i think i caught my first whitie???

[pikeie]

well today i was out on simcoe in kempenfelt bay to day. i was fishing for perch and the fish were scatterd around pretty good, i was fishing 40 FOW. so with the fish scatterd i droped down a williams jiggin spoon to try and attract some perch in to my other rig. well allmost instantly i got a few perch, then i got i better hit pulled it up and it was a herring, then droped it back down, my spoon was out of my flashers cone when it got hit hard. set the hook and the fish pulled some fair ammount of line and bent my mediam heavey rod way more then any herring, i got it on the ice and the fish was around 2 feet long and the mouth was just had a BIT more of an angle to it. so i was wondering first off if herring can get that long and from the poor discription i just gave you lol what do u think it was?? the fish was realeased because i wasnt 100% sure it was a whitie.

 

and on another note, while i was out we saw so people catching many herring in the 15-18 inch range and keeping them!! so i gave the mnr tips line a call and i gave a discription of the men. they asked for my cell # incase any CO's were in the area. almost 5 minutes later i got a call form a CO . so he came on down, but by the time they got there the men had taken off. they serched the parking lot (i couldnt get a plate #) but couldnt find anyone. so they went around the ice and got a few people with no liecence and such. it was sure good to see that that mnr line acctully works and that they had a CO in the area

[steverowbotham]

a couple weeks back i was whacking the herring on K-Bay but releasing them all, and one guy started keeping some and i gave him poop so he released the one he kept, packed up and left. At 24" I'm going to say it was likely a whitie.

[just2manylures]

Good on ya for reporting them

[misfish]

Good job dude. Yep I would say it was a whitie as well.

[LeXXington]

WTG Pikeie,..

 

Yeap sounds like a white fish.. Same as us fishing for perch and bang..

 

pity it does not happen more often it would get me out there more.. See you on the softwater

[Bly]

Good for you!! You not only caught some fish, possibly caught a new species for yourself (could list it like CCMT as a new PB , and you called in the "troops"!

 

bly

[pikeie]

yea lexx speaking of that i was out with a couple of first ice fishing newbies lol. at the end of the day on of them was using my little panfish popper rod he was wondering why it was taking so long to get to bottom. i told him to shut his bail maybe theres a fish on just swimming with it. right when he closed his bail the rod doubled over and almost broke lol. so with ths rod it obvisly wasnt ment for fish like this and it couldnt real it in. so i grabed the line (2 lbs test) and hand lined it, it was like pulling up a log with a few small headshakes. we got it to the hole and it just felt like it was wedged at the bottom of the ice, so while we were trying to get it head up, i took my arm out of my floater suit and was ready to try and grab "it". while i was doing this the fish decided to make one last pull and snaped the line. it was a preety big disapontment but the kid now wants to go back and try to get the fish lol.

[JFR]

Congrats on the whitie, very nice report. for calling the MNR

 

John

[motv8tr]

GOOD STUFF Pikie!!! a new PB, new species, and calling the MNR all in one day...good way to spend spring break Bet it was slushy out there today.

 

Maureen

[bassmaster4]

i caught 2 whities before they were both about 7 inches long they fought alright tho it was fun

[bucktail]

Could have been a herring , a few years a go my wife caught a huge blue back at 3 lbs.

I got a 12 incher yesterdsay on Cook's bay. Report and pictures to follow