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[davetclown]

the report is ice, we got sum,
not a lot, just some, a few area are walkable, nothing is stable.

you people who see snowmobils racing across the lake, they are hydroplaining and if they stop in the middle of the lake they will fall though...

fish report, slow, but sure was great to get out of the house for a couple hours...

baits being used, minnow, waxies, mousies, spikes, and berkley artificial waxworms.

neither was better or worse than the other... I caught and released a good dozen or so... nothing big, just average eaters.
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[davetclown]

My third day on the ice, we have 0-6 inches. this is still concidered first ice. so be safe and not sorry,

gills are hitting slow, seen a couple ciscos, a few small crappie,

I have yet to bring a fish home, I am looking for a couple lunker gills. [sly] 50#'rs
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[lonehunter]

I'll be out this weekend [cool].
I got a lure stealing pike I have a score to settle with [] !
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[lonehunter]

Single digets by monday for the highs [shocked]!
I can hear the ice making now , woo hooo ![cool]
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[davetclown]

remember in these temps, intentional icing in the woods is hazardous for your health. and dont go eatin no yellow ice cicles [laugh]
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[lonehunter]

Our mini- ice age marches on ......
I've already started scouting out the trails the deer are taking to and from the feeding and bedding grounds , this will give me a better shot at where to hunt the big bucks next season [] .
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[davetclown]

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Last years event was called due to lack of ice, this year we lost two more ice fishing buddies from our lake, Jim Pickard and Jim Pickard jr (Jimbo) Jim past last may, Jimbo passed just last week.


well there was at least 50 tipups out on the lake and in the cannal, the pike and walleye would not accomidate us on this day. Blue gill were a bit on the slow side a couple people pulled in thier limits with two capping the 5 pound mark. This years winner took the pot with 5 pounds 7 ounces.[/size][/center] [center][size 2][/size][/center] [center][size 2]200.00 was raised for the heart foundation.[/size][/center]
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[lonehunter]

Awsome pics and story !!!!!
How did you do ?
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[davetclown]

well the event started at 9am, I didnt crawl out of my crypt till noonthirty, I didnt get over there till about two, by the time I said howdy to every one, I didnt get to fishing till three thirty, the contest ended a 4 pm.

I took three gills. passed out some BFT stuff... It was more of a showing up thing for me than the contest part. I paid my dues but did not submit an entry...

all in all it was a real nice day.
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[davetclown]

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I went to union lake today for walleye, stayed for the gills and crappie.

I hooked on to a couple eyes, but there wasnt any thing of legal size so I released them. the biggest one was 14 3/4 inch.
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[lonehunter]

The females are putting on the feedbag around these parts [] .
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[davetclown]

kewl, a limit of pike.

you still have all ten digets?


[size 1]todays report,
9 degrees
Winds a blowin - chill temps below zero
snow a fallin side ways

gills hittin slow, took all day to pull in a limit of 25, that is 24 gills and one crappie.

by the time I caught my last gill the rest were clinking around like poker chips on a glass table... [/size]
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[lonehunter]

My boss from work landed these butes just below the Beaverton Dam on some rather thin ice .
I'm not brave enough to stand on ice thats heaving up and down in a spillway [crazy] .
The bigger gills are hitting up at Seacord lake , thats the hot lake in my area to be fishing !
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[davetclown]

I didnt see a pic, did you post one?

today the wind was blowing right out of the north, much the same as yesterday, only we had no cloud cover today, and the wind was blowing a might harder and colder....

kinda nipped at the nose if looked up wind.

gills were hitting slow much the same as yesterday.

we did get one suprize guest to show up for a photo layout, then back to the drink asap...
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[lonehunter]

Coulda used a ice-cream scoop to spud a hole out for that one [] .
He's got pretty stripes going down his sides , for a minute I thought it was a small tiger muskey for shure !
I just walked in the door from a nice -1 temp. , love these warm winter nights [laugh] .
Crappie have been hitting across from the M-30 D.N.R. launch site at Wixon Lake in Gladwin County on red and white jiggs .
No pics , just frose toes [crazy] .
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[davetclown]

speaking of heat waves.

here is this morning's temp at sunrise. look at the pic and tell me what temp it is...[crazy] Weather man said it is 2* degrees.

by my math the weather man says it is going up to 17 degrees today, that is a temp rise of more than thirty degrees in 6 hours! [shocked] WHAT A HEAT WAVE!!!
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[davetclown]

I wanted to add that, no, my thermomiter is not broken, I am watching the temp rise, at the time of this post it is 2* wormer that what the thermomiter read at sunrise...[laugh]

just as soon as it gets above zero, I will go fishing, now my snow shoveling is done...[cool]

If I try cutting a hole now it will just freeze up on me as fast as I can cut them... LOL[laugh]
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[davetclown]

here is the second half of todays report.

dispite the fridged start this morning, when I got out on the lake I found me a little nowle out of the wind in full sun. Break out the suntan loation cause I was worm and toasty in the heat of the day. 15* degrees.

fishing for the start was way slow at best. by noon I had caught a total of 3 keeper size gills and one way undersized pike on my tipup. [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/2554/cat/500/ppuser/89"][/url] [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/2556/cat/500/ppuser/89"][/url] [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/2558/cat/500/ppuser/89"][/url][/center]
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well the pike were a little active today, cause I caught two, the other one on a moon glo jig on a noodle rod. one northern was 10 inches and the other was eleven.

around 3 pm the bite started to pick up. by 5 pm we had a regular bite going on.

I ended up with a dozen keepers for the day

fryd them up for tonight's dinner.
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[davetclown]

[center]here is my report for fryday,[/center] [center]a big goose egg.[/center] [center]0 to 15 inches of ice.[/center] [center] [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/2565/cat/500/ppuser/89"][/url][/center][/center]

now on to todays report,
the bite is slow. but steady... steadly slow that is...

today I pulled in 3 perch. 1 ten inch and 2 eleven inch.
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[davetclown]

[size 1]Kids Ice Fishing contest kensington
I had a little time to get in a jig or two and caught me three perch, a gill and a red ear.

the bit was slow all day,
those doing the best were using micro and feness methods. light weight line down to one pound even half pound test line.
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