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I fish for pan fish with a couple tipups out for predator fish. I mostly fish NWIowa with a few trips to South Dakota and occasionally a trip to Lacrosse WI. We sight fish clear water for blugills and crappies a lot. Super fun when they get picky and you have to do everything exactly right to get a bite. Just wondering what others are chasing.
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Walleyes, awesome. I chase them in the summer a lot. I used to ice fish for them but I usually head home long before they start biting good. Lakes in Iowa that I fish arent big enough to necessitate transportation. On 2000 acres, I can walk. 5000 acres something would be nice but I mostly avoid big lakes unless I can drive out. Plenty of fish in small lakes. Thanks for replying.
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Looks good Paul!!!!! Better than my lutefisk!!! Care to share the lake?
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Looks good Paul!!!!! Better than my lutefisk!!! ... January 7, and the "Understatement of the Year" award has already been wrapped up.
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When one chooses their hard water fishing spots are they same general area one would fish in soft water times?
Fish the same areas year after year?
Have never fished hard water so it is all foreign to me!
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Looks good Paul!!!!! Better than my lutefisk!!! Care to share the lake? Eagle Lake, Richard !
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When one chooses their hard water fishing spots are they same general area one would fish in soft water times?
Fish the same areas year after year?
Have never fished hard water so it is all foreign to me! Kind of, but not always ! In the mobile shelter photo above, we were fishing a hole I found in the fall. hole is 30-32 feet, all surrounding real estate is 25-20 feet. I fish reef edges a lot in summer, winter, I'm generally looking for 25-28 feet flats, not far from those reef structures. Spring ice, fish the spawning areas. Our Walleye season closes for a month, during the late april, early May spawning period.
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NW Ontario is why we drive 13 hours just to get there to play with your fish. Once you've seen fishing in Canada, you say to yourself why bother even fishing here?
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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When one chooses their hard water fishing spots are they same general area one would fish in soft water times?
Fish the same areas year after year?
Have never fished hard water so it is all foreign to me! Actually yes, fish are often very close to the same areas year round because the prey species are in the same areas. The same places year after year is a great question. To some extent yes, it's the same areas. Habitat and habits change so there can be different patterns. Our lakes got zebras so the water clarity is improved and now the weeds are growing deeper so the fish can find food and shelter deeper. We also got curly pond weed which has pissed off all the landowners but the fishing is through the roof. Its basically a hatchery for baby fish. In our lakes, things have never been better. I'd never drive to Canada to fish. I might for hunting but we have tons of great fishing in the US. Is it better there? of course it is but it's a long darn drive past a ton of fish to get there.
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Hard shack out ! What are you using for sleds? Just bought a 2016 Expedition, upgrading???? for a 1996 Skandic.
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The one you can see there is my 2009 Tundra 550 fan, Deb has a 1994 MXZ 470 & the mean machine you can just see, is our Son, Doug's, 2011 Arctic Cat 1100 turbo.
Skandi/tundra/expedition are all excellent ice fishing sleds !
I used to have a '94 Skandic 503 before the tundra.
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Something clever here.
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My kid does ok on walleyes.
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Seems like one would be better off throwing the keepers in a cooler to keep them unfrozen and easier toclean later.
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If you throw them out to freeze, you can wait to clean them at your convenience with little loss in quality.
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Thanks Dave, yours too !! Lovin the snow coach ! My kid does ok on walleyes. YES, He does !!! Been some great weather, for it, since we've had enough ice !! Couple of days like spring fishing, even.
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