Rich Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Hitched a ride out to one of my favourite haunts today in hopes of meeting a longtime fishin pal at the old spot. Got there a couple hours before Rob was supposed to arrive and set the hut up, put a pike line out and got base camp all good & ready. Indoors at base camp was pretty simple by myself. Bucket, rods, tackle and my Amp energy drink. lol After I got base camp set up I drilled a circle of holes around where I estimated the weedbed I was fishing to be. In every one of those holes, I was catching these: After a couple hours of moving around and stinging bluegill left right and center (none of them very big either) I decided to wait it out for Rob in the hut. Rob said his ride was delayed and he'd be a bit longer. Well to my surprise, in the very random spot I setup the hut, there were quite a lot of hungry crappies. Not quite slabs, but some decent ones in the mix. I released them all except one that literally inhaled my Kastmaster. Right when Rob says he's finally on his way, he has a ride, I, in an even more random series of events, hook a jumbo perch amongst the crappies! That thing was on drugs. It was right up high, sitting 3 feet below the ice with the crappies. The day continued, and I literally had the lake to myself the entire day. Rob never did show up, his ride played more tricks and he got stuck watching Call of Duty. Haha. He really missed out, too bad. My only disappointment in the flurry of action inside the hut is only one brief pike encounter. It was a modest sized fish (maybe 30") that smacked my Kastmaster tipped with a minnow, but soon after shook the hook. Inside the darkness of my hut I could actually watch all these fish feeding above the weedbed, that kept me occupied most of the day too. But alas, time went by and I had to pack up. While waiting by the ice access for my ride home I drilled around and found a shallow weedbed in 5' of water. It was loaded with more bluegills, that were willing to take my Kastmaster at first, then I had to downsize to cut up minnows on tear drop jigs. They hammered that. Amongst the small bluegills in this weedbed there was a random little perch that poked his head at the jig for a while before I finally got him. haha What a great day on the water. I did a lot of walking and drilling, and sitting and waiting, and jigging and jigging - but I do believe I couldn't have asked for a better payout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau But you already knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Urban Fisherman Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Awesome buddy! Very jealous! To bad there were no big giant slabs but I'd take a day like that any day of the week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercman Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Great report, and excellent pics.Thanks for sharing your adventure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shan&jay Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Sounds like a great day on the ice. How do you like that shelter? I'm looking to fet a pop up shelter and someone had a Celsius one for sale but I couldn't find any info on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Thanks for the kind replies. Sounds like a great day on the ice. How do you like that shelter? I'm looking to fet a pop up shelter and someone had a Celsius one for sale but I couldn't find any info on them I had a Cabelas Excursion hut before. It actually looked tougher than this one, but barely lasted a season. This one is going on 2 seasons now still looks and works like brand new. I cant really see any disadvantages to it besides the canvas isn't as heavy duty as other pop-up huts I've seen just gotta be careful with it. That being said, thats just a hunch so far there's no holes! It's big enough to fit 3 comfortably, light enough to slam on top of my sled and easy enough for me to completely set up by myself (including anchoring) in 20 minutes. In other words - I recommend it. I got mine at Wal-Mart. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthesteelhead Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Nice pictures again Rich. Nice to be out when it is so quiet,it is like you are in another little world just you and all those hungry fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 What a great day on the water. I did a lot of walking and drilling, and sitting and waiting, and jigging and jigging - but I do believe I couldn't have asked for a better payout. That line should be used in a fishing song. That Amp energy drink sure gave you copious amounts energy...that's a lot of ice trolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikehunter Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Good post Rich, nice to see the pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limeyangler Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Nice one Rich. Crappie, perch and pike...lol...i have no idea what that other fish is...JK. Great pics BTW, specially the close up crappie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyb Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Great report...I'm jealous....but still appreciative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Great to see you enjoying life BBR ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splashhopper Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 real glad to see your reports again Rich..... keep em coming pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PainInTheBass Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 There was a certain tone in that post which made me feel like I was there. I enjoyed that read very much. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdve23rveavwa Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Nice Rich!! Good day of solitude, and, fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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