Frozen Turkey on Willard 11-24-22 (With Video)

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Well, our turkey and fixins were great, but we too spent this year with just us for the holiday. Looks like we should of went perchin instead of watching football, LOL

Nice job, way to tough it out! Glad no one shot at you for their turkey dinner! Bet those paddle boarders thought you must be crazy and maybe you are but getting all those nice perch is some good eating for several meals.

Ice fishing without the hard deck, IMO Hot Hands are great to have on hand for sure.

Thankee fer the kindly comments.  I'm also glad I din't get shot.  Sounded like WWIII right at daybreak as the quacker whackers cut loose at various points around the lake and in the marshes.  But with the clear day the birds went elsewhere and stayed out of sight the rest of the day.  At least it was a lot quieter. 

The paddle boarders didn't get very close...and they chose not to say anything or start a conversation.  But if I saw me out there in all my cold weather glory I probably wouldn't dare get too close either. 

Took me about a half hour with the nuclear powered Bubba Blade electric fillet knife but I reduced my pile o' perch to about a gallon of nice white fillets in about a half hour.  Time well spent after a day well spent.  Already had one good meal of tempura perch and have another 4 big meal-sized bags of fillets in the freezer. 

I have been loving and using those Hot Hands hand warmers for several years.  But have been relying on a double layer of socks...including one pair of Heat Holders...to keep feeling in my tender tootsies.  And that works until the water temps drop below 40 degrees.  But this year a (great) neighbor gifted me with a few packages of "Little Hotties" adhesive toe warmers out of the large box they got at Costco.   Tried 'em for the first time on Thursday.  I'll never leave home without them again in super cold conditions.  They are thin enough I hardly noticed them.  And the adhesive sticks very firmly to the socks...so they don't ball up or move around.   They didn't exactly give me a hotfoot but they kept me comfy enough that I never even thought about my feet all day. 

I had to give up ice fishing but I hope I can hold up for some more late fall perchin' on Willard.