OT: Ice fishing for Lakers (DAY TWO UPDATE) another photo

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:37 pm

Clear and sunny. The blue sky from horizon to horizon over a northern lake. Here's your's truly, the Old Geezer, standing in the door of my friend's shack, with some Lake Trout. After catching our limits, we headed home for an amazing Moose steak supper. Life is great!

tman · Post by **tman** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:28 pm

very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

txpete · Post by **txpete** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:28 pm

now I am hungry

nice catch.
pete

bigbore442001 · Post by **bigbore442001** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:30 pm

You should get a small satellite TV for the shanty.

msmith1228 · Post by **msmith1228** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:38 pm

Kirk, I truly envy you.

Mack

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:41 pm

Did you catch any Ice??

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:51 pm

It doesn't get any better than that.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:56 pm

bigbore442001 wrote:You should get a small satellite TV for the shanty.

We have a stove in there, as well as a two-burner hot plate for cooking. We cooked up some venison sausages and beans for lunch. The shack also has two nice bucket seats from a car for snoozing in while we fish. Each seat has its own hole.

86er · Post by **86er** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:02 pm

Wow that's awesome!

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:13 pm

Dang, I don't see how it could get any better than that.

Post by **Hobie** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:16 pm

That photo brings back some memories. My grandpa LOVED ice fishing. Great fun!!!

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:18 pm

Looks like a private lake . Where are all the other shanties?

The fish look mighty tasty.

Bigahh · Post by **Bigahh** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:24 pm

Very nice Kirk! Just what the Doctor ordered.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:52 pm

BenT wrote:Looks like a private lake . Where are all the other shanties?

Heh, heh! That ain't no private lake. It's just that the further north you go, the fewer people there are.

dr walker · Post by **dr walker** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:12 pm

Nice catch.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:14 pm

very kewl. our lakes aren't even frozen

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:21 pm

Yer blest - In New England, hard water fishermen gotta shovel snow to get to it.

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JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:22 pm

Kirk, it looks like some time off has done you some good, real nice catch. Never fished Huron that far north. We caught a lot of yellow perch ice fishing out from Bay City and Saginaw.Be safe heading home.

BigSky56 · Post by **BigSky56** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:57 pm

Kirk thats a mighty fine day to go out and catch a limit of mackinaw and stay warm to boot. danny

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:24 pm

nice.

KirkD wrote: Each seat has its own hole.

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you know, this sounds like an outhouse i used to know.

otteray · Post by **otteray** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:50 pm

Certainly a different part of our great country. I catch macks on Lake Tahoe by mooching with live crawdads in the summertime.
Are whiskey or rum hot toddies required when fishing from inside an ice box? Brrrrr.
All kidding aside, nice catch! I gotta try that someday.

BigSky56 · Post by **BigSky56** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:39 am

Otteray, Theres some big macks in donner lake. danny

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:33 am

Thats the way life should be.....
having fun,....eating wild game....and drinking a real good beer!

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:40 am

I'm still thinking of the moose steaks.....uuuummmmmhhhh MY FAVORITE. I'd take a moose steak over the finest KC steakhouse steak every time. Tom

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:05 am

tman wrote:very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

very COLD!!!

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:46 pm

I take my hat off to ya Kirk, thats just about perfect

What is the gizmo on the door?

Nath.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:12 pm

Nath wrote:I
What is the gizmo on the door?

Nath, it is a depth finder/fish locator. It lets you know what is swimming around under the ice and how far down. We were fishing in 126 feet of water. Caught some nice ones today.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:32 pm

That ic-fishing-hut picture makes me want to watch "GRUMPY OLD MEN" again...!

Where's that cute red-headed old hippie-gal - she was in the movie too...

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:12 pm

Nice catch. I'm a fan of lake trout, especially when kippered.

I caught a decent salmon my first trip of the season, but things have been slow ever since. I'm going after lakers and rainbows tomorrow.

It was 21" in length, and I'm guessing about 3-4 lbs.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:44 pm

Nice Salmon and Perch!

mod71alaska · Post by **mod71alaska** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:56 pm

Looks like an icehouse Hilton!!!

Good catch, Kirk! Great winter fun!

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:54 pm

Day Two at the Ice Fishing Shack: The second day, my friend's whole family along with my wife and youngest daughter joined us out on the ice. For lunch, we cooked up a bunch of Lake Trout on the stove in the shack, the smallest ones ..... trout just doesn't taste better than when it is fried up fresh out on the ice. Here's a photo of the whole shebang ... my wife is the middle person in the doorway and my youngest daughter is to the left of her in the doorway (the girl with the red barrett in her hair). My friend's son is holding the first fish of the day, already half frozen, caught by his dad. My daughter tied into the biggest Laker of the trip and lost it as she and my wife were attempting to wrestle it out of the hole. We are heading home today with our limit of six fish, totalling about 20 pounds cleaned.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:06 pm

Kirk, you make us all feel as though were part of the family...all warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks a bunch!

nemhed · Post by **nemhed** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:12 am

Very nice, looks like fun for all! What function does the hi-lift jack serve for your ice fishing operation?

