Ice fishing Yukon style.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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I have such a whack of pictures.

My buddy Tagish Ken schooling the Newb on the sonar.

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I hate this thing. Why would I want radar type evidence that there really are fish down there NOT biting my hook?


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Oooh, shiny! For bait we often use fish belly, bacon, chicken skin or pork rind. Note the stinger hook setup - that's the new idea this year.

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"Casting" out. That spoon will shoot out when free falling which allows you to cover ground from one hole. We often fish in deep water and that hole was in about 90 feet. The idea is to drop the lure right to the bottom, then bring it up a few turns, jig it, repeat until you are up and drop it again. Fish will often hit it on the drop for some reason. You can watch your hook drop on the sonar.

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Its just that easy!

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Some scenery pictures to go with the fishin'. Looking south down the Taku Arm of Tagish Lake. This spot is about a 15 min run from Jane's cabin.

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Another spot we tried but got skunked.

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We must've had a heck of a north wind in the early winter to throw water up on these rocks. It reminded me of pictures I've seen of the Great Lakes in the winter. The highest rock was a good 20' above ice level with ice right on top.

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Looking down a crack.

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Frost crystals. The biggest ones were the size of a kid's hand.

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I thought this was pretty resourceful. I forgot to bring a spoon or fork with lunch so Mac pulled the hook off a lure.

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Those of you with hand grinders know exactly what this feels like. Those last 6 inches make your shoulders burn!

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Different lake, black ice.

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When I finally broke through I was 6" from the bend. Needless to say I didn't drill another one. And I didn't catch anything for all my effort.

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This makes me smile. Bye bye ice, hello fly rod! Walking to the edge can be a bit iffy, but if you can see the ice is sitting on bottom its OK.

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That's it for the fishin' pics.

Mike
 
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I don't think I could icefish without my flasher. Even if they aren't biting I like to know if there are fish there. I also would never hand auger a hole through 38" of ice. I heard about some areas in South Dakota and Minnesota that were around that thickness. Crazy cold winter but now it is over... I hope.
Nice resourcefulness, a spoon for a spoon.

Tim
 
Mike,

Your pics of the auger buried almost to the hilt remind me of ice fishing on Lake of the Woods, MN side. A buddy and only took the hand crank the first time. We were going to drill a couple of test holes to fish before setting up the ice house. When we almost ran out of ice auger before breaking through we quickly decide we had found 'the' spot! We ended up getting our limits of walleye. The next trip we took the power auger!

Thanks,

Tom
 
I like your fishing pictures Mike! Especially that one of the auger embedded in the black ice. Is that a laker you caught? We just got into fishing for lakers the past few trips, they are fun to catch! Although I hear of guys fishing for them in over 100 feet, we were catching them between 23 and 27 feet. Shallow enough so that you could watch them hit from inside an ice tent. They do hit hard!
 
Don't feel too bad, last week's fishing report for Little Bay de Noc started by highlighting that extensions were required on augers to drill through the ice, which was around 40" in areas without snow cover...-4F this morning on the thermometer.
 
Hey Mike....saw this and thought of you....

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