Where can a guy get spearfishing equipment?

[Cheeser]

As promised, here is an update on my trip to Fort Peck.

All I can say is WOW! Certainly not what I had pictured at all. Very remote and isolated. Very quiet - at one time, my ears were ringing from the silence.

However, I have never had more fun fishing! Well, that might be a stretch, but it was certainly worth the trip, even though we drove through 300 miles of blizzard to get there.

This first one is my first 10 lb Laker! Pretty sweet. Had her smoked - yum!

Bob scored a nice 9 lb Walleye!

Jason did the best - the pike is just shy of 19 lbs, laker is 9 1/2.

Me setting a tip-up - nice scenery. Notice the first day was cold and windy, the last two were beautiful!

Jason with some more fish on the last day!

Of course no trip would be complete without some of these!

Total tally for 4 guys was 22 pike, 5 lakers, 3 walleyes and a chinook salmon.

--Mark

[bassNspear]

Looks like you guys had a great trip out there.

[Fish Toys]

Yea MN MIKE I’ve been very busy so I don’t get on here very often. Bean harvest went good but I must be getting older being I get a little tired after 29 to 30 hrs straight . Thought we were done in the field a few weeks ago when I finished anhydrous at 1:30 AM in the rain and we got 2” of rain. A week later we were rolling again. Spent a week ditching and decided I better get some more Icesaws made and parked the tractor so I’ve been in the shop lately. Been shipping Icesaws all over the country . Still have some more ditching to do and go and level off the scraper piles. What’s this about your dad’s big deer?

A couple of maintenance tips for the Icesaw. Tighten the two bolts in the wood handle & tighten the rivet in the hinge point. Make sure your spears are sharp. Still waiting on my last order of spear heads being I’m out of them.

Oh and another thing the wife figures when I’m in the shop I should be home by 7:00 or 8:00 PM instead of working till who knows when so I can’t get as many Icesaws done per day.

Hope the garden dries a little more so I can get it in shape for next spring. Know anybody that needs squash? Have a big pile in the garage.

Be safe on the ice. You can purchase your Icesaw here at www.icesaws.com

[MN Mike]

FISH !!!!

We'll it's about time you get yourself out of that big fancy John Deere I imagine you have auto steer in that bugger, probably catching a few winks in between turns

Boy, did Dad and Dan come back with a couple dandy Mulies both will probably make Boone and Crocket, we will find out, I'll see if I can post up some pics, I'm green with envy for sure! Breaking that 30 inch barrier put you into a whole different type of animal, it's like catching a 30 inch pike, then catching a 45 inch pike, they just are not the same.

You know, with the advent of youtube and what not, it might be time to put that video up on the internet of your ice saw or maybe even make a new one, we'll have to talk about that one day.

I think everyone has squash coming out of their ears this year, can't even hardly give it away anymore BUT if you run out, come on over to the shop we got more for you.

Mike

[Agronomist_at_IA]

I checked with the DNR in Iowa and you can spearfish in iowa, but only for ruff fish.

[bassNspear]

ya, you cant spear pike or anything like that. has to be ruff fish. Still a good time, just not good eating

[Fish Toys]

No auto steer but it would be nice on a couple of fields! One field is over two miles long and the other is about mile. Sure get a lot done on them in a hurry. Dang the way the weather has been I bet the big eyes are hitting on union.

Great pictures of the trip to fort peck. Talked to mark at D&G Sports in Glasgow <19 miles from Ft Peck> last week and he said they haven’t had weather like their having since 1963. The ice will come and you have to be patient to make sure it’s safe. I’m sure I won’t have time again to get out seeing what I’m missing. Sure ruins my nick name "FISH" by not doing the fishing like I used to.

Heck of a good forum they started here.

Some rough fish are excellent smoked or pickled