Great First Hard Deck Trip

[k2muskie]

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[font "Calibri"]Destination was Pineview using trusted info from trusted folks. Arrived about 0720 and temp was -13 departure at 1400 temp was a balmy 14. [/font]
[font "Calibri"]We suited up and off we went popped a few holes checked depth…hmmm moved on and boy I’m sold on my new Milwaukee drill and Nils auger setup…no more gas for us…drilled them holes with no problem…anyhoos finally found a good depth that was strongly recommended 40-45’ dropped lines and within 5 minutes it was fish on and if we weren’t rusty on the hook set would’ve had our limit much sooner. Bite was on for a good 2 hours. Then was sporadic until the cloud cover came in and it was fish on again. Fish were on the bottom up to 4-6’. Dead sticking didn’t produce a single fish…at least for us. A slight jigging action not aggressive produced for us. [/font]
[font "Calibri"]Ice thickness where we were at was 8"...however a couple days ago I checked another area ice was only 4" and as you got out farther dropped to 3"...so be careful. We did see an ATV on the ice a little farther out then we were...so if you take a sled our ATV please be careful and exercise extreme caution...didn't see any other vehicle on ice and this ATV was not in the middle.[/font][font "Calibri"]
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[font "Calibri"]WyoGuy and his nephew along with his co-worker met up with us about an hour or so later…they did very well also…great folks lots of laughs and a very nice and pleasant time with these fine gents.[/font]
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[font "Calibri"]Lures we used: Partner was using chartreuse nuclear ant and also glow moon tipped with waxie. I made myself a setup Snell tied up some of TD horizontal jigs tipping with wax worm and caught fish on all of them no multiple hookups but fun all the same…it was a great outing for us being our first real ice fishing adventure for 2016 we both got our limit of Crappie…average size was 9” with a couple over 10” pushing 11”. Crappie looked very good and not paper thin like past seasons…it was fun just being out on the ice again. [/font]
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[font "Calibri"]A big thank you to Mike Hall for the electric and also battery powered Berkley fillet knife…finally got to use it and WOW this fillet knife is awesome and made filleting them Crappie a breeze and it was quick had them all filleted and soaking in water in about 45 minutes…Life is good…[/font]
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Thanks TD for the lure...awesome

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[PACKFAN]

Looks like you had a good day on the ice. The wife and I took our snowmobile rentals back this morning and got a look at our new 2016 Polaris at the dealership that was delivered this past week while we were up in WY. hunting. I think that the wide trak is going to work out fine for us. It was cold up in WY. this past week, one morning it was -15 and the next it was -19, cold riding on the machines but we had fun and saw a lot of elk, just not a bull she wanted to take. Looks like it's making plenty of ice to the North of us so should be some good sledding in a couple weeks.
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[albinotrout]

Looks like a crappie of a day.
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[wyoguy]

Well Kim it was fun fishing and shooting the bull with you guys again. It could have been a little warmer, but I guess that's life. Good fishing makes up for cold weather.
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[Springbuck]

[:p] I don't believe you! Anybody who says the got a Nuclear Ant to sink 45 feet is lying. []

Just kidding, but that was always the hardest thing at PV for perch. If they were stubborn about taking only tiny things on the bottom at 50 feet, I spent the whole day carefully feeding line down the hole.
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[k2muskie]

Lol you need a dropper like a Hali or a cast master hook removed tied to a 6-8" leader and qick clip they use for fly fishing where you put ant and you'll get to the bottom. Just an ant on a line ain't going to happen any time soon.
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[RockyRaab]

And if you're really smart, you'll leave a hook on the spoon (or heavier jig) and tie the tiny lure in above it drop-shot style.

Three reasons:

1. The baited hook on the spoon can and does catch fish.

2. A tiny lure tied above can't tangle up during the drop like it can if on a short leader below.

3. A short leader below the spoon only transmits a bite that pulls downward. You feel nothing when a fish lifts the tiny lure upwards, because that doesn't move the spoon at all.
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[Springbuck]

Done both, but I didn't like having a heavy spoon between me and the tiny offerings as a flasher, because I could tell it interfered with me detecting light bites.

I eventually did start doing the dropshot thing with either sinkers or spoons.

But of course the best days were when they were motivated enough you could just fish the little spoons with a chain/swivel, like the Hali's.
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[k2muskie]

Yep and we be two ole ladies who love to fish and we do okay teaching ourselves plus listening to others. We do okay we think...including when ice fishing the bite is very light that's why a spring bobber is the ticket for us...without one well good luck...
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[fish_fear_me2]

Sounds like an excellent outing. Glad you got into a bunch of crappie. Were there any perch swimming around too???
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[k2muskie]

One in the party did pull up a nice Perch. Chunky and I'm thinking close to 8.5 or 9". Unsure if they wrangled any others up as we were limited and packing up. It was a nice one considering the previous 2-3 years...so they be there it's cracking the code as they are a schooling finned critter.
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[fish_fear_me2]

Thank you. I may have to give Pineview a try.
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