Brushy Creek 1/17/05

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

Went out and ice fished Brushy Creek for the first time and man was it a blast. The fishing wasn't fast, I caught about 20 blugills kept 8, caught 2 crappies one was huge as it fell off at the hole and the other that I kept was 10 inches, and kept one perch that was 11 1/2 inches long!! I had an Aqua view down and seen lots of fish, perch, bluegill, largemouth bass, crappies and even a big MUSKIE!!!!

Here is an interesting story about the muskie. I was in about 20 feet of water about 100 yards south of the north boatramp and was fishing 3 feet of the bottom. I had a blugill on and he got wraped around a tree branch and got snagged up, I loosened my line to see if he would swim his way out, which he didn't and I hooked the branch. I raised the camera up to see if I could see my hook when I thought I hit a branch as there was something right in front of the camera the I could see the throat opening and gills of the inside of a fish!!!!!!! I jerked the camera and the camera finally stood still and after turning it there was the MUSKIE!!!! HE BIT AND TRIED TO SWALLOW THE CAMERA!!!!! I pulled the camera up since I didn't want him to bite it off and yelled at my dad and his friend to come and take a look. I lowered it back down and it was still there. It swam close to the camera again and finally swam away after 5 minutes. IT WAS HUGE!!! This story is no joke I just wished there was a VCR attached to the aquaview so I could have recorded it.

I can't wait to go back!!!!!

[smoker craft]

COOL I would love to hook in to one of those hogs that would be great. That is the first sighting I have heard of this season. Good luck in future trips...

[delmuts]

hey wisker ? what is the tensile strength of the coax the camera is mounted on ? del

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

Don't know and didn't want to find out since it wasn't my camera.

Pretty wierd camera shot of the opening to go to the esophogus (sp) and see the gills from the inside!!

[delmuts]

that would have make an awesome picture !