Well ya'll, it was fun!
We started at the landing next to Lindy's at 6:30, walked out to 16'-17' and started fishin the infamous Bangs early bite. I did my best along with Scott to cut some holes and set-up equipment to get everyone started, then it was on! It was neat watching the "freezing fog" and all the frozen trees!
I think we caught 2 crappie and around 6 gills/redears in the a.m.? It wasn't too great, like I was hoping for! AND, I was going to bring my camera, but didn't, figuring someones GOTTA have one! Luckily Shaky had one on his phone and snapped a few!
So we fished until the fog cleared and then started to grill around noon.
(That was my favorite part!)
Dogs, brats, (thanks guys!) It was a great feast. We continued fishing in shallow, managing only a few small gills here and there... Got a flag and a drop
Got another flag after checking bait on all the tipups, Tracy wrestled the beast in, and it was about a 20 something" pike. Good job Tracy!

Travis had been seeing one on his aquacam swimming around the shacks and was trying to catch it jigging! He decided to throw a tipup down there (in his shack mind you...) and the sucker bit it right away! hahahah!!! It was about 26".

Then the fishing mood sluggishly continued on with the micro gills...
Keith and Creighton joined us... Joke was on them! We all hid in the shacks and watched those poor confused guys wonder around til we gave up! You guys are good sports!

Everyone that was on our side of Bangs was on the weedline and not out much farther. Well, Kyle and I grabbed our augers (again not much happenin anywhere 17' and less..) and looked for deeper anything! We drilled straight lines straight out into the middle. Scott doubled back behind us with his flasher to check depths, fish etc. Well finallly he found some deeper water AND a bottom transition! Hard to soft!
We ran back to the "camp", grabbed our sticks and headed out to see what could be...
Started markin fish right away and ended up more than doubling our mornings catch of keepers out there!!

Well, once the darkness started settling in, the "deep" bite got tough so I went shallow to wait and goof around..
The evening bite never occured, but we had fun, didn't we?!
Thanks everyone for coming! Thanks everyone that provided equipment for use! Thanks everyone for bringing food! Thanks everyone for being good sports!!! (630am-6pm is NOT an easy task!) I was sunburned, windburned and exhausted when I got home! But satisfied!!!

Most anglers go onto a lake and see what everyone else is doing, not what they're not doing.
Work is for those who can't catch fish!
As Captain Phil said, "You can watch $hit happen, you can make $hit happen or you can wonder WTF happend!"

hahaha yea travis kept seeing that pike and i was like screw it, im just gonna put a tip up in the shanty and i caught him lol. hopfully he puts up the video.
fun time though.

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good times great to see everyone! but i cant wait till ice out!

WWRJD?

I had a blast out there as well, watching kyle and tracy bring in 2 pike on tip ups, and catching my share of the pumpkin seeds. I think the best part of the trip was just hanging out!! Here are some pics keith sent me to put up on here.





The pumpkinseeds being caught, were the coolest fish I've ever seen. Check out these patterns/colors!!



I want to thank travis and alex for bringing the food ryan well thank you for putting me in your mafia and thanks everyone for showing up.

Also a big thank you to jimbo for letting most of us crash at your place the night before this big ordeal.

It was also great to meet ya brad, hopefully, we'll see ya soon.

I believe the rest of the pictures/videos travis has.

# of large mouth bass caught in 2010 :440
# of bass over 4 and under 5: 2
# of bass over 5 lbs: 3
# of smallies: 14

I had a great time hanging with all of you.

Nice job Kyle on the in-the-shanty tip-up pike! Check the video
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Nice pike Tracy!



Cool Redear Ryan


Good times, good laughs. Thanks everyone.

great video travis, I give half credit to travis for first seeing the pike. After we saw the pike in travis's camera, ryan ran to grab is jigging rap and we all tried for a 30 minutes watching the pike swim around in a big circle around our holes. Finally kyle decided to put the tip up in the shanty. A flag had gone off away from our campsite out in deep water, so we all ran over there to watch tracy bring that one up. After coming back to base camp, kyle sees his flag up in his shanty and nails the one in the video!!!

It was kind of neat to see how the pike reacted, we had freezing fog in the morning and as soon as the sun came out we had two flags with 2 pike.

# of large mouth bass caught in 2010 :440
# of bass over 4 and under 5: 2
# of bass over 5 lbs: 3
# of smallies: 14

Had a great time! I have to say the best part was the brats and dogs on the ice. The bite wasnt the greatest but we still managed to get some keeper gills and crappie. It was a lot of fun!

awesome video travis and pics as well. it was fun to see everyone and maybe one more time before the hard water is gone for me.

WWRJD?

fun times. glad to see my FTN fish idea worked out!

bitch dropp'n eggs!