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[Yankee]

Well I went home for the holidays in hope of doing some fishing if there was enough ice. Well it was Xmas Eve and we where going over the Erie Canal Lock system on the Oswego River and noticed that there were people on the ice after the last lock. After Xmas we went to check it out to see if there was enough ice since it was on the river and early in the season to freeze enough for fishing. Sure enough there was 4" of Ice. So we planned on Friday morning checking out if the fish were there. We get out there at a crack of dawn and plan on fishing for only a couple of hours. I bought my camera but the cold weather killed the battery so no pictures. We ended up with 16 keepers and caught over 30. Later that day, we drove up to Fair Haven to look at Blind Sodus Bay which is off of Lake Ontario to see if the ice was good there since the fishing is better there. We get there and there were people out there fishing. So I and my Dad walked out there to take a look. Here is an active expansion crack which is a good sign that ice is making. I call them live because you can step on one side and the other will rise.



So we planned on getting there early on Saturday to get our spot. I had a feeling that we where going to have good luck because there was a cold front coming in Sat. We get there and walk out to the spot my Dad fishing every winter. I, my sister and my Mom went in on a Clam 2000 (Ice Fishing Tent) for his birthday, so we tried it out for the first time on this trip. We get out there and drilled the holes and set the shack up.

Here is a picture with it set up, if you look inside you will see the special Ice Fishing Breakaway LDX with a Penn 4500ss LOL!!!!



Here are some of the other Shacks set up.



Here is another picture with that group having Tip Ups out which they use to catch pike and crappie with.



Well it started out pretty slow but about an hour after sun up we started into them. We were pulling them up two at a time. I could tell the front was coming in cause it was getting colder and starting to snow so we zipped everything up and started the heater up. About an hour later you could tell the wind picked up and we where thankful for the shack.

I zipped down the door to look out and the front was in.



It was about Noon and we decided to pack up and head back to start cleaning the fish. We left them biting with hopes that they where going to be there in the morning.

Here is a picture of the hole inside the shack. There was 5" of good Ice.



Here is the Yankee style Yak LOL!!! It is the Shack folded down. If you look you can see the snow that we got while we where out there. The ice was clean when we went out.



Well we got home and my Dad cleaned all the fish since he has his own way in filleting them. We get up Sunday and head back to the lake.

Here is a picture as we start to walk out on the ice. We did get some more snow overnight.



Well it was a lot slower with most of them being too small but we ending up with 26 with more then 50 caught. So we quit early to since they where not biting. All in all a great weekend fishing with my Dad that was long over due.

Here is the shack set up and me outside showing you how it done drilling holes threw the ice. Hey Henry if you look I was pimpin a Longhorns hat just for you. Also to the left you can see the heater that we use inside.



Here is what the greatest eating fishing threw the Ice. They are Yellow Perch. I am waiting on my Dad to email me the picture of the mount of fillets from the 76 that we caught on Saturday.

[rabbit]

Very nice. They are a smaller version of the walleye.
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[Bwanablue]

Good report, Jim. My maternal grandparents lived on a lake outside Oshkosh, Wisconsin and the first photo taken of me holding a fish I'd caught was taken at their house when I was about 7 yrs. old. It was a yellow perch. They're great tasting fish.

[tyler]

Yankee,
Thanks for the great frozen north ice fishing report. It got so cold here during the holidays we thought about turning on the heat once but didn't as the temps were over 78 degrees and about 85 on New Year's Day.

Those perch do taste like their walleye cousins.

TT

[Bluffer]

Looks cool!....thats one type of fishing I can say I've never tried.
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[SurfRunner]

Neat report!

I bet those fish are really good to eat. It seems that the colder water I catch fish in, the better it tastes......Maybe it's in my head, but I don't think so.

[Yankee]

[surfrookie]

Great report Jim! Fishin with Dad is great in any weather.
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