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Winter Spearing?

bassNspear

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got my new 7x 9 spear house out this year, off the ice today! It is the most comfortable, enjoyable house I have used for spearing and taking guests out.

I watched a lot of fish, including some large pike, walleye, pannies, bass rough fish and a couple muskrats. One particular muskrat came up in the hole twice and I tapped him with my boot, down he went. I was jigging a small rooster tail spinner lure and that rat came at it wide open, grabbed it and before I know what was up he was hooked in the cheek. Now what the heck do you do with a muskrat on a line? I have a trapping license, so I pulled it up, grabbed a sweedish style jigging stick, whacked it and sold it with the rest of the rats I caught. Not sure if that's proper etiquite, but thats the way it went down. I've been spearing for over 25 years, and never seen a rat go after any thing I had on, and the friend with me has been spearing for closer to fifty years and never saw anything like that either. You should hear him tell the story!

I ended my season with a total take of 9 pike. Smallest being around 24 inches and largest being around 27 inches. Had many opportunities to take larger, but no opportunities for a 40 plus. We have a one fish over 26 limit for the year that we use as a basis of raising trophy pike. We take smaller pike for an occasional meal, It is my wife's favorite fish, mine being sunfish.

Another acquaintance of mine spears locally and does not enter into our arrangement to take only one over 26, and seems to take every pike he sees. He did take 2 this year over 40 inches and both are currently at the taxidermist, along with his otter, deer, elk, think thats it? Seems that he goes for days without seeing anything and then gets a big one, Right place, right time?

Looking forward to a continued tradition of spearing, making decoys, building spears, and building friendships through the outdoors that I enjoy so much! Gotta reflect on how lucky I am to live where I do and have the opportunity to be free to travel, the resources to get me out, and background of friends and family that contributed to my experiences! Hope you all find the same, Brent

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I had a very nice season. I got out 25 times and saw an average of 2.2 pike per outing. The most fish I saw in a day was 7 and this occured 3 times. There were 4 days that no pike came into my hole. These days occured during the later part of the season. There were a lot of sightings of other fish including walleye, bass, panfish, bullheads and carp. The only muskrat I saw was pulling weeds out of an opening and piling them on top of the ice near one of my spots.

Among the best aspects of the season for me: spearing 7 new lakes, finding several new spots and patterns on my favorite lakes, getting out with family, introducing some youngsters to the sport (now they are talking about it all the time), and meeting several new friends.

Now that the season is over there will be sight fishing out of a spearhole for sunfish and then driving out to a few decoy shows.

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when we are talking about spearing, there is alot of differences that you have to take into effect. What the weather is like, what the time of day it is, what is the water like.

All this stuff leads up to success on the water. There is alot of times that I have been out and seen over 30 fish, but there is days where i go out and only see one fish. Fast of the matter is, you have to find structure that you feel the pike are going to be in. There is alot to take in, when it comes to the right place to be spearing.

I myself, love to get on a break line, where i know that on one side of me, there is 6 feet, and on the other side of me, it will drop to anywheres from 20-30 FOW.

Its all going to depend on were you are, and what difference is going to be.

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just an awsome season well at least the first part my lake clouded up and spearing was almost impossible but I managed to spear my first first 40 incher and it is already at the taxiedermists and Ive already made the room on the wall for it. I had alot of fun and thanks for all the info on this wonderful sport this sight is the greatest again thanks to all.

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