A few days on the Horn

[CrappieKeith]

1st the fishing report.
The high pressure has done it again.
Who does a guy have to talk too to get below 30 barometer readings anyway for the weekends.?
Sure we have been catching fish ,but they are coming so tough to come by.
I'm beside myself. Move,move,move trying to find schools is near immpossible and when I do find the fish they are all small which is normal with a high pressure.
I had 4 guys...Phill,Jim,Johhny & Slushy up from Iowa and for the life of me I could not get them into the quality fish I know were there,but thet just were not feeding well.
Every once in awhile a nicer one gets caught.
Here's George once again with a nice slab.As you can see he's using T.H.E. Jig.
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Here's Jim watching the tip ups.
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This is Matt who I met on the ice.
They said the day before when the barometer was 29.6 they pounded some very nice fish.
My luck ....a day late and a dollar short.
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Fri. night we hit another lake after the day bite on BSL.
We manged several 8" crappies.Not what I was looking for ,but there was some action.
Here was the sunset.
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Sat. was the last day we fished.
We hit several spots on this day with not much to show for our efforts.
I think about 10 fish were caught all day between 5 people.
Johhny & I had 7 between us.
Here's Jonny with the big fish of the day.
It was sorta the stamp on the day.
I a big fat eelpout.Go figure.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/08%20ice%20fishing/08iceseason051.jpg
They used minnows of all sizes and waxies.
I used T.H.E. Jig and not bragging,just making a point.
I caught as many fish as the 4 of them.
This does not mean they are bad fishermen.Not by any means.
They were a blast to fish with and knew what was what.
Downsizing was the key.
It was too bad they came that far for the kind of treatment Big Sandy is know for dishing out.
I hope they had a better day today on the Big Pond.

[Illinoisgiller]

Keith, I guess that's why they call it fishing.:confused0024: This is why I very seldom plan a fishing trip long in advance. When I do it is usually a day or two in order to lessen the pain if times are rough.
As you well know, that pressure will get back to normal eventualy:icon_cool::icon_cool::icon_cool: Mike

[CrappieKeith]

I know these clippers can not keep rolling through all winter.
If that jet stream shifts just a bit we will be good to go.
In the meantime I'll keep my stick on the ice and my eye to the hole.

[gofish]

feel fer ya buddy....days like that all ya can do is keep movin.....happened ta me all last winter.....tough fishin every time we went.......may not git ice attall here this year..normally got a skim on by now:icon_mad:

[CrappieKeith]

It'll pick up around here.It always does.