Anybody getting out on the ice? Thought it might be fun to show why my 36 only has 40 hrs on it ........

Nice pics. Its colder than crap here in So Indiana but we have no ice. Which I'm glad you do and are taking advantage of it. There is something about cold water fish that just makes them taste better.

Randy

Thats pretty cool right there! Whats all that white stuff?

The ice fishing down here aint so good!

Them are some fine lookin "eater" Pike right there.

I haven't fished through the ice in years but do fish the river until freeze up and right after ice out.

Randy's right about the taste of cold water fish......Give me some walleye fillets from 32 degree water anyday......

That looks like some fun right there,,, minus the bitter cold.

Pictures can be deceiving, so are those pike bigger than the hole, or is the hole bigger than the pike??? LOL, cause the hole looks smaller than the fish.

Mitschke: the biggest northern was 11 lbs the smallest was 5.5 lbs three of them were over 30 inches. The auger in the pic drills a 8 inch hole. The crappies were around 12 inches.

Ice in the pics. is still 2 ft plus, although we had a melt off and it has opened the Dams back up so no more walleye fishing on the ice. Its fun to beable to go out when its 15 below, be warm and catch fish.....
Buck

ive heard yall get pretty wild in them ice fishing shelters, have big throw downs and party liek rock stars.

got any mods for them ice hole eaters ?

My brother in Vermont went ice fishing last year. He caught 25 pounds of ice. He took it home, his wife tried to fry it, and they both almost drowned

All this talk about ice fishing and walleye got me a trip to Culvers and got a walleye sandwich. Kind of bummed out now. Not very good. Them cold water walleyes is some awesome eating. We catch alot of sauger here and they are similar but smaller filet's.

Slew from what I have heard there are some monster walleye in Lake Cumberland and below the dam.
Couple years ago while hunting with Canuck he had caught some walleye right before coming home from bear/moose hunting. They were fresh caught and ready for filleting. We blazed them out and Canuck fried them up for us. Wow.
Buck I hear there is a trick to filleting those pike. I have caught them before but never did filet them due to hearing they are bony. Whats the trick?
Randy

We took 6 more home yesterday day from 6 to 13 lbs. The crappies are starting up again, but its 35 degrees and raining right now

Netman, Its hard to explain and I do it little diff. but this video gives you the basic idea. They eat wonderful once you pull the y bone out. There is also a bone in the tail that runs parallel with the fillet that he doesn't mention.
Buck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWyGrV0 ... re=related

Like I said in my PM Buck19-I had a bit of a problem with mine cause i'm out of practice BUT they taste good and we got 4 bags full-Nice day on the ice-Today don't look good but we got fooled by Cory Malles yesterday.
That video is good--

Forkin Eh on that video. Thanks and good work on those fresh batch of fish. Randy

I couldn't watch da video...... couldn't stand da way dat jackass talked. lol

Stumpgrinder, lol I know the feeling, a few years ago some round head from "down south" sent up a bunch of video for my bro to edit. Took two of use to understand the what the hell they were saying, but hey we suffered threw it. lol
Buck

Can you make a 6-8 foot hole so we can use a popping cork?

If I ever have a reason to be in the great white north when everything is iced over I plan on tryin a little ice fishin just to say I did it.


Closest I have been is fishin in 17 degree weather and havin to knock the ice out of the guides before every cast