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Winter 2010/11 fishing recap


Joeytier

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Well, I've only got maybe 1 or 2 more hardwater trips left this season if i'm lucky, so i thought i'd put together a little photo essay of my catches this winter. Not a spectacular year by any means, but I did manage two PB's and a healthy amount of bent rods, so I can't complain.

 

My first hardwater trip this year was out on Quinte. Got out a couple times in mid/late december for some chunky, early-ice eyes. Managed 6 walters over 2 trips, with an impressive average size, including a monster 10 + pounder my friend landed.

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A nice quinte snack

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The majority of my January and February was spent out on Nipissing. Fishing was typically fairly good, producing plenty of 10-14" walleye, a few herring and excellent jumbo perch fishing. My most productive perch and herring days were in 13-16 FOW and all of the walters came out of 28 + FOW.

 

Slightly worrying that I wasn't able to scrounge up at least a couple slot-sized walleye, but apparently others were finding them just fine. :thumbsup_anim:

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One of the more interesting trips of the year was a trip up north to a small trout lake with a natural population of brookies. I managed to land my first ever brookie through the ice, even though he was only a baby. Still a beautiful fish. We landed another one around 17" that hit a tip-up right before dusk.

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Also managed to make it down to Simcoe in early March to give the whities a try. After hours of running and gunning in the morning we ended up hitting a nice school of whities in about 100 FOW. Iced one, lost 2 more at the hole, and missed 2 more hits in about a 30 minute time span on a foxee. Marked schools steady for the rest of the day, but they had a serious case of lockjaw. Despite the insane wind, we perserveared and stuck it out for a few jumbos on the way in.

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One of the more memorable trips this year was spent out in the boat chasing after brownies on the big lake. Had two great days, landing 35 + brownies and two incidental walleyes, one of which being a personal best, or at least very close.

 

This little bullet was an average sized fish

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Sayonara, winter...

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