Mark W
Well-known member
First some bad news - the 5th Annual Travis Bruce Ice Fishing tourney has been cancelled for the year due to lack of ice, and fish as you will soon see. Tourney is being relocated to a local haunt know for having the best walleye around. If we can't catch the fish this year, we can make sure we eat some good fish. Since we will not be able to determine the winner based on fish count this year and who gets to take home the travelling trophy, I got a couple of decks of "Go Fish" and figure this years winner will be the winner of the "Go Fish" game.
Went out last week to tag a couple of fish for the tourney. Went to the spot where there are usually a bunch of fish although typically smaller in size. Drilled a hole, dropped down the transducer and nothing - not a single fish. Drilled holes from 32' all the way to 9' with the same results - nothing. Very strange. There was one other group on the lake we could see and soon they snowmobiled over to our location. They had been drilling holes all day and couldn't locate the fish either. We decided to move to the other side of the lake and try our luck at 10' in a spot that had a weedy bottom, Maybe they were there. Walked over to the spot, drilled a hole and - Nothing again. One single lone fish at the bottom. Figured this was going to be it.
Went to work on catching that loner and a couple of minutes later I was rewarded with this fine catch. Don't know if it is bigger or smaller than the last fish I posted a pic of - you can let me know what you think. Notice the forward arm thrust to make it appear bigger than it actually is. Turned out this was about the biggest fish we caught that evening. Ended up with 35 or so with a total weight that had to be almost up to 2 pounds - maybe - soaking wet...... All went back to grow bigger for next year.
Ice fishing is done for the year. Actually went golfing yesterday - earliest date since I have kept track of this sort of thing. Almost 70 degrees here today.
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Mark W
Went out last week to tag a couple of fish for the tourney. Went to the spot where there are usually a bunch of fish although typically smaller in size. Drilled a hole, dropped down the transducer and nothing - not a single fish. Drilled holes from 32' all the way to 9' with the same results - nothing. Very strange. There was one other group on the lake we could see and soon they snowmobiled over to our location. They had been drilling holes all day and couldn't locate the fish either. We decided to move to the other side of the lake and try our luck at 10' in a spot that had a weedy bottom, Maybe they were there. Walked over to the spot, drilled a hole and - Nothing again. One single lone fish at the bottom. Figured this was going to be it.
Went to work on catching that loner and a couple of minutes later I was rewarded with this fine catch. Don't know if it is bigger or smaller than the last fish I posted a pic of - you can let me know what you think. Notice the forward arm thrust to make it appear bigger than it actually is. Turned out this was about the biggest fish we caught that evening. Ended up with 35 or so with a total weight that had to be almost up to 2 pounds - maybe - soaking wet...... All went back to grow bigger for next year.
Ice fishing is done for the year. Actually went golfing yesterday - earliest date since I have kept track of this sort of thing. Almost 70 degrees here today.
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Mark W
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