2008/09 Ice fishing Reports

[CNYFrank]

Had 2 eight year olds with me this weekend . . .Moraine as always was a hit. Nonstop dinks but they caught fish and all on their own. Conditions were sloppy and expected two wet little females but they saved their sploshing until just coming off the ice. The magic phrase was, "I have to go to the bathroom . . ." Not bad holding it for 3 hours. Hey Lee, was that the spot we talked about?

[iceman1603]

Fished Bradly this am with AW. Should have stayed in bed. Its the new Lake Moraine. all dinks. I Did manage to ice a monster small mouth. Walkin was ok

[CNY Lee]

Jay, I looked at the jigs on my lunch and NICE JOB and Thanks a lot. Tried to get on Maki last night but my Norton kept blocking it saying it was attacking my computer. I emailed him to see if I can just put in a phone or email order.

AW, I'm usually down in Madison fishing but this year I've been trying to fish different spots to learn how to break them down (like in tournament situations). The best I've done is when I go blind... LOL

[kirkville1]

Took my son Connor on his first ice fishing trip to Leb. today!He had a ball,but I think I had more fun watching

[kirkville1]

A few more

[Thunderman]

Hey thats not fair I didn't have a lx-5 when I was his age Nice pics kirk-1 Good to see you got the boy out for his first trip .

[Dark Cloud]

Sweet pictures Chris! It was the perfect day weather wise for takeing him out and you got into fish...

Lee - No problem on the jigs. Let me know if there is a specific color scheme you want. Im gonna play on the lathe and see if I can fabricate you an auger handle...

[Fullmoon]

Best pics I've seen so far !!!! You are a lucky man. Enjoy every minute, my "little boy" turned 20 today. Dang, I'm gettin' old. DC, sent you some more mail, lol. Gonna make it work. Lee - I wish you many more trips, photos and fond memories!

[augustwest]

Word...awesome pics partner

Let's get out soon...I have something of yours and will drop it off tomorrow afternoon, bro

Wlii you and Dana be there on Saturday...we are all expecting you guys!!

[Otis1]

Change of plans. I’m not going to New Orleans. My wife is flying out by herself to visit her family and friends. I’ll be home with the kids. I got Monday, Thursday, and Friday off next week if anyone would like to get out. I might have one of the little ones with me, but there pretty good fisherkids for their age. I’m looking to get out as much as possible.

[kirkville1]

Hit yellow tape with my 2 sons ,my dauughter and Doug and Lily hoping for the night bite.I caught 1 gill that was it for all of us!

[CNY Lee]

Thanks Jay.

[Dark Cloud]

No prob Lee, really glad you got into em. Makes me laugh when I think back to some rumors that were started saying I couldn't find or catch fish

That lake we fished this afternoon was a wierd one. We poked a ton of holes and caught 12-15 small/med gills, 2 big gills, a few small crappies, and 3 nice 11-12 inch crappies. The strange part was that we found fish everywhere from 10fow to 30 fow and belly or 10 ft down over 28ft. No rhyme, reason, or pattern...

KappyDick - was that you we chatted with out there today?

[CNY Tim]

Nice shots Lee and good report!

Dark Cloud - Funny stuff right there

Chris - Connor's the man... Look at the spring bobber on that St. Croix in the one pic. Kid tested tough...

[Kappydick]

No prob Lee, really glad you got into em. Makes me laugh when I think back to some rumors that were started saying I couldn't find or catch fish

That lake we fished this afternoon was a wierd one. We poked a ton of holes and caught 12-15 small/med gills, 2 big gills, a few small crappies, and 3 nice 11-12 inch crappies. The strange part was that we found fish everywhere from 10fow to 30 fow and belly or 10 ft down over 28ft. No rhyme, reason, or pattern...

KappyDick - was that you we chatted with out there today?

No, I fished it last week and did real good on big gills but no crappie. We fished it all to ourselves last season and this year it has gotten hammered. I didn't fish yesterday went to the [PoorWordUsage] Syracuse game..should of went fishing.

Kirkville, Those pictures with your boy are awesome..makes me smile everytime I scroll down past them. Nice job!!!

[Dark Cloud]

Kappy - It was strange, we walked out to a trap and Tank asked if it was KappyDick. The guy said yep then silence. I said its Tank and Dark Cloud here to bug ya, and more silence then the guy started talking about the lake and other lakes but never opened his tent. So we chatted a bit then started drillin. A little while later I told Tank that wasnt Kappy but probably some confused person with bad hearing, lol....

