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A Weekend on the Ice!

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By cRaPpiEMaN8265
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well i finally got out this weekend and hit my lake cabin. The lake is about 300 acres and only 6 feet deep max... We stopped at the local bait shop on the way up for an ice report and he said there was 5 inches on most small lakes... Also Yellow Lake (Burnett County WI) was already getting some ice fisherman which suprised me since the lake is about 2000 acres and has a river going in and out each end with a max depth of 30ft. Anyway we got out to the cabin and me and my buddy walked out a little ways and hand augered a hole to find 5 1/2" clear solid inches of ice! When we got there it was dark so we could not fish efficiantly due to a poor night bite on this lake. We slept well that night hittin the sack at around 10 and going out at the crack of dawn! We did not know we had a poor day of fishing ahead... We set up the shacks put out our tip-ups and started fishin. Thats when the wind decided to kick into action and man was it brutal! Needless to say we had a hard time keeping the shacks over the holes and there was many "slips" on the ice! Then it just got worse as the snow started coming down... it made it nearly impossible to move the shacks by hand and was making huge banks. We ended up with a few sightings of bass and sunfish and nothing on the tip-ups... As you may imagine it is tough on a guy to not catch any fish all day... The next morning we got up bright and early since we had to leave early due to the snowstorm and getting a few driveways blown out and such. We decifered we would have to take a snowmobile out to rescue the shacks and get them back to the cabin since they were so far away... We got out there fished for 10 minutes and caught one fish and that was all she wrote! Bad weekend on the ice but still fun to be out! I snapped a few pictures on my cell phone even there was only 1 with a fish lol. Here they are....

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The scout fish house....

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The clam junior.

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A look down at the hole we fished.

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The lone fish of the weekend!

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On the way back in.. Thats the snowmobile way in the distance pullin the shack in.

Maybe better luck next time!

Good Luck

Ryan

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