Acountdeleted Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Long days at work, a winter too warm for safe ice, I have been saving a lieu day for about 2 months now when I finally decided that enough was enough and that I was going ice fishing. Thecday got off to a terrible start. Slept in, got stuck in traffic and couldn't find the parking lot. It was 8am before I even set foot on ice. It felt like it was going to be one of those days. Got about 100m off of shore and set up in about 8 FOW. Lots of action down below. A lil foxie with a minnow landed me a few perch. Nothing big. Looking on Navionics I found a spot about a kilometere away that looked perfect. All the fishing magazines always talk about this. A shoal that goes up to 3 FOW with a big drop off. I made my way over andcset up my set line for larger fish and kept jigging with my foxie for perch. I saw a school come in on my flasher and started enticing them. Feeling weight on the line I realized it wasn't a school of perch. I didn't realize at the time but it was about 19 inches. Sweet! Something strange happened this day, I did everything thecfishing mags tell me to do AND IT WORKED! I fished for about 3-4 hours, landed 3 walleye and lost about 5 more. What a great day. My highlight was this pig. Couldn't contain my excitement when it came out of the hole. I figure probably around 4lbs. Word to the wise, a lot of the ice I was on was 5-7 inches of good black ice but I still found a few spots of 2 inch white 'crust'. Lots of good fishing opportunities out there but play safe.
NAW Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Great way to spend a day off!!! Nice fishin Jer
Joeytier Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Sweeeet eyes Jeremy. You've officially caught more walleye than me this ice season
misfish Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Nice. You did better then my day off, but then again, any day off is great.
Old Ironmaker Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Fantastic to read about someone's success today. Rather than breaking a foot because he's too lazy to use a door the way it was designed to work. The guys and gals here are Jonesin because of no ice fishing. How much for a flight from Ont. to Edmonton, West Jet out of Hamilton maybe?. They could fill the plane.
manitoubass2 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Fantastic to read about someone's success today. Rather than breaking a foot because he's too lazy to use a door the way it was designed to work. The guys and gals here are Jonesin because of no ice fishing. How much for a flight from Ont. to Edmonton, West Jet out of Hamilton maybe?. They could fill the plane. Zing!??? Those are some good size walters!!!
Freshtrax Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 nice going, ive never iced a walleye!
Rod Caster Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 Walleye whisperer! Who cares about a slow start when you end like that. Good show.
manjo39 Posted February 14, 2016 Report Posted February 14, 2016 Those are the best days off. Well done Jeremy.
Acountdeleted Posted February 14, 2016 Author Report Posted February 14, 2016 Thanks for the kind words guys. I finally have a lucky ice fishing spot!
esoxansteel Posted February 14, 2016 Report Posted February 14, 2016 Excellent Jer, i know youll be eating well for a few days
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