01-30-2011, 10:29 AM
I got out today for a little pan fishing, and that is about what I got, half dozen little pan fish.. [:p] They were taisty just the same.
deffenantly wear gloves when doing the tipups, If your a smarter man than me, you will take more than one pair of gloves...
those thin brown cotton gloves will work just fine. machein washable and easy to dry by hanging over top of the handle of the lantern should it become nessesary.
the smaller pike arent that big of a deal on the braded line, still fun to catch. the big ones can pull enough to pull the hook right out of thier stomachs, so it is important to let them run.
also if your smarter than I, you will have your gaff ready with you at your hole so that you can use it to lift your pike out of the hole, you might say I am the pike bite master. LOL
I have yet to sit down and count the number of battle scars on my hands from my reflexes getting the better of me, "pike bites from sticking my hands down the mouths of Pike to pull it out of the hole. Got some real doozies too.
seeing them and fealing their weight on a hand line is something you have to experience for your self before you get bitten with pike feaver.
I best way I can explain the adrenellin rush you will experience when you first start targeting pike is like watching an 8 point buck walk by you putting it off for a 10 point buck.
the greatest temtation is grabbing your tipup to soon, when you do that, it is almost a garenteed loss of a pike. staying away from the tipup and waiting for that second run is near nerv racking. not knowing if your fish has let go and/or is watching over it before it actualy takes the bait fully in its mouth.
Pike are cat like creatures, it first kills its prey, punching it and runnnig with it, then letting go as it watches untill it has quit moving and/or is ready to feast.
In michigan here, we are allowed to have three lines in the water, this allows me to fish for three different types of fish though the ice at the same time... "YA GATTA LOVE ICE FISHING" What other sport can you do that gives you so many options at the same time. I can target perch pike walleye gills crappie trout all at the same time... [cool]
as far as some one else coming behind me and fishing out of my hole, I am not woried about it to much, A lot of them have never produced a single fish, some holes are for one type or another. That is why it is so important to learn the structure of the lake your are fishing, the more you know about it and the better you know the habbits of the species you are tartgeting the greater your harvest will be.
Sounds like you could give tips on trout fishing though the ice, I have been wanting to give that a try for some time. I know of a stocked trout pond near me I have been druling over for years, "for ice fishing perpouses" Just to say I have done it and can do it proficentfuly.
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deffenantly wear gloves when doing the tipups, If your a smarter man than me, you will take more than one pair of gloves...
those thin brown cotton gloves will work just fine. machein washable and easy to dry by hanging over top of the handle of the lantern should it become nessesary.
the smaller pike arent that big of a deal on the braded line, still fun to catch. the big ones can pull enough to pull the hook right out of thier stomachs, so it is important to let them run.
also if your smarter than I, you will have your gaff ready with you at your hole so that you can use it to lift your pike out of the hole, you might say I am the pike bite master. LOL
I have yet to sit down and count the number of battle scars on my hands from my reflexes getting the better of me, "pike bites from sticking my hands down the mouths of Pike to pull it out of the hole. Got some real doozies too.
seeing them and fealing their weight on a hand line is something you have to experience for your self before you get bitten with pike feaver.
I best way I can explain the adrenellin rush you will experience when you first start targeting pike is like watching an 8 point buck walk by you putting it off for a 10 point buck.
the greatest temtation is grabbing your tipup to soon, when you do that, it is almost a garenteed loss of a pike. staying away from the tipup and waiting for that second run is near nerv racking. not knowing if your fish has let go and/or is watching over it before it actualy takes the bait fully in its mouth.
Pike are cat like creatures, it first kills its prey, punching it and runnnig with it, then letting go as it watches untill it has quit moving and/or is ready to feast.
In michigan here, we are allowed to have three lines in the water, this allows me to fish for three different types of fish though the ice at the same time... "YA GATTA LOVE ICE FISHING" What other sport can you do that gives you so many options at the same time. I can target perch pike walleye gills crappie trout all at the same time... [cool]
as far as some one else coming behind me and fishing out of my hole, I am not woried about it to much, A lot of them have never produced a single fish, some holes are for one type or another. That is why it is so important to learn the structure of the lake your are fishing, the more you know about it and the better you know the habbits of the species you are tartgeting the greater your harvest will be.
Sounds like you could give tips on trout fishing though the ice, I have been wanting to give that a try for some time. I know of a stocked trout pond near me I have been druling over for years, "for ice fishing perpouses" Just to say I have done it and can do it proficentfuly.
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