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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 10, 2011
Subject:
Nod Brook WMA - Lower Pond 01/09
Message:
After checking out another pond that had sketchy ice, DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek), jonnyfly00 (aka Jon aka Shelly) and I decided to stick close to home and headed over to the lower (i.e., north) pond at Nod Brook WMA. We got on the ice around 10:45 am. It was cold, probably in the 20s, and very blustery. However, we enjoyed clear skies and sunshine, and solid ice underneath the drifting snow. We started at the channel on the north end of the pond, where we found a couple of parallel rows of holes. Whoever made them must have fished out the channel, because we landed only one fish on a tipup baited with a medium shiner. It was Derek's first fish ever through the ice and a nice one at that; a 13 inch, 10 ounce fatty yellow perch: [img:704a9d8051]http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8046/20110109nodbrookwmalowe.jpg[/img:704a9d8051] Being the hunter-gatherer that he is, Derek took it home to feed his family. Jon, who as usual was equipped with his Humminbird fish finder, bored tons of holes in the ice with his six inch StrikeMaster Mora auger. Hopping from hole to hole, he landed his first ever fall fish. And then, of course, he landed three more, and one sunny in between. Here he is with the largest of his fall fish: [img:704a9d8051]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4078/2011010914433671cropped.jpg[/img:704a9d8051] Meanwhile, Derek jigged up a small yellow perch, which I think was really the first fish that he's ever landed through the ice. This one went back down the hole before I could get a photo of it. Unfortunately, I got skunked, without even a nibble all day. Right when we decided to get off the ice at 2:45 pm, Jon noticed that the flag on Derek's tipup was up. Derek sprinted over to it and pulled up a nice fall fish: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSiodJzHZls[/youtube] I learned that I have to keep an eye on the wind forecast before heading out onto the ice. I was miserably cold all day. My fingers, especially, got pretty numb. The gusting wind produced snow devil cyclones and buried Jon's thermal tipup underneath a drift. Despite my discomfort, however, I think that ice fishing all day sure beats the heck out of not ice fishing all day.
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Jan 10, 2011
Message:
Funny video...lol Moved my previous report over here... I decided after seeing all of the ice fishing reports that it was time for me to hit the hard water. Phil (aka PECo), Jon (aka jonnyfly00) and I had plans to meet up at a Local Pond. Phil and I arrived first and began getting our gear ready to head out then I decided to actually look at the pond and noticed a large area of open water. We headed over anyway and Phil used the spud to check the ice and we found that it was not very reliable ice in the area we wanted to fish. Due to some sketchy ice conditions we decided to move on to Nod Brook. We arrived at Nod Brook just after 10:00am and found anywhere from 6" to 8" of ice. It was cold but not too bad except for when the winds picked up. I had a jigging pole and 1 tip up and Phil and Jon were mostly jigging although they did also set up a tip up. The first fish of the day was when Phil saw my tip up flag pop and I ran over and pulled in a nice 13" fat yellow perch. We were live lining minnows on the tip ups. [img:39a2060fac]http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2730/dscf0001d.jpg[/img:39a2060fac] Jon landed several fallfish ranging between 6" to 10" and he also found a little sunny. I believe he was using Swedish pimples with wax worms. [img:39a2060fac]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/51/dscf0002mw.jpg[/img:39a2060fac] I picked up my first fish on an ice jig which was a 9" or 10" yellow perch. I was using a nickel ice Swedish pimple with a "Roland Martin" wax worm from a can...lol...you gotta love it. As we were packing up and ready to get off the ice my tip up flag went up again and it was a good distance away. I made a run for it and pulled in a 12" fallfish. [img:39a2060fac]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7656/dscf0004dc.jpg[/img:39a2060fac] All in all it was a good day with some great company. It was only my second trip onto the ice and my first time catching anything. I'm hoping to get out again real soon. Unfortunately Phil didn't bring anything in but despite the howling winds I think he still had a good time. Here's a pic of my perch getting ready for dinner ;)... [img:39a2060fac]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/526/dscf0005o.jpg[/img:39a2060fac]
Author:
Flipper
Date:
Jan 10, 2011
Message:
What are you guys doing with all this pike bait your catching? I hope your saving it for the Pike Party II - Pike on Ice! Coming soon to a lake near you. :lol: Are you sure those are not white suckers? Mabey I've been using fallfish for bait all this time. :roll:
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