Best Ice Trip I've ever experienced.

[eyedr]

So we just got back from a trip and man was it a blast. I will post a few pics when I get a chance but it was by far the best ice fishing trip i have ever been on. We started the trip and got out to our spot for the thursday evening bite. We slept out in the ice castle and fishing was not the greatest thursday night and friday morning. We had a few fish but not what we had come for. Our plan was to change lakes and see if we could get into some perch and walleyes. The morning and early afternoon were very poor and we were really starting to lose hope. Then we moved a couple hundred yards and caught a couple big perch and a walleye so we decided to move the house there because it was the only spot we had even marked fish. The fishing exploded for us from there. Between friday night, sat morning and sat afternoon we caught 115 walleyes, most of which were right at 14 inches, we measured the vast majority of them because of the slot. We did catch 6 eyes over 20 inches the biggest being 24 and 4 fish between 15.5-19.5 inches. We also caught 30 perch and the biggest was 14.25 inches, the smallest was 10 inches. If that wasnt enough we had fun catching pike as well, we ended up with 12 pike up to 8 lbs. This was all out of the house in a span of about 30 hours. The best part was I got to experience it with my family. MY dad and a few other family members and I were all able to get in on it. Great time. Once I get my pics on my computer I will share a couple. Im not a big fan of posting too much identifying info on here so I wont be posting pics of the eyes because we didnt keep many of them and the only pics I have are of us holding them in the fish house. Its going to be a long time before we experience a trip like this one.

[Coldwater Crappie Guy]

What lake were you on?

Sounds like a great trip!

[McGurk]

It really is fun when it "clicks". Weekends like that give us a lot more drive to keep going.

[Crow Hunter]

You must have been in a state other than Minnesota, since the walleye and northern seasons here are closed?

[eyedr]

The best part of the whole thing was that there wasnt a house with in a half mile of us. We just stumbled upon it by chance and it worked.

[fiskyknut]

Hmmm.. Bitter lake maybe ??

[eyedr]

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[eyedr]

We were going to try bitter but we heard the accesses were deteriorating fast so we went another direction as not to damage the ice castle on its maiden voyage.

[harvey lee]

You must have been in a state other than Minnesota, since the walleye and northern seasons here are closed?

Lake of the Woods and that area does not close for eyes and pike till I believe April 15th. So, yes, it could have been Mn.

[Crow Hunter]

His post talked of measuring 14 inch walleyes due to slot concerns, so that ruled out lake of the woods, since they just have to be under 19.5" there. I was not accusing him of anything, just curious as to where he was fishing.

[walleyeking19]

I was gonna guess Devils Lake, until you said you were thinking about switching lakes. So maybe South Dakota?

[TrapMan13]

14" eye kinda rules out bitter to doesn't it?

[eyewall]

Bitter has a 15 inch minimum on walleyes.

[CANOPY SAM]

Something tells me he is not going to divulge the lakes name. And good on him for keeping it a secret! It's enough to know you had a terrific trip with family!

Boy that IS a Jumbo Perch!

[POPS57]

It is more then likely Devils lake. Just came back from there. It has flooded so much that all the lakes are connected. Seasons never close and man did we catch fish.

[pikerliker]

Since he mentioned Bitter I would guess Dakota's.