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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 27, 2013
Subject:
Lake Basile 01/26
Message:
I fished Lake Basile with DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek), NWDarkcloud (aka Bob) and JJay (aka Jason) on Saturday. We were on the ice from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm, and were the only ones out there all day, other than a man who stepped onto the ice with two young boys for only five minutes. Derek and I set seven tip-ups with small shiners near the bottom on the south end of the lake before Bob and Jason showed up. We found five to six inches of black ice with two to four inches of crap ice everywhere: [img:503c09b1a3]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8790/img4600cropped.jpg[/img:503c09b1a3] My Jeep said that it was eight degrees when we arrived and the air temperature probably never got over 20 degrees while we were on the ice. Yeap, it was cold out there. At one point, the chain on Derek's Kodiak jig froze solid: [img:503c09b1a3]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7434/img4592cropped.jpg[/img:503c09b1a3] However, it was sunny and the north wind barely blew until it gradually rose up to maybe five miles per hour around noon. I never felt cold all day. In fact, I really only felt the cold at all when I exposed my ears and my fingers, and they quickly warmed when I covered them back up, again. Warm clothing makes for a really nice day out on the ice! :D Jason had never been ice fishing, before, and Bob hadn't used a hand auger in a long, long time, so it was fun watching them [i:503c09b1a3]s-l-o-w-l-y[/i:503c09b1a3] and awkwardly drill holes with my eight inch Nils hand auger. :lol: Derek and I moved around a lot more than Jason and Bob, so we used Derek's smaller six inch Strikemaster Lazer hand auger, which quickly and easily drilled holes with only 12 to 14 cranks! Derek iced the first fish, a sunny, while jigging in the relatively deeper six foot deep water toward the center of the lake with his waxie tipped Kodiak jig. Bob iced a sunny and a largemouth bass, also while jigging near the center of the lake, but with a waxie tipped perch eye jig: [img:503c09b1a3]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/416/img4593cropped.jpg[/img:503c09b1a3] I think he was actually smiling under there! :lol: Jason and I got skunked while jigging. :oops: He jigged a waxie tipped perch eye, while I jigged a waxie tipped micro jig, an unbaited Perch Rapala Jigging Rap, the Jigging Rap baited with a waxie, and a fluorescent green and yellow Hali jig baited with a waxie. We got four flags. When I got the first one, the shiner was gone. :x It had been lip hooked with a treble hook. When I checked the rest of the tip-ups, another shiner that had been hooked the same way had been stolen from one of them. I replaced both missing shiners with shiners that were dorsal hooked with the treble hooks. When I got the second flag, the shiner was gone. :evil: It had been lip hooked[i:503c09b1a3][b:503c09b1a3] and[/b:503c09b1a3][/i:503c09b1a3] dorsal hooked with treble hooks. :shock: Derek iced the first tip-up fish, a largemouth bass, when he noticed that one of the tip-ups was moving, even though the flag hadn't flown: [img:503c09b1a3]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8954/img4596cropped.jpg[/img:503c09b1a3] The fish had wrapped the line around the tip-up's spool, which kept the flag from flying. Of course, that shiner had been lip hooked with a single long shank hook. :? Derek also got the third flag and iced another largemouth bass: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2p-JcO4f_A&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] The fourth flag flew when I walked over to check the tip-up and stopped one foot away from it. The flag almost hit me in the face :shock:, but I finally iced a largemouth bass. I think that I must have spooked the fish when I walked up to the tip-up. The shiner was in its belly and the big treble hook was in its mouth. Our catch rate on our tip-ups was only three iced out of six hits. The biggest of our four largemouth bass was the first one that Derek had iced, and it was only 12 to 13 inches long. I got skunked while jigging at Lake Basile. I didn't get even a nibble. I couldn't handle the shame :oops:, so I stopped by the upper pond at Nod Brook WMA after lunch to find and jig an old open hole. By that time, the sun was dropping quickly and the north wind had risen to 10+ miles per hour. It was blowing the crystalline snow like sand over the ice. One of the three groups I saw was leaving as I walked out onto the ice. They said they had caught only a few black crappie. As I passed another group, a flag flew and they iced what looked like a nice 2-1/2 to three pound largemouth bass. But they reported a slow day, too, with only a couple of largemouth bass. I found an open hole near the duck blind on the south end of the pond in 15 feet of water. I had a really good hit on my first drop to the bottom with my waxie tipped Hali jig. I had a dozen waxies stolen by what I knew [b:503c09b1a3][i:503c09b1a3]had[/i:503c09b1a3][/b:503c09b1a3] to be a sunny before I [i:503c09b1a3][b:503c09b1a3]finally[/b:503c09b1a3][/i:503c09b1a3] set the hook on it :D: [img:503c09b1a3]http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/222/img4601cropped.jpg[/img:503c09b1a3] I had been feeding it waxies for 45 minutes :roll:, but I got it and could finally head home. Phew! 8)
Author:
SeaDog1
Date:
Jan 27, 2013
Message:
Hi, Ooooooh! The cold ! :shock: Looks like you all got a bit frostbite on your faces ! [img:ef660f3924]http://www.ctfishtalk.com/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18599[/img:ef660f3924] SeaDog1 :mrgreen:
Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 27, 2013
Message:
[quote:fc11e28665="SeaDog1"]Looks like you all got a bit frostbite on your faces ![/quote:fc11e28665] Windburn, maybe, but not frostbite. :wink:
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