No shortage of ice. :)

[DRIFTER_016]

Got out for a little fishin' today close to home.

Hit the ice at dawn and didn't get off until dusk 5 hours later.

At least it was a nice warm -20 degree day!! Sure beats the -40 highs a week ago.

The lake is a lesiurely 3 minute snowmobile ride from my door, so I don't know why it's taken me 4 years to fish it.

Probably because it's too close.

Got out, picked a spot and drilled a bunch of holes off a bluff covering water 10' to 35' deep. Set a ciscoe on a tipup shallow for pike and jigged the rest of the holes for eyes and whities. Fish were showing on the Marcum almost non stop but they were non committal for the most part.

 

I managed to land 1 small pike about 4# on the tipup and 1 smallish whitie on a Bad Boyz jig tipped with a minnow. I lost two other fish (walleye I think) and had about 1/2 a dozen bumps from whitefish (I think a shiner can hit harder than they did today) I wouldn't even had known they were hits without my trusty LX-5 as the rod tip only moved about 1/8" when they hit it.

Any how on to the pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS I also have a video entered in the WFN contest.

 

Ice Road Fishers the Movie

[Leecher]

That's pretty cool Dave Funny how close waters never get our attention and from my vantage point... I'm basically surrounded by rivers, lakes and streams

Nice looking whitty btw

Thank for sharing

Leechman

[danc]

I didn't know you had Walleyes up there Dave. Looks like a nice day out.

[Smarty Pantz]

Wicked pics and fish & I voted for ya

[blarg]

Kam lake?

[Terry]

nice

 

 

No shortage of ice...

 

 

 

at first I thought you were picking on us that don't have much safe ice

LOL

[highdrifter]

Minus 20 up there is still way better than our minus 20..

 

Number 3 is a great shot!!

[DRIFTER_016]

Kam lake?

 

 

Yep.

I can see it from my front porch, so I figured it was time to fish it.

Nice and close for those short days in December and January.

[misfish]

Thanks Dave for the report.

 

Whities are great table fair.

[solopaddler]

Well done bud. (and voted as well)

 

I'm hoping you'll put together a vid of our trip next spring.

[DRIFTER_016]

Well done bud. (and voted as well)

 

I'm hoping you'll put together a vid of our trip next spring.

 

You bet!!!

It's going to be an epic video!!!

[blarg]

Yep.

I can see it from my front porch, so I figured it was time to fish it.

Nice and close for those short days in December and January.

 

 

Thought i recognized it, i have caught lots of walleye off of that point.

[solopaddler]

You bet!!!

It's going to be an epic video!!!

 

Awesome, you've definitely got a knack for it.