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Author:
PECo
Date:
Feb 16, 2011
Subject:
Beseck Lake 02/16
Message:
TurtleKiss (aka Kira), asianfisher (aka Billy) and I fished Beseck Lake, today. Billy had saved the six golden shiners that he caught in Papermill Pond a couple of days ago and we wanted to use them to try for some northern pike. Billy arrived at the lake about 45 minutes before Kira and I. When we got to the boat launch ramp at 11:45 am, he was skating around on the lake. I could see only one other person out on the ice. It was sunny with only a slight breeze out of the south and the air temperature was already around 40 degrees. We loaded up our gear and set off across the ice. The ice was hard, but pretty bumpy from all the traffic that had been on it when it was snow and slush. I had no problem crunching across it in my Hillsound Trail Pro crampons and Billy was flying across it on his skates. Kira, on the other hand, struggled just a little bit: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppCa-ZfaRtI[/youtube] We had decided to fish around the area where the channel to the dam meets the main body of the lake. Billy and I drilled holes with my eight inch hand auger and we set 13 or 14 tip-ups by 12:45 pm. Six were baited with the golden shiners and the rest with small to medium sized minnows. At about 1:00 pm, we got our first flag on the tip-up that was the farthest out in the main body of the lake. I ran over to it, but line wasn't spooling off by the time I got to it and the minnow was gone: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTvhFAgZU4[/youtube] Just before 1:30 pm, a flag went up on the tip up that was closest to the shore on the north corner where the channel meets the main body of the lake (i.e., by the red, cantilevered dock). It was one of the tip-ups that was baited with a shiner. Billy and I were pretty far away from it and, as we ran over, we watched Kira pull a ton of line out of the hole. When I was about 50 feet away, I saw her pull a massive pike about one foot out of the hole. I saw the top its broad head thrash from side to side when it snapped the 50 pound braided line that was spooled on the tip-up and sank back down the hole. It was definitely a 30+ inch pike. sonofab!$@# :x Yes, we had failed to put steel leaders on our shiner baited tip ups. :cry: No, we weren't very prepared. Heck, we had been lucky that Billy happened to have some 5/0 soft plastic bait hooks in his bucket on which to put the shiners in the first place. Lessons learned. Meanwhile, Billy and I had no action at all while jigging, not even a nibble. However, at 2:30 pm, we got another flag and, this time, Kira pulled up a 20 inch pike: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZfDk8Sh9rQ[/youtube] [img:460df6f545]http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2015/2011021620inchnorthernp.jpg[/img:460df6f545] This one had taken a small minnow. Big bait, big fish. Small bait, small fish. Speaking of small fish :? , I finally got my first nibble while jigging just before 4:30 pm and landed a largemouth bass: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdi5o5yGkU[/youtube] [img:460df6f545]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7492/201102164inchlargemouth.jpg[/img:460df6f545] It was a four incher, Dawg! Whoo hoo! I had been expecting the flags to fly as the sun went down, but it never really happened. We packed up as darkness fell and got off the ice at 6:00 pm.
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Feb 16, 2011
Message:
Nice job on the PW, Phil! Kira we need to get you some practice holding pike/pickerel by the gills. You could have pulled that sucker right out of the hole...No Fear!! :P Sorry to hear you lost it though. Sounds like it was a nice one.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Feb 16, 2011
Message:
The pike was thrashing pretty wildly, Dawg! I think the only thing that would have helped would have been a steel leader. Yeah, I still feel like an idiot for not bringing any. :oops:
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