Ice reports

[eyeguy 54]

another fun time on the ice

 

[IceHawk]

Nice shareing the ice with you guys also.  Always a treat being able to share the ice with others who have the same passions. The more I fish with you guys the more impressed Ive become.Tom and Eyeguy are great  sticks and it showed today on a tough bite. Yes our intent was to put the hammer down on some big gills but I think they were thinking different.as they were throwing us every curveball they could think of. As Tom stated they were definitely relateing to a deep depression  I was showing a lot of zooplankton which I assume they were feeding on. Schools were roaming a lot but by looking for (high flyers) fish suspended higher in the water column we were able to scratch a few bigger fish out. I cant believe how many different  jigs I tried and finally found the right combo small black fiska and two euros strapped on. Tom was persistent and kept holding his own on plastics especially after he lost a nice eye by the hole  Eyeguy definitely had the hot stick he iced a pile of nice gills and took the top honors today. Not sure what his combo was but he had something figured out. Great day on the ice again with a couple of good buds does it get any better  I doubt it

[eyeguy 54]

3 red euros on the little black jig worked the best for me. I think I showed it to you.    I dont know the names of all these jigs, I just throw them down the hole and wiggle em. i tried half dozen different plastics but they wanted red meat. lol  Next time out there I am gonna go with a bigger and brighter jig and see what happens. See if miss piggy might like it. 

[Weathertite]

Great job Guys , Stay safe and fish well my Friends!!

[eyeguy 54]

beaut of a day today. I hope you guys get back out. 

[Tom Sawyer]

Baked Bluegill. Mmmmmmmmm. 

[eyeguy 54]

might lose your mancard for  not frying those!   cooking thread would turn into sillytown 

[Tom Sawyer]

 Alternating frying with baking saves the heart......

SORRY, Don't do sillytown. Silly me.  

 

[smurfy]

15 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

might lose your mancard for  not frying those!   cooking thread would turn into sillytown 

eyeguy, its almost there already, the cooking thread.but I suppose you already know that!!!!!!

[eyeguy 54]

baking gills is like making backstrap jerky  

[smurfy]

50 minutes ago, eyeguy 54 said:

baking gills is like making backstrap jerky  

yep! just like eating gills without the skin on!!!!!!!!!!

  

[eyeguy 54]

I zip the skin off. 

[Tom Sawyer]

59 minutes ago, smurfy said:

yep! just like eating gills without the skin on!!!!!!!!!!

Baked walleye is great too! You need to try backstrap jerky, Royce, it's excellent. 1/4" thick Black Peppered or Cajun. Don't grind it up a squirt it out in your jerky gun, Straight muscle meat, now thats jerky dude.

As far as eating gill skins, no thanks. Lake mud just hasn't found a place in my diet.

[eyeguy 54]

18 minutes ago, Tom Sawyer said:

Backstrap jerky is excellent. 1/4" thick Black Peppered or Cajun.

 

 

we will stop by later to pick up your man card

[smurfy]

33 minutes ago, Tom Sawyer said:

Baked walleye is great too! You need to try backstrap jerky, Royce, it's excellent. 1/4" thick Black Peppered or Cajun. Don't grind it up a squirt it out in your jerky gun, Straight muscle meat, now thats jerky dude.

As far as eating gill skins, no thanks. Lake mud just hasn't found a place in my diet.

I use the cyclone scaling pail. takes a lot of that off then we scrape the skin against the grain. no mud!!!!!!!! was brought up this way. heck we use to clean our sunfish whole, till 3 little rug rats came along, then scaled and filleted!!!!

[huskybass]

On 1/10/2016 at 7:08 PM, Tom Sawyer said:

Baked Bluegill. Mmmmmmmmm. 

Any chance you could share the recipe?  Or point me in the right direction?

[Pannie snatcher]

I would also like this recipe! Very interesting!

[monstermoose78]

On 1/7/2016 at 7:40 PM, eyeguy 54 said:

, I just throw them down the hole and wiggle em. 

 Eyeguy I think you know what you are doing when it comes to catching big gills.

[eyeguy 54]

I just know that those gills tommy baked would make some great fish stew!

[Borch]

Very Interesting....

 

So how's the ice?

[eyeguy 54]

5 inches or so last week wednesday around here in a few places.  Gotta be getting better now.  

[Weathertite]

4 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

5 inches or so last week wednesday around here in a few places.  Gotta be getting better now.  

If you happen to get again soon EyeGuy would you please give us all an update on the ice conditions since our cold snap ?

Thanks for your help!!

Mike

[mmp98]

They were putting perm ice houses on some bays on lake Minnetonka today in spots were last week there was very little foot traffic. they had open water down there when we were 4 inches. 

[ThePundsack88]

Was out on watab in St. Joe yesterday afternoon, got a late start. Stupid house projects....was able to pick up a few decent sunfish. Found almost 8" of ice in most spots. This Cold weather has helped a lot. Early last week the same spot only had 3 to 4 inches

[Mncountryboy]

Was on horseshoe the Sunday before the cold snap found 8 to 9 inchs of ice where  I was fishing heading back out today didn't caught much since I was trying so new spots that didn't pan out off to the next spot. 

[eyeguy 54]

Made it out to a lake not far from Richmond today with icehawk to round up some crappies.  Fun city.  Found them in 22 feet close to the bottom and iced a lot of fish using smaller jigs with a few different plastics mainly black and white combos.   Ice was a foot or so thick.  Saw one small pickup out.  Fun fishing with you Chris !  Fish swimming in canola oil for supper!  

[Horseshoe_Don]

Checked the ice today.   Found 12" of solid ice all over shoe.

 

Don

[IceHawk]

Definitely a Blast today   Royce we definitely had a pile of fish under us for sure.  The bite was pretty consistent. I know we each iced a pile, hard to say how many  but I bet 35  plus for each of us for sure.  Its always a gd day when you can ice and throw back a pile of fish.  The fish were in a deeper depression as  stated  just off a flat. They were definitely keying on the pods of zoo plankton in the area  Saw a few different pods on the electronics.diffrerent times. It defiantely was a plastics day today. I tried numerous combos and colors but finally dialed them in with a black-black or white black combo. Custom jigs spins 5mm black heavy metal jig  and a black wishbone worked great on the aggressive fish. When they did get a little finiky I dropped a Lindy tungsten toad jighead  white and a black whisbone. Both worked equally good.   Really becoming a big fan of these whisbones they have helped me ice a pile of fish already this year. Looking forward to our next adventure  Enjoy the gd eats tonight!

Mn country Don't get discouraged if you don't connect on that system. Sooner or later you will hit the pot of gold that makes it all worth it!.. That system is a hard nut to crack, took me a lot of years to keep those fish dialed in on a consistent basis. My advise is every new spot you try is going to make you a better fisherman you learn from experience weather good or bad. Keep up the hunt!

[Borch]

Nice report guys.  Looks like to bottom drops out again this weekend.  

[Weathertite]

If I give you my address Icehawk you could drop off some fish for me , Great job and great report guys. I am definitely going to have to hook up with you guys at some point this winter. Stay safe and fish well Guys !!!!

Mike

Edited January 14, 2016 by Weathertite