First Time for Everything

[Mr. Pike1]

Well today was a first for me. A rain out in January. I had just got into good sunfish bite and was hit by a mild down poor. That combined with a nice little breeze finally forced me of the hard water. Thank God I had my ice cleats on as it was slick and little layer of water made it evern slicker.

[The Grebe]

Pike...Usually when we get rain in January, everything gets covered in ice...I guess we can be thankful that the temp has stayed above freezing...to this point anyways...tonight might bring a different story? If we have to have it at all, I for one will take the rain over the ice anyday!

[Dan Thiem]

We had a steady rain today too. We also had a terrific sunfish bite during the rain. Good thing I brought the portable. Pretty easy pulling too!

[hanson]

Ice Fishing in the rain is something that we shouldn't have to worry about. But for some darn reason, its becoming a more common occurrence.

I was putzing around on Medicine Lake tonight when it started to rain. Yuck! I was on such a good bite that I didn't even bother to set up my shack and just kept fishing in the rain. A couple guys about my age came over and asked me if I was "Hardcore". I kind of smiled.

They proceeded to ask if I was catching anything and I was pounding them. "You bet," I said. I pulled in a couple sunnies while they were talking to me. Apparently they weren't doing so well. They asked about crappies and I told them I'd probably landed more crappies than gills. The one guy yells back to his other buds in the shack to put a minnow on since I was getting crappies... little did they know I wasn't catching them on minnows.

Anyway, got sidetracked there.

Rain sucks!