Two days of ice fishing

I have been dock fishing the last few weeks at Pomona and fishing through the ice in the slips, it's been fun but the bite has slowed down alot in the last week so I was glad to have some safe ice on the lakes to try. HD was first on the list last Wed. for Lee, Jeff and I and we went to Maryville to fish a brushpile west of the ramp ( info. from Doug Boyt that a friend of his had been catching keepers there) only to find 3 other guys already there so we went out towards the main body and found a few small crappies but decided to go up above the little bull bridge. No one else had been there so we had our pick of places to try based on previous years hot spots......and we did catch a fair number of fish but mostly small ones. Now Jeff had 4 keepers laying on the ice and he left them to go up the channel to try more trees and as he headed back he noticed a blue heron standing where he'd left the fish and as he got closer the bird squawked at him and took off.......and all 4 crappies were gone :Rofl....you gotta have a sense of humor ....Jeff was given the bird....what a way to end the day! Thursday Jeff and I tried Louisburg-Middlecreek and it had already been fished with evidence of a number of froze over holes and over 30 small crappie just thrown out on the ice:yikes:yikes what a waste...don't know what the dufusses were thinking that did this. Anyway we drilled holes and started catching fish right away and 3 were keepers with one almost 14in.....gonna be a great day........well the little fish were plentiful for awhile that is and then a long lull with lots of lure changing, adding nibbles and wax worms and nothing seemed to help. We stayed long enough for some other friends to show up and we shared our fish catching info. and they gave us some beer...a fair trade I must say. Most of our fish were caught on hair jigs and small spoons, using ice rods with spring bobbers. Lookin like ice fishing is over for awhile so I'm grateful for the 2 days on hard water :highfiveAttachment 147723Attachment 147725 Sorry for the double pic.....I guess you can't have too many pics. of cold ones!

yes, it can be hard work that is for sure. Usually involves a lot of walking...not a bad thing. Don't think I could keep up with the pace that we did 15 to 20 years ago.

But ice fishing in itself is a unique way of catching fish!

That's the perfect fish fry!! BBUUURRRPPPPP!!!!!

Glad you found some of those tasty critters, you can have the ice fishing, I do not walk on water.

old doug better get that middle-creek fish on the board prolly lake record??? didn't know young doug was still around??

Yeah Springhill YD (young Doug) is still around but very busy making millions of dollars :yikes....couldn't entice him to come out on the ice...he's a wussy!

was thinin bout him last week I was eatin cheesy crackers and spam remember him fishin with crappie chatt several years ago on the glen pulled up to see if they was catchin his hands were shakin he said chatt was tryin to starve him gave him a pack of crackers you would have thought someone had given him a ribeye