tasty by hew way....

Thats a real fat walleye , Nice fish

Nice one solopaddler...great pics, great fish ...as per usual..lol. I like the bit about points in the bank....know exactly where your coming from.

ROTFL....too funny.Cliff they are all so mean to you....they must really love you! Excellent fishin' there bud...big congrats on the PB

All done, wow television is sneeky, i knew more about dave mercer than i thought!!!

WTG those are awesome 'eyes

That was great...but man o man are we screwed!

Fantastic stuff Gerrit, that sure sounds fun, and a sweet rod and the end too.

I have not fished Cuba, but have fished in the carribean (Grenada, Antigua, Barbados and the British Virgin Islands). I have seen those "fishing the flats" shows when they are in Cuba and those areas look pretty similar to the ones i have fished elsewhere. Whilst i would love to take a deepsea charter for the experience...they are always way over my budget. Instead i have had the time of my life fishing mangrove flats...you can catch Trevali, ( member of the Jack family) Permit, Barracuda, Shark (usually small white tip reef sharks) some big snapper sometimes, tarpon, snook....i even caught large stingrays while trying small crab baits i collected from under rocks on shore. I used light spinning gear with a good wire trace and anything from topwater poppers to live baitfish caught myself with sabiki rigs from docks and off the rocks. ALL THESE FISH FIGHT LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE>>>EVEN THE SO CALLED "SMALL ONES". Have a blast if ya go, i'm only slightly....tiny bit jealous ...lol...look forward to seeing the posts, will be a welcome winter warmer.

Hey Bluegill, Thanks for posting this topic. Ever since I moved to Canada almost 2 years ago i wanted to try for Whitefish, and last winter i got the chance. Now they are my second favourite target species behind lake Trout, They are big, fight pretty hard and where there's one there is usually a whole lot more...makes for exciting days fishing. THEY TASTE GREAT TOO!!!. An added advantage up here where i live is that the lakes i fish for Lake trout tend to have whitefish too. All the methods/tackle discussed so far by the other members are proven winners for whitefish. I think it depends on what lake you are fishing though, as in my limited experience it varies quite a lot from lake to lake what is the MOST effective tackle/bait/method. I got taken to Shoal Lake by a member of an ice fishing forum, who swore by, and advised me to bring Swedish Pimples(small) and 1/8Oz or smaller jigs with Micro tubes....so off i went and got them. SWEDISH PIMPLE.....this was a picture I used last spring to show folks back in England what i use here....that’s why there is a British pound coin for scale MICRO TUBES GOLD JIG WORKED WELL ON SHOAL LAKE, Google Earth co-ordinates: 49 33 04.45 N 95 00 13.43 W MY CATCH ON SHOAL LAKE THAT 1ST TIME OUT After that 1st time out i was hooked...so to speak....what a great fish to catch and eat. I then was desperate to find a lake that was closer to me, as Shoal lake was a 2 hour drive. After looking through the Off road Mapbook, i decided to try Big Sandy Lake, only half an hour away which also held Lake trout. First time out i was not successful, despite getting two break offs almost immediately on the micro tubes. ALL I MANAGED MY FIRST TIME OUT WITHOUT A GUIDE Like i said i did get 2 very distinctive whitefish bites on the micro tubes, and before they snapped off they certainly fought like whitefish. My problem that day was 2 fold. Firstly I had been advised to use very light line, as little as 4lb test because whitefish are spooked easily apparently. So i decided to use a fluorocarbon line leader for extra stealth. My knot was not strong enough though...hence the break offs. I did get advice later and was told to use either a TRILENE KNOT or a PALOMAR KNOT. By the end of the season i was using Micro Ice braid line...better bite detection, with a 3 meter leader of 6lb Vanish Transition Fluorocarbon. Second problem that first time out is that i was not reading my Fishfinder right. I had only had my Lowrance X67c for 4 days, and had never used a fishfinder before. What i thought was interference on the screen, turned out to be a thick cloud of smelt that extended 3 meters up from the bottom, and with hindsight i was right on a hotspot that first time...if I’d known how to use that fishfinder i would have hammered them! This is not to say that you need a fishfinder...but i would highly recommend using one when fishing for whitefish....it shows perfectly what technique/lure is being rejected accepted. As you can see from the picture i had tried using a WILLIAMS ICE JIG. I got this idea from a helpful member of an ice fishing forum who posted a pic of all the tackle he used for Whitefish on Lake Simcoe......... A SELECTION OF LURES USED FOR WHITEFISH ON LAKE SIMCOE, POSTED BY A GUY ON AN ICE FISHING FORUM On my way back across the lake on that day...i bumped into some guys who were catching fish. They were really helpful. They shared a lot of good tackle/bait/technique info with me and even better was one of the guys had exact same fishfinder as me, ahhhhhhh....so that’s how to use it...lol. They were catching both trout and whitefish, mostly using a small white jig tipped with a small minnow. I was very surprised to see the size of trout they were catching on such small minnows, as another lake i go to for trout, the trout will only really go for big tubes or large dace/sucker minnow THESE GUYS TAUGHT ME ALOT...THEY EVEN ASKED IF I WANTED TO SIT AND FISH WITH THEM A WHILE...THEY TOOK PITY ON ME....LOL <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> THEY HAD A GREAT MIXED BAG OF WHITEFISH AND TROUT The next day i went back to that spot, and armed with small minnows and white jigs, a good idea of how my fishfinder worked and some good quality small live minnows. Needless to say we did great, and i cant wait to get out and expand my knowledge for this species, try a few more lakes that hold them and post some good reports. Once again...thanks for posting this topic, its really got me looking forward to ice fishing even more than i was before. I hope some of this helps, you probably know all the knot stuff already as I’ve seen your posts before and you look quite the accomplished fisherman anyway. In summary i would say... 1. Everything tackle wise that’s been posted on here by all the members works great, but obviously there will be some that work better on different lakes...or at differently times. 2. Use a light line...they are picky fish at times. 3. If you don’t have a fishfinder for the ice...GET ONE!!! HERE'S A FEW OF OUR FISH FROM LAST SEASON AT BIG SANDY LAKE.... Google Earth Co-ordinates: 49 48 43.38 N 92 21 42.37 W <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Look forward to seeing your posts for whitefish

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