Ice Challenge 24/25 SkunkedAgain

[SkunkedAgain]

Thanks Ron and great timing. 
12/14/24
Bluegill. 6.0
Crappie. 13.5
Bear River

[wiperhunter2]

Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

[SkunkedAgain]

Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

Thanks Curt, On the ice contest I've gotten 13"ers just about every year, but it usually takes me fishing all winter to find one... One year I got a 15"er, 14 and 13 the same trip... but that was after 20 trips that winter... This was unusual to find the big one early, it's usually just before the ice clears for the year... but I think it's warmed enough that I'm done on this skiff of ice for awhile anyway.. I hope this isn't the melt for this winter... but at 2.5", it doesn't take much deteriorating to end the fishing... Maybe this will get me to get my boat cleaned out and ready to fish Willard before it freezes... That would be fun, and I should hit Bear Lake too, but too many places to go and not enough time to get to all of them... Still doing a lot of putting up shelves, cabinets and furniture, not to mention cleaning and organizing after all those construction months..  Hope that I'll get a chance to fish next weekend, but being right before Christmas and my lack of doing anything shopping wise yet, I'll probably need to do a little shopping for my wife... Thanks for noticing the fish... later Jeff

[wiperhunter2]

Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

Thanks Curt, On the ice contest I've gotten 13"ers just about every year, but it usually takes me fishing all winter to find one... One year I got a 15"er, 14 and 13 the same trip... but that was after 20 trips that winter... This was unusual to find the big one early, it's usually just before the ice clears for the year... but I think it's warmed enough that I'm done on this skiff of ice for awhile anyway.. I hope this isn't the melt for this winter... but at 2.5", it doesn't take much deteriorating to end the fishing... Maybe this will get me to get my boat cleaned out and ready to fish Willard before it freezes... That would be fun, and I should hit Bear Lake too, but too many places to go and not enough time to get to all of them... Still doing a lot of putting up shelves, cabinets and furniture, not to mention cleaning and organizing after all those construction months..  Hope that I'll get a chance to fish next weekend, but being right before Christmas and my lack of doing anything shopping wise yet, I'll probably need to do a little shopping for my wife... Thanks for noticing the fish... later Jeff

Wow I haven't heard of anyone catching crappie that big in a very long time, but guess where we have caught them that big? It was back in the days of Mike4cobra, when he use to be on the site, before he got married.

[hookngrinin]

Thanks Ron and great timing. 
12/14/24
Bluegill. 6.0
Crappie. 13.5
Bear River

Great start! That crappie is going to be tough to beat for the panfish category. 

Bluegill - 6
Crappie - 13.5

[SkunkedAgain]

Thanks Ron, I was pretty excited to see that fish come through the hole... Curt, is that what happened to Mike... I wondered where he had gone... Thanks guys... Jeff

[SkunkedAgain]

12-21-24
Bear River
Gill. 7.0”

[SkunkedAgain]

Sorry about no label, the ice was so thin and scary I left my rod box in the car. Didn’t have the label when the fish was on. Jeff

[EyLayo]

Sheesh, that's a purty good crappie to start with. Going to be chasing that one for most of the contest. Congrats

[SkunkedAgain]

Thanks Shawn, the way the ice is so far this year, contest might be over soon so might have a chance, but with the big perch in Willard, it will be beat... if we get ice... I'm hoping for ice so it can get beat... Wish it would at least get 5 degrees colder, then I think the ice will start to build a little, right now I think it's going down hill... Hope we don't have a repeat of last year, we need a good ice season this year... Hoping to be able to join you on a pond thick enough to hold two of us... If not maybe we'll have to take the boat to Willard.. Later Jeff