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:23 am

nemhed wrote:Very nice, looks like fun for all! What function does the hi-lift jack serve for your ice fishing operation?

The jack is to help free the runners under the shack from the ice. There is a ice chipper inside to chip along the outside edges of the runners, but the inside edges are not accessible. The shack gets moved around quite a bit, using a four-wheeler, to find the best places to fish.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:44 am

Kirk, that is a great picture!!

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:04 pm

Glad to see another good trip.
I didn't fare as well this morning. I caught two lakers that were too small to keep, 14-16 inch range. A couple of other guys out fishing iced a 29 incher that must have gone 8 lbs

Do you use tip-ups, or strictly jigging poles?

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:27 pm

Thats a wonderfull picture KD, say it looks like you wore away the top of your hat!

Is it from banging your head on a brick wall

Nath.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:16 pm

We were using a flat stick just over a foot long. Most of the time, the bites were very light and quick, so we had to set the hook instantly, otherwise they were gone.

Nath, that is a headwarmer, kind of like a broad sweat band.

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:59 pm

Looks fun, but I don't want to handle that much cold anymore.

Bigahh · Post by **Bigahh** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:12 pm

Kirk, that is interesting for you to be in that deep of water so close to shore. Must be a rock shelf that drops off fast! Are the fish near bottom?

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:31 pm

Bigahh wrote:Kirk, that is interesting for you to be in that deep of water so close to shore. Must be a rock shelf that drops off fast! Are the fish near bottom?

The bottom drops off fairly quickly where we were fishing. We found lots of small Lake Trout right on the bottom, 126 feet down (2 pounders). The bigger Lakers were about 40 to 50 feet down. We didn't discover that until the second day, although I saw lots of them there the first day on the fish finder, but didn't take it seriously, thinking they were little ones also. Once a fish bit, we'd have to haul that line hand over hand, furiously up in order to avoid loosing the fish. Still, we lost a lot on the way up. I also fished from an outside hole on the second day when the shack got a little too crowded. There, when I hooked a Laker, I'd simply start jogging away from the hole, holding onto my stick, and once I got far enough away, the fish would come flipping out the hole onto the ice ..... a lot easier than the hand over hand method.

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:02 am

Kirk we need you to come down and show us how to take and post pics BTW I used too icefish until i got divorced

the only thing missing was a lever propped against shack

Todd

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:56 am

Beaker wrote:Did you catch any Ice??

That's how I lost my sister (she was blonde)

She went ice fishing and drowned trying to fry it.

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:03 am

vancelw wrote:
Beaker wrote:Did you catch any Ice??
That's how I lost my sister (she was blonde)

She went ice fishing and drowned trying to fry it.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:39 pm

KirkD wrote:Day Two at the Ice Fishing Shack: The second day, my friend's whole family along with my wife and youngest daughter joined us out on the ice. For lunch, we cooked up a bunch of Lake Trout on the stove in the shack, the smallest ones ..... trout just doesn't taste better than when it is fried up fresh out on the ice. Here's a photo of the whole shebang ... my wife is the middle person in the doorway and my youngest daughter is to the left of her in the doorway (the girl with the red barrett in her hair). My friend's son is holding the first fish of the day, already half frozen, caught by his dad. My daughter tied into the biggest Laker of the trip and lost it as she and my wife were attempting to wrestle it out of the hole. We are heading home today with our limit of six fish, totalling about 20 pounds cleaned.

quite a crowd, that shack must be bigger inside than it looks.

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:30 pm

Sorry to necro the thread, but I couldn't resist posting a pic of my latest catch

I've been trying to get into some of these for a few years now. Apparently, they get much bigger in the great lakes and northern Canada. The Vermont state record is only 5.5 lbs.

tman · Post by **tman** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:22 pm

Jason_W wrote:Sorry to necro the thread, but I couldn't resist posting a pic of my latest catch

I've been trying to get into some of these for a few years now. Apparently, they get much bigger in the great lakes and northern Canada. The Vermont state record is only 5.5 lbs.

looks like burbot. yum

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:51 pm

tman wrote:
Jason_W wrote:Sorry to necro the thread, but I couldn't resist posting a pic of my latest catch

I've been trying to get into some of these for a few years now. Apparently, they get much bigger in the great lakes and northern Canada. The Vermont state record is only 5.5 lbs.
looks like burbot. yum

Yeah!!!

I'm going to adapt them to my dad's seafood chowder recipe.

I haven't decided if I'm going to go out again. I don't have any friends in the area who like to ice fish and it's getting a little labor intensive. I do like burbot fishing since they're meaty and don't require me to get up early.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:19 pm

I didn't mention it, but I hauled one of those Burbot out that same day Lake Trout fishing. It was about 28 inches long. I've got its fillets in the freezer to make a fish chowder soup.