12-13-2002, 01:07 AM
I went out this morning for a couple hours and listened to the ice ripples crack as they shot cross the lake.
Not a bite came my way, so about noon the sun was beating down on me and I was roasting like a thanksgiving turkey in my snow suit, so I decided to take a break and run in to town to my bait shop and pass by another lake I ice fish on to see if there was any activity.
Union lake was still open 2 feet around the edge by the boat ramp and there was still one open spot across the bay from the ramp. My bait shop was just a block up the road from union lake.
I pulled in to the parking lot and did not see my bait shop. It was gone (bankrupt from no ice last winter) there is a airplane hobby shop with puzzles. Needless to say I had to double back and go to the other side of town to my other bait shop.
I stocked up on wax worns spikes and mousies. Headed back home to go back out on the lake for several more hours before the gills and crappie started biting just before dark.
About an hour before dark I decided to move to the other side of the lake where I was in the morning, I ran in to a angler just setting up for the night fish.
He set up his rods first then proceeded to set up his tip ups he had his back to his rods about a hundred feet away from his rods, I was about 30 feet away from his rods, I was watching his rods while I was drilling my hole and took my eye off his pole just for a second and looked back and saw the end of his pole sticking up out of his hole and going down.
As fate would play it, it was his early Christmas present bran new rod and reel. on the up side the bottom was only 16 feet down, so we spent a good half hour trying to fish the rod from the bottom of the lake with success.
I had taken my bottom line fish/depth finder out and set it up, the bait fish was hovering around 3-4 feet below the ice and the gills and crappie were hovering about 2 feet from the bottom.
They would not co-operate till just before dark, I pulled up to gills before it got to dark for me to see any thing. I had not taken my lantern because I had not planned to stay out after dark. They were still pulling them in when I left. I went home and made my self a gill sandwich.
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Not a bite came my way, so about noon the sun was beating down on me and I was roasting like a thanksgiving turkey in my snow suit, so I decided to take a break and run in to town to my bait shop and pass by another lake I ice fish on to see if there was any activity.
Union lake was still open 2 feet around the edge by the boat ramp and there was still one open spot across the bay from the ramp. My bait shop was just a block up the road from union lake.
I pulled in to the parking lot and did not see my bait shop. It was gone (bankrupt from no ice last winter) there is a airplane hobby shop with puzzles. Needless to say I had to double back and go to the other side of town to my other bait shop.
I stocked up on wax worns spikes and mousies. Headed back home to go back out on the lake for several more hours before the gills and crappie started biting just before dark.
About an hour before dark I decided to move to the other side of the lake where I was in the morning, I ran in to a angler just setting up for the night fish.
He set up his rods first then proceeded to set up his tip ups he had his back to his rods about a hundred feet away from his rods, I was about 30 feet away from his rods, I was watching his rods while I was drilling my hole and took my eye off his pole just for a second and looked back and saw the end of his pole sticking up out of his hole and going down.
As fate would play it, it was his early Christmas present bran new rod and reel. on the up side the bottom was only 16 feet down, so we spent a good half hour trying to fish the rod from the bottom of the lake with success.
I had taken my bottom line fish/depth finder out and set it up, the bait fish was hovering around 3-4 feet below the ice and the gills and crappie were hovering about 2 feet from the bottom.
They would not co-operate till just before dark, I pulled up to gills before it got to dark for me to see any thing. I had not taken my lantern because I had not planned to stay out after dark. They were still pulling them in when I left. I went home and made my self a gill sandwich.
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