[Kappydick]

Kappy - It was strange, we walked out to a trap and Tank asked if it was KappyDick. The guy said yep then silence. I said its Tank and Dark Cloud here to bug ya, and more silence then the guy started talking about the lake and other lakes but never opened his tent. So we chatted a bit then started drillin. A little while later I told Tank that wasnt Kappy but probably some confused person with bad hearing, lol....

That's what Tank told me last night...Thats some funny chit....I would never be that rude and I would have been right out there to shake your hands. Wish I knew who it was, probably one of the people that fish the pits down in Hillcrest because i've heard them talking about where you guys were.

[augustwest]

What's up Kappmeister??? Give me a call sometime, so we can fish. I am planning on heading your way again to fish with DC and Tank sometime in the near future.

I fished BB today with Jake (Kirkville's Son) from 3:30 'til about .5 hours into dark. We didn't do much. Jake got a Slammer Perch and we each got a BuuTT load of Dinkers. I did manage to find the secret Callico location around dark. I lost a Freaking SLOB at the hole. I don't remember when I had a Straberry rip line off a real with some serious head shaking going on I got a few on the ice, all C&R. I didn't realize what time it was and had to get jake home before Chris and Dana had helicopters looking for us I ran into a buddy of mine while he was leaving the ice tonight and got the lowdown on the Strawberries in BB and Hatch. Word around the very tiny campfire is, the Strawberries in Hatch have to be bent in half to get them in the bucket I am meeting up with him for a night bite tomorrow and need to confirm such proposterus info If confirmed...you will not see me for a while after dark

[augustwest]

I am heading to BBrook for a good night bite around 4:30 this afternoon...anyone interested in joining? My buddy whalloped them pretty good last night. They stayed until around 10:30pm.

[Kappydick]

I am heading to BBrook for a good night bite around 4:30 this afternoon...anyone interested in joining? My buddy whalloped them pretty good last night. They stayed until around 10:30pm.

I'd be up to it tomorrow night..I have my daughter tonight or I would shoot up.

[augustwest]

Sir Timmy met me at the Copper Turret tonight to fish. We hit the Res. in time to have a great evening...needless to say, it blew monkey Ar$e. Timmy caught 2 2inch Perch and that was it.

I'm sorry Tim to make you drive all that way for nothing

I have had the most dissapointing Ice Season in my life

Oh well, I have a great woman, daughter, dogs and great friends

Spring is coming and and new G Loomis 7' ML Walleye rod coming, so a new outlook is all in perspective

[Dark Cloud]

AW - How about beating on some sunfish tomorrow afternoon? Our spot hasn't delivered a let-down this year. As long as you dont bring the curse of "thunderchum" with you, we should be good to go...

[CNY Tim]

AW - How about beating on some sunfish tomorrow afternoon? Our spot hasn't delivered a let-down this year. As long as you dont bring the curse of "thunderchum" with you, we should be good to go...

Jay - Hey leave our weatherman alone!

AW great fishing with you.... After I left BB round 1830 hours I left for Morraine figured I could get out to a decent crappies spot on the main lake but where I usually park on that end some body put up a "No Parking sign" When I swung the Silly around I noticed on the right a pull-in between a coupl mailboxes and wondered but i couldn't tell if there were drag marks guard rail slopes on the lake side. Anyhow I fished the small side and after I got off the phone with todd my screen started filling up with a bunch of these guys. I was fishing 10.5' and the fish were stacked 3-4' from the bottom, started catching small craps after small craps.

They were pretty agressive and this is the best one I caught maybe 6"

Anyway I had a good time catching and booked Morraine about 10:10 p.m. Will get em next time AW. Count on it!

[Dark Cloud]

Tank and I headed south this afternoon to a brand new lake. Small and a bit of a walk in but worth checking out. Drilled around and nothing but dink perch then I wacked these two...

A few more holes and Tank caught a nice pickerel. Then I hooked something solid and was thinking another pickerel till I saw silver and this guy filled the hole...

We caught another nice sunny and two more decent crappies and that was it...

Was very nice fishing in sweats and a hoodie

[CNY Lee]

Nice guys, makes me jealous that I couldn't get out there today.