Fishing for ice Options

[cjbrock]

Yes, I was up on Lake of the Woods again this weekend. Here's a brief taste:

When you are at the corner of Bobber and Perch,



you have to make a decision. Either go north on Perch and fish in a traditional ice house:



or head east on Bobber, then right on Main and run out to The Igloo bar:



They've got pizza, a full bar, big screen TV, heated mens and ladies biffies in those green houses, and holes you can fish through in the floor. A hole cost $5/hr, and a beer was $4. If you actually get a fish on though there is a lot of pressure to handle it neatly, as the entire bar packs around your table to watch. Pretty crazy, I think the Wisconsin boys are a little jealous.

Oh yeah, how'd we do? Four of us in two days landed 23 keepers (12-19" mostly sauger with a few walleye), threw back about twice that many smaller guys. A couple of eelpout for Spikre and a very nice perch finished off the total.

[Spikre]

John,
will the Eelpout be arriveing by USPS or UPS ??
just wondering,,,,?
as USPS usaully sends my boxes all over the complex here before they
make it to the door.
Spikre

[rhpd42002]

John,

That's quite a place, to say the least.

Guess I'd be at the Igloo bar eating pizza and drinking beer, WATCHING someone fish!!

[Smudgeloco]

Doing anything on ice - well, just not for me. Great pictures though.

[tankertoad70]

Great pix and amenities far beyond what I remember of my days in Grand Rapids and ice fishin' on Pokegama. There were days when we hadda "blast" through 2.5 to 3 feet , yes feet, of ice inside the fishin' hut just to enjoy a bit o' fishin'.

[cjbrock]

Don. the ice was around 2.5 feet - thin for this time of year and the solid cold we had. They got an early snow cover and it never really thickened up to the point the auger extension was required. We were fishing a lake probably 20 miles south of Hwy 2 and it had at least 3 feet in January.

I just thought of what I need to do - I need to throw down a quick 'garden railway' outside the shack next year.