Weather
(1353) W 10 G 28, 38 ˚ clear, 30.31 rising
Water:
4.98 steady, 19.1 kcfs, clear
Location:
Pike Bay, pool 7
Caught:
four pike 31, 30, 28 & 25”
Partners:
None
Comments
It was a mid - week ice fishing excursion by airboat and I was flying solo. My quarry was going to be pike, and hopefully big pike. I did not have high expectations on account of the large pike kill we had this summer.
I was set up and fishing by 10:30 AM and by 12:30 PM I had landed three. Then around 1:00 PM my solitude was interrupted by another air boat with three fishermen. They were quickly set up and surrounded my tip ups with ones of their own. Within fifteen minutes they had their first flag and a very nice chunky pike that I estimated to be between 34 and 36”. After that first fish they had fairly consistent action and iced about six fish total. And of course they kept and butchered the big fish and let the little ones go. I always get rather discouraged by ice fishermen; they seem to have the mentality that large fish are limit less. I do keep pike from time to time, but never anything over 28” and usually no more than two.
Between the arrival of the other fishermen and the time I left the ice which was around 5 PM I only caught one more fish. The other three fishermen also pan fished, but they did not catch a single fish jigging.
Observations:
I took the airboat from the landing at home up to pike bay, and between the two I did run across plenty of four wheeler tracks and snowmobile tracks. I was really surprised by all the traffic that was out there, because there is not a lot of ice out there. I did see numerous spots where either a four wheeler or a snowmobile had partially broken through. The ice thickness in Pike bay was around the 10 – 12 inch range.
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