pelican lake yesterday

[trfishin]

I picked up a friend of mine yesterday and we made the long trip down to pelican lake yesterday for our first trip.
We hit the ice about 8:45am at -17 below zero cold but the sun was popping out. we punched a few holes until we found some water that was 6 1/2' deep and my friend dropped in his flasher and Bam caught the first bluegill.

So we set up our ice shack and went to fishing. Soon the sun disapeared the fog set in and light breeze started up and it cooled off even more. The fishing was steady but not like it has been in years past fast and furious just steady but it kept us busy and lots of fun for sure.

We caught all our bass and bluegills on my custom plastics I make and some new ones im making now.

The bluegills were from 5" to 9" with the most averaging 7".
Then we got into some bass to. The bass were 10" up to 14" nice and fat like the bluegills and gave me a great fight on 4lb test for me. Then my friend showed me how it was done with his 2lb test[shocked] on a custom panfish ice rod with a 13" largemouth bass and some nice bluegills to. I have ever fished with 2lb test but im looking at getting me some to try out.

The lake is the lowest i have ever seen ice fishing but still a fun time we will go back and explore some different places on the lake soon. I snapped a couple cool pictures of the great sunset to
Good Luck on your ice fishing adventures [fishin]
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[wyoguy]

Great report, glad to hear some good news from Pelican., most reports haven't been too positive. We are planning on getting over there at least once. On a side note.... I don't think it ever gets above zero there!
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[hookngrinin]

Thanks for the report Jim. Great pics.
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[JLW]

Thanks for the report Jimmy. Did You talk Mike into going with you? Nice pictures.....Looks like fun. Fishon
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[lakepowellnut]

Great report and glad you had a good outing! We just ate the mess we caught on the 29th.
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[trfishin]

thanks guys it was a fun trip and looking forward to another one down there again sometime soon.

boat guy your right it is all most always below zero but have managed a few beautiful days that were almost T shirt weather down there.

Ron its nice to hear from you to we had fun I still remember meeting you and your family with my family on the ice having some fun on pelican lake. that was a T shirt weather day

Hey Jerry long time no chat with you. Nope Mike said he would rather fish out of his boat in the summer time that ice fish but hes missing out lol

boat guy thanks again for your recent report it helped out alot for those of us that are crazy enough to make pelican lake a day trip at 375miles[cool] It was great fun cant wait to try it again. Im working on some new plastics and cant wait to get back down to try them out

Good Luck Fishing [fishin]
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