Anyone else looking forward to first ice crappies?

[barrelslime]

Barrelslime.....pm sent.

[canadianwiggler]

Here's a video from yesterday with a bit of the action from my first trip on the ice this year.

[MaineCrappieMan]

nice

[barrelslime]

nice indeed

[river scum]

nice lil vid few days more here and ice will be good to go.

[P-row]

Wiggler....is that a Swedish pimple you're using? Them are some slabs there! What a way to start the season!

[CTom]

I am really looking forward to open water and hope its here as early as this cold was.

[canadianwiggler]

P-row, I was using these jigs with these bodies. The jigheads were in white and the bodies were in silver. Last year, I found the Crappie in that lake would go nuts for emerald shiners so this summer I tried to find artificial baits that looked as similar to that as I could find. This will be my third ice fishing season where I've fished for Crappie so I'd say I'm still learning the intricacies. If anyone has any pointers for me, I'd love to hear them.

Wiggler....is that a Swedish pimple you're using? Them are some slabs there! What a way to start the season!

[Buffy the panfish slayer]

Nice! Wish we got good ice this early. It's been in single digits the last couple of nights here, but they're saying we'll have mid-thirties and rain next week. Phoo. Maybe January.

[canadianwiggler]

We've got plenty of cold weather here. It's going to be -24C (-11F) here overnight; -34C (-30F) with the windchill. It's definitely been an early winter here.