CARF Outdoors: north

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

WALLY WALLY...WHERE YA AT

This was my first fishing outing of the new year, and we were on the hard water in search of anything...but mostly walleyes and crappie.

Lightfield clearing some snow for the hub.

We pulled up to the lake we were going to fish, and there were quite a few vehicles and ice shelters already out. It was a good sign to my homie, but to me, it just added to the fear of being on the ice.

Poppin' holes.

A gas powered auger is a luxury...need to get one for myself.

After drilling some holes, setting up the hub, we were inside sitting pretty. I have never had such luxuries in the few times I have been out ice fishing. A gas auger, 4 person hub, propane heater, and camping chairs...I felt like I was in the Presidential Suite. I could get used to this...

The Presidential Suite.

We each had 2 rods rigged up. One setup to dead stick a minnow, and the other we were jigging with. The fishing was really slow. We were fishing in about 26 feet of water near some drop offs, with hopes there were be fish hanging around the edges. We also chose our spot, because, there were a bunch of other ice shelters around. :)

Working it.

I could get used to this.

Waiting for some action on the flasher.

Late in the afternoon, just as I was about to go out to the truck for something, I had glanced down at my flasher, there were some extra lights. Finally some action! I slowly jigged my lure and then my rod bent. I set the hook and began to quickly reel, but the fish came undone after 2 seconds. Bummer! It felt like a good one, too.

Shortly after my failed attempt to bring a fish in, my buddy Lightfield marked a few more fish and he was then hooked up. This fish put a solid bend in his rod.

Lightfield hooked up on his custom FSA Custom Rods ice rod.

Lightfield found Wally. It was the only fish that we caught, and it was a good one. Would have been nice to hook up with a few more, but I was just happy to be out fishing. Looking forward to getting back out on the hard water. Just need to get some ice fishing gear of my own.