John (04-24-2023)
My favorite lake is just 4 miles away. In 20 minutes I'm on the water. Shallow (22ft max depth), full of bass, pike and walleye. Last night the bite was on. My lures were being ripped up by the pike. Here is a video of my best pike, last night. Saw it on sonar and caught it some distance away, obvious stalked the lure.
PB Pike On A Berkley Flicker Shad - YouTube
Cardinal TT (08-25-2023), fuego (08-25-2023), GodismyJudge (08-25-2023)
Ice Fishing. Most guys wont go on the ice until it's 6" thick so they can pull all the pile of equip with an atv. Not me. I'm one of the first on ice guys. It was 2yrs ago first week of December and I told my wife I'm going over to Susan Lake, drill a hole and catch a pike. That's how it happened. Ice was 2 1/2" thick, I stepped out from the boat landing and went out and drilled a hole. I could see my minnow fluttering on the bottom. BOOM! A flash of green and white, the fight was on. I pulled up a 27" northern pike.
I posted on face book...where all those that have anxiety issues show up. The experts were chewing me out for being so foolish. One guy says he is on the sheriff's dive team for people like me. He says "I pull too many corpses off the bottom that go through ice like you were on!!!!" I replied "why did you need dive gear for 3 feet of water??". Yup some people do foolish things but if you follow simple physics and use a spud to feel your way out chances are you will survive if you go through...in three feet of water.
I'm shooting for early December just a few weeks away.
fuego (11-16-2023)