"We Live Outdoors" heads to LOW

[hanson]

They had to do it.

This morning's episode of "We Live Outdoors" found themselves on the frozen surface of LOW in the NW angle and northern reefs of Big Traverse Bay.

Now I ask myself, "Why would they have to go and air an ice fishing show in the middle of summer?" I think I know why and it is just to get me a little agitated. Afterall, hardwater is my favorite time to be on the lake.

Oh yeah... They iced a 30" plus walleye that weighed a tad over 11 pounds!! What a fish!!

I can't wait! First trip of the winter will probably be up to LOW Pine Island area on Adrian's Rd. I love early ice up there!

[Gissert]

Arrrghhhh! I'll have to tray and catch the rerun.

It's bad enough that they have to air an ice fishing show in the summer, then they do it on my favorite part of LOW.

[icepike]

they did something here in connecticut as well.but it had to do with al linder showing new techniques on larger jigs and trying to understand the feeding bite to the time of day.gave me a big itch to go..then i realized it was 95 degrees with 100 percent humidity..no time soom enough..joe-

[rosspj59]

I thought that show was interesting as I have not been to LOTW yet and did not know what/where the northwest angle was. It was cool how the talked about living up there in the winter and talked to some of the locals. Looks like it would be a fun trip, running and gunning rather than going to a fish house and sitting around like a lot of people do up there. Most fishing shows have the guys/gals sitting in a heated fish house not using portables like I prefer to do.

[rbach]

Gissert, I was able to watch an archive of the video on the internet. If you go to Flag Island Resort's HSOforum there is a link to the show. Nicely done show.

[hanson]

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Looks like it would be a fun trip, running and gunning rather than going to a fish house and sitting around like a lot of people do up there. Most fishing shows have the guys/gals sitting in a heated fish house not using portables like I prefer to do.

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Yep. You are right. LOW is great because there is such a variety of structure. Alot of it is not easily reachable unless you travel by snowmobile. The more popular areas of LOW (Zipple Bay & Adrian's Rd) are big flats with a spread out city of houses. It is pretty easy to sit and play the waiting game when fishing these areas. I still prefer to move around with my portable. If nothing happens in one spot in a half hour or so, I'll just move a little ways and try again.

If you do go by snowmobile, you can get out to the numerous reefs on the northern side where being active can definitely pay off. Its a long snowmobile ride to some of them but at least there is structure to concentrate fish.

Babbler's Rd off of Rocky Point also will get you to some nice reefs (12 mile, 16 mile, Gull Rock, Twin Islands). All of these areas have fantastic fishing at times. The sit & wait approach has worked well even on these spots.

The one thing to remember is LOW is a VERY LARGE lake. You have to make sure all of your equipment is in order and you know how to run your GPS when you get out into the lake. You don't have to get very far off the south shore for all the people and houses to disappear and all you can see is snow in every direction.

Catching fish on LOW has never been a problem for me. The problem is locating the nicer fish worth bragging about.

[Gissert]

Good points about the lake size and safety, Mr. Hanson. That lake is nothing to screw with if the winds come up.

I'll never forget the first look I had as we came out of Moose Bay towards Oak. Holy shcnikes,that lake is huge.

I prefer to work the lake from the Angle side when playing with the northern reefs. One nice thing about the Angle/Islands area is that part of the lake is laced with an excellent stick trail network, which can help back up your GPS. Now that the one foot contour map is out, there is a lot of groovy looking spots on Starren shoal coming off the south side of Garden Island. We worked it a little bit last winter, and that map was spot on.

Next year on the agenda are the reefs around Knight and Bridges.