Arrived at FL about 10pm Friday night and my buddy and I began the long treck pulling my sled across the heavy wet snow. We fished on the North end over 100 ft of water.
We fished all night and left around noon Saturday. We iced 60+ fish between the two of us including rainbows, Splake and young Lakers. We lost a few real nice lake trout at the hole. Rainbows were caught on small jig heads tipped with mealworms and Splake and Lakers were caught on 3" Gulp minnows on jig head with a treble dropper.
Good thing fish were biting otherwise it would have been a miserable trip due to 3" of water we were sitting in. Lesson learned: When ice is thin and snow is heavy and wet....... fish in shallow water!
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It was close to 6 inches of water by Sunday! Very miserable when combined with cold temps, falling snow, terrible wind and non-water proof boots.[frown]
Sounds like you had a good time though.
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Fun for sure, but I forgot to grease up my leather boots so my feet were soaked as well. How did you do?
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I was down there Sunday too. Fished 'Joe Bush'? Perch fishing was as fast as I have ever seen it. Between 2 of us we caught 110 in 75 minutes. The wind only collapsed one side of our tent a couple times too. We didn't stake the sides down. Fished 20 FOW. Thank you to the stranger who offered his power auger services, that was awesome. And to the strangers whose 6 man tent blew off the lake, I hope you got it back ok.
Good times and tight lines!
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Me and 5 buds are heading down to Fish Lake friday and are going to fish thru to monday. First time on Fish Lake. We were planning on bringing wheelers to move around on the ice with----any problems getting them around down there? Slush, snow?
We would like to target some lakers because we've never caught any but really dont know much about the lure selection or area to start looking. Water depth? time of day? Can anyone PM me and give me a little info to get us started? Id be very appreciative! We pretty much have every lure ever made between the 6 of us---ha. Thanks---
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Hey TDT I actually measured it and it was 2-4. If it was 6" of water they would be flooding my boots and I would be complaining a little. Next time buy water proof so your not crying like a little kid when I'm ice fishing with you [laugh].
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[quote Flyfishinglover]Hey TDT I actually measured it and it was 2-4. If it was 6" of water they would be flooding my boots and I would be complaining a little. Next time buy water proof so your not crying like a little kid when I'm ice fishing with you [laugh].[/quote]
Coming from the guy on his last post which you said "MPG" instead of "MPH"?
Besides you mesured the water, not the entire colum of slush. You also failed to realize that your heater melted the slush down too.
I measured my boots and they are 5.5 inches high at the heal. The slush was at least 6 inches.
Only an idot would spend over $170 on boots you might wear once or twice a year!
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I have worn them about 15-20 fishing trips as well use them at work plus I live in the higher elevation comparing to you village boy so I actually have to snow plow in 6"-2' of snow so they get use a lot in the past month.
It didn't melt that much surprisingly.
Only idiots buy good boot for soothing trips for $170 not cheap $50 boots for ice fishing.Keep in mind I actually got $40 discount from cabelas when I got them so they cost only $120. Better having warm boot then cold frozen toes with a higher chance of frost bite [angelic].
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