Quick weekend report

[bigugli]

Friday morning I hooked up with icefisherman and his cute son, Jordan. The target being smelt. After we were st up, the bite was slow but steady. After an hour someone flipped a switch and everything stopped. Smelt would not come off the bottom. With a lot of teasing we could get a few to rise every 1/2 hour or so, but it was a lot of work to get 4 dozen smelts.

Always happy to see young Jordan. A smiling ball of energy.

Emil, the smoked fish and sausage were excellent.

 

On to this morning. RobD and myself set up in a local marina. hoping for perch or trouts. Caught the tail end of a morning bite, and had enough for a meal. Water was gin clear, and we could see a few oversized perch down the hole, but they weren't biting. Around 11 the bit turned off. Nothing to be seen anywhere, other than a big pike. Kind of explains why the perch disappeared.

Nothing wrong with a perch dinner.

Edited February 13, 2011 by bigugli

[Leecher]

Sounds like you guys had a good couple of days on the hard stuff Bruce

Tough bite... yeah sometimes... and sometimes they turn on like magic

Thanks for sharing

Jacques

[crappieperchhunter]

Bruce...that Cliff guy must have cleaned all the smelt out

 

Sorry you guys didn't have a better day Emil...but you got yourself an honest to goodness life long fishing partner in that young man...count yourself extremely lucky

[icefisherman]

Appreciate the annual invite Bruce.

It sure made Jordan smiling year to year and talking about it to his brother and neighborhood friends.

Smelts were not as numerous as last year but there could only be one reason for it - someone (read Steve) has caught them all last weekend) ha ha ha

Oh well it was a nice day together.

Looking forward to see you aboard my salmon fishing machine in the summer.

 

Cheers,

Ice Fisherman