Ice Fising Wrap-up

[trapshooter]

Hey Gang, it's getting down the last of the ice up here. You've got to pick and choose your spots now, but I've been off the big lakes since last Tuesday.

 

Thought I'd share some pics from the latter half of my ice season.

 

LOTW Pike on a tip-up/quick strike rig with a big live sucker.

 

 

We had a blast with these whitefish on a lake about 30 mins from home.

 

 

Good numbers of whitefish and always a welcomed treat when one of these guys would show up.

 

 

Seems every lake I fished this year I managed to find one of these guys.

 

 

I finished my season on Lake Minnitaki, which is all of 5 mins from town. It's a massive system in itself and has excellent walleye fishing as well and nice pike and lake trout.

 

We were intercepting the big walleye on their way to a spawning river. It was actually difficult to catch fish under 18" to keep for the pan.

 

 

 

 

Some buddies with nice walleye.

 

 

 

 

Although we were targeting walleye it's always nice when a couple surprises show up.

 

 

 

Real early spring up here, that's for sure. A couple spots open now for launching a boat. Walleye doesn't close till April 14th so the next outing will be in the boat.

[Leecher]

Great report, fish and pics Ben

That one is real dark colored... a very nice surprise in deed

Thanks for taking the time to post and share with us Ben

Great job!!!

Leechman

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

beautiful fish. especially those lakers!

[raptorfan]

very very nice

[TDunn]

Amazing fish Ben! I would love to ice fish NW Ontario sometime soon!

Thanks for sharing

 

TDunn

[limeyangler]

Great stuff Ben.......this weather is nuts eh? (did you just say eh?)......i'm taking the boat to Eagle Lake tomorrow....YUP...THE FREAKIN BOAT!

[skeeter]

gee ben you sure are a nice guy.

do you get pleasure out of making grown men cry?

 

may the flea's of a thousand camels crawl up your crotch and your arms be to short to scratch ....

 

very nice report

[waterwolf]

very jealous, gotta tell ya!! sucks not gettin any eaters under the 18in. what??

that dark laker is just amazing ,, colours are crazy. congrats on a great post.

[irishfield]

GREAT stuff Ben !!!

[pikeie]

Great report ben! Cant wait to get up to the woods agian, only 5 weeks!

 

agian great job!

[tibbs]

Nice Job!

 

Sounds like you had a great day on the ice.

[Terry]

nice job

[johnnyb]

That settles it. I'm moving to NW Ontario! Awesome pics man...looks like you had yet another great season. Is there anything that Lindy Darter WON'T catch??? Just curious...is that the rainbow smelt colour that keeps appearing, or something else? I like it...

[Steve Piggott]

Great pics Ben.The turkey down hear have been calling you.Lots of gobblers around.

[trapshooter]

That settles it. I'm moving to NW Ontario! Awesome pics man...looks like you had yet another great season. Is there anything that Lindy Darter WON'T catch??? Just curious...is that the rainbow smelt colour that keeps appearing, or something else? I like it...

 

Yeah the lindy darter has been good to me. Catches pike, walleye, trout and I even had a whitefish slam one. That colour is called bluegill!!

[Spiel]

I'm impressed, again.

[Chugger]

Nice work as always Ben. Glad to see you're still nailing them up there. Your posts always make me wonder why I insist on sitting at a desk in Toronto for a living!

Hope all is well with you.

Cheers,

-Graeme

[NAW]

Great report Ben,

 

Looks like you had a productive season.

[WeedLine]

That was a great wrap up Ben. Some really nice dark fish. That first pike looks really long. I bet you guys caught a lot more that weren't photographed. Good luck in the open water season.

[fish-miester]

great report! man your makin me jealous

[trapshooter]

Thanks gang!

 

Good to hear from you Graeme. Let me know when you can get away from the desk in TO and start living the dream.