Henry's Ice

[fast_randy]

Looks like fun, except for the drive... I got a new to me truck and man those tires on it are the slickest tires I've had since I first started driving with old bias ply tires... I'm pretty glad I didn't have that on the road this weekend... I have a habit of putting  a ding in anything new to me so I didn't want to do that again... Glad you made the trip successfully... I'll be a little jealous, but only for the fishing part... Later Jeff

Yeah, the fishing was fun.  But, it came at high cost with the drive.  And the fish seemed to bite better when the sun was out anyway.  So, schedule for a better weather weekend.  

I finally got up there today. It was slow.  I got two cuts around 3 1/2 but I hooked into 2 monsters. I'm guessing over 10 lbs. The first big one I got on a regular pole and I had it at the hole for a long time, over five minutes, but I couldn't get its head up the hole and it finally broke off at the not. Then the next one (huge, it's tail fin is at least 6 inches wide) it's three foot long. But it was on my green noodle rod. They are great for seeing light bites. But a monster like I couldn't control it with that noodel. It got over and snagged another of my poles 8 feet away. My friend Dan just barely saved it from going in the drink. His glove was soaked. And then he thought he had a different fish. Then it snagged another pole, and again Dan saved it just before the handle went under. And after another long fight it finally broke off also.