Some rambling thoughts on ice fishing

[SkunkedAgain]

Keep posting Bob I don't ice fish so have to get all my fun from your post.

Stay tuned Robert; leaning heavily towards Rockport on Tuesday.  

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Well it’s true you can still fish ice, but do you want this:

ABSOLUTELY want that.  I'm after food, Dude.     I'll leave the tugs to you Jeff.  Tight lines and all that.

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Had a similar experience yesterday.  NO ONE on Pineview at 4pm.  Only saw 1 other party allafternoon/evening...and the fishing was great!  7-8" of cloudy ice and 6-7" of clear ice below.  Edges were decent and could hop across to solid ice.  I'll be back there tomorrow...

I'm hoping to get back up there on Thursday.  I'll run up and check the edges at the Port Ramp Wednesday afternoon.  If I can't get the dog on there, it will be back up to Mantua.

If the wife would eat fish I may be doing the same thing, but since I'm the only fish eater in the house, I'm okay with catching and releasing...

Hey ran by Cutler all 3 north ramps from Benson, Ballard Bridge to Cache Junction are open water and boats launching at all of them today... 

Ran by Newton and at the ramp it has several feet of edge gap before you get on the ice, but I seen a group with snowmobiles on the ice up north, so I assume there is an area somewhere that you can get on without getting your feet wet or else they jumped the gap, but they had big tents and all so I doubt they jumped the gap with them...  Anyway if you liked that blue perch, that was the second one I've gotten this winter out of Newton... Doubt I caught the same one twice, but it could happen since I send them back... anyway, looks like you can still fish Newton, but I'd take a plank to get on the ice... How big were your fish at Mantua?  Going to say Newton is mostly 7"ers, so if they are bigger for you I'd stick with Mantua... If not there were a lot of fish in Newton and you can catch them about anywhere I drilled a hole, they just aren't very big... but there were a lot of them and most trips I could break 20 easy enough... Except for two days one with Alan and one with Shawn, when I was lucky to catch anything... However, both of them did really well on those trips... (Makes me wonder why the fish always like my company better than me????) If you're looking to get the dog on the ice at Newton give me a call and I think I know where they got on the ice so I can cut your search time down..   Good luck... Jeff