fishing reports

[Howboutthemdawgs]

T max if you read my prior post you would know that I don't take a spear anymore. Its no longer a challenge to me I so enjoy creating decoys to see what colors work the best and see how they react to it. I do use tip ups to catch and release most pike hence the 24 inchers. However I do enjoy catching perch and bluegill with my jig rod

I like my pike alive. If you’re going to eat the speared ones than ok but I imagine most end up in a ditch

 

[sandbur]

I like my pike alive. If you’re going to eat the speared ones than ok but I imagine most end up in a ditch
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I know no one that puts them in the ditch. Some spear the smaller ones for pickled fish. I prefer a certain size to eat. Occasionally a neighbor gets a meal of fish. There are precise limits based on numbers and length and there are three zones in our state. Then throw in special regulation lakes.

I pass on quite a few fish. It’s fun to watch them. Better than a screen on the new sonars, imo.

 

[BuckSutherland]

Took my 9 year old daughter up north fishing from Christmas-New Years Eve. We mainly fished lakes in the Chippewa National Forrest. We fished pretty hard. First day I took her walleye fishing and we found lots of gold on a 3,000 acre lake. She caught about a dozen walleyes all by herself jigging a buckshot rattle spoon and on a bait feeder reel tipped with a golden shiner. We had a great fish fry of fresh walleyes. Went back a couple days later and found a tougher bite but still found a limit of walleyes to bring home.


She loves to fish crappies. I know a couple remote puddles that have lots of 9-11" crappies. They provide LOTS of action for her. We set the house up 2 different days on a really nice school and she probably caught well over 100. While she crappie fished I set up a shiner minnow on the bait feeder reel to target northern pike. She caught a 29" and a 32" about 15 mins apart. She also got 27.5", 27" and had one other 2lb line snapped by a really nice one at the hole. It was really hard to get her to leave the hot crappie and pike fishing. She can fish a long time!!! We had a blast and brought a couple bags of fish home to enjoy. Almost no development on the lakes we fished. She also learned to clean fish and now likes to remove the skin from our fillets. We got a few quick photos of the pike and released all of them. Hopefully we can reconnect on them next year when they are much bigger. Very pleasantly surprised with the size of the pike and the great walleye bite we found.

 

[matinc]

Buck I sure hope your removing the back fat and lateral line before your cooking those fillets. That's just nasty.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Buck I sure hope your removing the back fat and lateral line before your cooking those fillets. That's just nasty.

I’ve never heard of back fat or lateral line removal on crappies and walleyes.

We remove the lateral line on white bass, but I’ve never seen fat on any fish.

 

[Mortenson]

I don't know what back fat is either. I remove the lateral line on walleyes once they get to around 18".

 

[BuckSutherland]

Buck I sure hope your removing the back fat and lateral line before your cooking those fillets. That's just nasty.

I will take out some of the pin bones/lateral line on walleyes over 15" and on bigger panfish. I don't want her to get a bone. She loves to eat fish. If they are small enough and I can fry the bones out I don't do much with them. You can see some of the small pieces I have cut up for her cause she loves walleye nuggets. These fish all come from lakes with excellent water quality and near zero development. Taste is phenomenal.

 

[sandbur]

I will take out some of the pin bones/lateral line on walleyes over 15" and on bigger panfish. I don't want her to get a bone. She loves to eat fish. If they are small enough and I can fry the bones out I don't do much with them. You can see some of the small pieces I have cut up for her cause she loves walleye nuggets. These fish all come from lakes with excellent water quality and near zero development. Taste is phenomenal.

Congratulations to both of you!

 

[Angus 1895]

Awesome!

Congratulations!

No ice here in Idaho to speak of.

Been re loading and cleaning the man cave.

Rode a horse a couple of times…….I don’t know if ice fishing is gonna happen as I gotta leave the end of the month.