Ice fishing this saturday

[Bob Parsons]

A couple mild days should have little effect on the ice so I'm going to hit Mashby-Wakeby this saturday. Anyone care to join me?

[BobG]

A couple mild days should have little effect on the ice so I'm going to hit Mashby-Wakeby this saturday. Anyone care to join me?

Ahhhh, Bob if it stays like this, I wouldn't trust ANY ice on the Cape this weekend. :eek: Did you catch the 11pm news last night? A father and son I know fell through Great Herring pond yesterday, and needed to get rescued.
I just went on shore patrol this morning, and the bay is really breaking up as we speak.
Cogita ante salis :brow

[Thunder Rod]

Hey Bob P...

BDowning and I fished M-W on Sunday. I thought about you while I was there, knowing how you like to ice fish the Cape ponds. There was about 4-6-8 inches of ice depending on where you were standing. The herring run channel was pretty thin, but we made it over ok on our way out to the 30-foot hole. The nights are still dropping down to the 20's and teens this week, so the ice should be ok for the weekend.

BillD was the star of the day with two very nice browns, about 2.5 pounds each, and one huge, award-size perch at 1.6 lbs. I guess it was my job to drill the holes, cook lunch, and keep the small perch out of his way with my strategically placed tipups.

Also saw some guys cleaning a pretty large fish near the herring run, looked to be a trout maybe.

Nice pond, definitely would like to fish it more often. Have you or anyone you know ever caught one of those white catfish through the ice?

-John-

[bdowning]

That herring run channel may be a big river by the weekend! (#$119) But the ice is plenty thick on either side of it if you can get to it. You may have to walk the shoreline a bit and cross the outlet creek.

Of course you could avoid it altogether by going to the right of the boat ramp instead. :brow

-bd

[JigMaster5]

you probably don't need me to tell you this.....but the reports of people falling thru the ice on the south shore are on the rise. i can't imagine the cape ice is much better......you might try A1 instead. :-%

[Trout77]

Sorry guys,

Ive got my flies tied, leaders knotted, and all of my fly-gear (topo maps and all) in my car trunk!! and Im waiting for ice-out and spring!! --127-3-

[Thunder Rod]

12-degrees overnight tonight, yeah, I think it'll be plenty safe...


You still going Bob? I'm fishing either way, but I'm still see-sawing about whether to stay local or to drive down to the Cape...

-John-

[Bob Parsons]

Still going. I will be driving down the cape tonite. I will try to be at the beach by 7am. I can only get medium shiners or large so I will be stuck catching only the larger trout/ I will pick up have sausages and eggs, hrmm english muffins would be good too. Bring you own coffee as I drink diet coke even for breakfast. http://www.reel-time.com/forum/images/smilies/banana.gif

[Thunder Rod]

I'll P.M. ya Bob...

[Thunder Rod]

Couldn't beat the weather...

And no one starved out on the ice with Bob and his handy grill out there!

Photos: My brown trout was about 18", and Bob's pickerel was almost 4-lbs. Didn't bother posting the perch pics...

(Got a few more for you Bob if you'd like me to e-mail them to you...)

[Bob Parsons]

Saturday Bill and I braved the cold and wind. The morning was tough to expose your fingers, especially if they got wet. Bill got a nice trout, I got just perch. The day was made bearable by sitting in a small nich in the edge of woods out of the wind.

Sunday was a suberb day weather wise. Sun warmed up nicely as the day progressed. wind was mild. Sausage and eggs didn't freeze up instantly when taken off the grill. And once again I got skunked on the trout. But the two good pikeral made up for it.