Fishing thread.

Yes I am all set up but screw using an ice saw, put vegetable oil in the saw and flip the chain on the saw backwards, much easier.

 

You carry all of that out in the trunk of your oldsmobile?

I will have to watch some videos on spearing, I know nothing about it.

 

Not a problem at all. the portable is on a sled that gets pulled by a 4 wheeler. Roads on the lake are plowed now too.

 

Nice! I don’t get to live that fun lake life!

 

Everybody fishes, everyone has fun except me, I am just the groundskeeper that pays for it all.

 

And you love it! Good for you.

 

A little hardwater fun!

 

took a drive around checking the steelhead streams ... gonna be a while till these streams open up, every thing is froze over ... slight warm up coming starting Sat. but I doubt it will melt the streams open.... usually come Feb. they open back up ... Feb/March are good times to be after winter Steelhead .. Spawn sacs, cut shrimp (fresh and cooked red) and spinners.. 7 ft 8-14 test Stream Rod/2500 series Shimano reel and good 'ol Trilene clear 8lb test/warm clothes and neoprene waders .....

 

The Mississippi is froze over up by me, even parts south of the nuke plant are froze over. Going to take the boys out to see if we can catch a few fish this weekend.

 

What will you fish for and with what?

 

Just panfish, pink and white jig with a wax worm.

 

SIL is coming by tomorrow evening to sit on the pond with me. We're going to try to get enough for a fish fry.

 

Same here. The Clam maggot drop jig has been good to us.

 

Good luck, stay safe!

 

Neighbor 2 doors down pulled his wheelhouse out, the Friday night fishing is back on. Will make it so much easier to take the grandsons out, keep them entertained. Neighbor is a great guy he gave me a key to the house, I leave my camera and humminbird for him to use. I learned the hard way to not let others use mine inline reels so I take those home with me.

 

Love it, see you scaled the fish, do you fillet and leave the skin on or lop heads and gut?

 

Didn’t scale them, maybe you’re seeing the snow from storing them in a bucket.

I finally broke and used an electric knife. Have always used a rapala fillet knife but everyone says electric is the way to go. So I tried it and then ordered an electric fillet knife. Definitely quicker and I didn’t lose any meat. Cut through the ribs, flip, and fillet off the skin.

 

I've been waiting for a warm up, and it's coming this next week. Come Wednesday morning I should be chasing winter smallmouth on Dale Hollow with my brother and our buddy that guides on the lake.

 

We fished for 2 hours and had 23 that we kept.

 

Tough bite for us today. Fished from 2 to 7 and only kept 7 fish. Lots of dinks.