02-07-2007, 04:34 AM
I decided to make the trek to the Bear this morning solo as no one else wanted to join me.[
] I started on the sw end in about 76' of water. It was a cold morning with alot of fog and the ice was groaning loudly.
I started with some tubes that BLM gave me tipped with cisco. After 3 lookers i finally had a hit and i stuck it to him hard. I had "the mack" hooked and was bringing line in when he came unbuttoned about 15 seconds into the fight.[mad] I had anther hit shortly after that i missed. About 30 minutes later i caught a nice 18" cutt and finally got the skunk off. Over the next 3 hours i had 4 nore hits and no hook-ups. I decided to try the rockpile for some whitefish. I had a heck of a time trying to hook them. I finally got a good hit and it was a 17" cutt. Another 30 minutes of very light hits and i got a small cutt about 14" and skinny. Shortly after i saw a fish shoot up off the bottom on the vexilar and it slammed my pole! I set the hook into what i thought was a cutt or a whitie and about fell over when i pulled up a 14" 2 1/2# perch!! I could not believe my eyes! I guess i made some noise because everyone came to see what i caught. It must have been spectacular because everyone elses jaws dropped to the ice. After that i got a call from Cadresults saying he was coming over to fish by the pumphouse. I packed up and met him over there. We fished till dark with only some cutts suspended in 40' of water. Ice was anywhere from 6" to 12 or 13". A beautiful day and not bad catching.
BTW: I returned all of the cutts except one and kept the perch for a trip to the taxi.[
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One more thing, I stopped to look at some swans and almost the entire flock had neck bands. Eat your hearts out swan hunters![sly]
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] I started on the sw end in about 76' of water. It was a cold morning with alot of fog and the ice was groaning loudly. I started with some tubes that BLM gave me tipped with cisco. After 3 lookers i finally had a hit and i stuck it to him hard. I had "the mack" hooked and was bringing line in when he came unbuttoned about 15 seconds into the fight.[mad] I had anther hit shortly after that i missed. About 30 minutes later i caught a nice 18" cutt and finally got the skunk off. Over the next 3 hours i had 4 nore hits and no hook-ups. I decided to try the rockpile for some whitefish. I had a heck of a time trying to hook them. I finally got a good hit and it was a 17" cutt. Another 30 minutes of very light hits and i got a small cutt about 14" and skinny. Shortly after i saw a fish shoot up off the bottom on the vexilar and it slammed my pole! I set the hook into what i thought was a cutt or a whitie and about fell over when i pulled up a 14" 2 1/2# perch!! I could not believe my eyes! I guess i made some noise because everyone came to see what i caught. It must have been spectacular because everyone elses jaws dropped to the ice. After that i got a call from Cadresults saying he was coming over to fish by the pumphouse. I packed up and met him over there. We fished till dark with only some cutts suspended in 40' of water. Ice was anywhere from 6" to 12 or 13". A beautiful day and not bad catching.
BTW: I returned all of the cutts except one and kept the perch for a trip to the taxi.[
] One more thing, I stopped to look at some swans and almost the entire flock had neck bands. Eat your hearts out swan hunters![sly]
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