A little piece of adice when drilling holes.

[RumRiverRat]

Make sure you are in deep enough water so you do not auger into the bottom.

I managed to do this Saturday on Pelican Lake.

[rusty rapala]

I came close to doing the same thing on the west side of Pelican last year as I found myself in three feet of water. Ended up fishing in eight feet and did well with an evening bite.

[JBMasterAngler]

I did that on grindstone lake...one of the deepest lakes in the state!!!

[CarpKing921]

been there done that no good on the blades thats for sure.

[croixflats]

Good advise. With these new fangeled drills now a days we dont want to spring a leak in the lake.

[Lve2fsh]

Last weekend I was trying to get a hole drilled in 2 or 3 feet of water. I looked like a golfer looking over his putt, down on my knees trying to figure out where the bank started. Managed to get a hole in 5 foot but didn't dare to go any farther. The rainbows at this lake wear the top fins off on the bottom of the ice chasing the bait in the shallow water. If you let things settle down and then be very quite at the hole you can catch some very nice 5# or better trout in that shallow hole.

Also my Wilcraft had lots of people asking what the heck is that thing. Worked pretty good but a little to much slush and snow to get around everywhere I wanted to go. In it's defense the ATVs weren't doing very well either except for the ones with tracks.

[leech~~]

Last weekend I was trying to get a hole drilled in 2 or 3 feet of water. I looked like a golfer looking over his putt, down on my knees trying to figure out where the bank started. Managed to get a hole in 5 foot but didn't dare to go any farther. The rainbows at this lake wear the top fins off on the bottom of the ice chasing the bait in the shallow water. If you let things settle down and then be very quite at the hole you can catch some very nice 5# or better trout in that shallow hole.

Also my Wilcraft had lots of people asking what the heck is that thing. Worked pretty good but a little to much slush and snow to get around everywhere I wanted to go. In it's defense the ATVs weren't doing very well either except for the ones with tracks.

Not to take the post off track. But Lve2fsh. Have you ever tried driving your Wilcraft backwards when there is a lot of slush or deeper snow? I've wondered if maybe pulling through some times would be better then pushing on those?

[Lve2fsh]

It's actually a pretty good sled going forward but most of the time we could back out, turn and proceed. The funny part was getting off the trail the snow mobiles made, getting stuck, then we would raise the wheels and just push it back onto the trail and off we went. Nobody could figure out why we were in the shallow water until they drove over to look at the Wilcraft and saw the trout we had on the ice.

Had an old auger that looks like an original Eskimo that I borrowed with a short shaft. If the ice would have been 2 inches thicker we wouldn't have been fishing. I sharpened the blades myself, which worked perfect and I sure didn't want to hit the dirt when I was drilling.

[leech~~]

It's actually a pretty good sled going forward but most of the time we could back out, turn and proceed. The funny part was getting off the trail the snow mobiles made, getting stuck, then we would raise the wheels and just push it back onto the trail and off we went. Nobody could figure out why we were in the shallow water until they drove over to look at the Wilcraft and saw the trout we had on the ice.

Had an old auger that looks like an original Eskimo that I borrowed with a short shaft. If the ice would have been 2 inches thicker we wouldn't have been fishing. I sharpened the blades myself, which worked perfect and I sure didn't want to hit the dirt when I was drilling.

Are you Trout fishing out there in Nevada?

[Lve2fsh]

The lake we were at is wildhorse reservoir. Located north of Elko Nevada close to the Idaho border. It has rainbow trout, German brown trout, bowcutt trout, tiger trout, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish, wipers and yellow perch.

The perch were taking over and they are all small so they put the wipers in to cut down on the perch. You catch less perch now but they are bigger.

Must of the fishing out here on the ice is for trout but most places they aren't very big.

[dougger222]

I've learned when you get back from the North Pole on a fishing trip it's very wise to take the 3 24in extensions off before going out localy to ice fish.

Honestly, come close a few times but never got black up the hole.