Early season Ice

[rhare]

Went out this weekend to do some early season ice fishing. The conditions where tough. Low pressure made it really hard to find fish. We spent a couple hours Saturday in the Orillia area

trying our luck at some eyes. The ice conditions seemed pretty good. Anywhere from 3-6" of blackice. I was really surprised that there wasnt more snow on the ice.

we moved around a bit and had some nice fish come in and bump the bait around a bit but no takers.

 

heres a pick of the ice depth

 

 

 

On sunday we decided to head north to a backwoods splake lake. After seeing the ice depth in orillia we thought it would be great up north. I hadent fished the lake for almost 3 winters, but we had decent sucess before ( 10 in a day) . We worked the lake up and down trying to track down some fish but NOTHING... Had a coulpe small fish follow the spoon around but that was it. The lake up north ( bracebridge area) ARE NOT SAFE!!!!!! there is lots of snow on top causing inconsistant freezing. IF YOU DONT KNOW THE LAKE WAIT A COUPLE WEEKS. ( 4" of snow--- 1.5" ice---2" water---1"-6"ice)

The bait shops have no minnows right now for a couple weeks so if you do head out bring the metal.

 

 

Lake looked sweet

 

 

 

Dan drilling some run and gun holes

 

Ice shot

[ccmtcanada]

Great report and nice pics! Even though the fishing was tough, at least you got out there. Thanks for the report.

[fishindevil]

Nice ice fishing report & pics !!!!!. ..well too bad ,you didnt get into some fish,but its great to see people out starting to ice fish ,thanks for sharing...cheers

[joonmoon]

If ya stayed warm and dry and the ice was good enuff to get on then you had a good day with or without fish. Keep at er they will come. Thanks for the tease.

Edited December 10, 2007 by joonmoon