Day 1 Boys weekend Feb 6

[kevin]

Boys fishing weekend

The weekends this year have been so busy with family things and kids activities that ice fishing has taken a back seat with only being able to get out a couple of times. So this weekend we have put everything aside and after swimming lessons today the fishing weekend starts.

Since it was early afternoon already, figured that we would stay close to home and hit a local pond and try for some crappies and sunfish. Ice conditions are shaping up very nicely as there is no snow on top and this pond we are looking at 13 inches. Today's weather was cool and breezy and definitely still feel the chill of winter out there.

This particular pond is a water reservoir and we stayed near the dam end in deeper water. The area that we were working is the transition area from the shallower backside to where the water drops off into deeper water that is on the face of the dam.

Once dropping our jigs down there the Vexilar screen lit up with fish and they were there the whole time we fished. There were many lookers but with the cold front that had come through many of these wouldn't commit to the bait.

As I was working my bait my son says "dad, I have a fish on" and I look over and his rod was doubled over. I told him that was not a crappie that we were looking for and was something much bigger. He was struggling to get this fish in and after coaching him to try and tire the fish out, a nice 3 pound bass came up through the hole.

He was very excited and wanted his picture taken and was ready to catch whatever was willing to bite. We fished these fish for a while and caught some crappies and sunfish and was nice getting on the ice again. This is our fishing weekend and tomorrow we are leaving first thing in the morning for a trip to New Hampshire and in search of large and smallmouth bass.

Stay tune and check back tomorrow and see if we are able to pull this off.

[zim-cat]

nice looking fish looks like he was happy

[bobo1]

Great fish by that young man!

[kenneth V]

thanks for the report and best of luck hope the little guy out fishes you lol

[Timotha7]

Great fish!
Thanks for posting that Kevin

Tim

[dipper69_2000]

way it looks your off ta a great start. hope the rest of the weekend went well.

[kevin]

We wish that the second day would have been productive but high winds and cold temps didn't allow us to go where we wanted, had a few bites but couldn't connect on them, there is always next weekend, don't want to catch all of them :)

[dipper69_2000]

weather has been bad all across the country. was super windy here sat. but sunday was beautiful. now we are getting the cold and snow again.
hope it works out better for ya this next weekend.