You’ll be needin’ some mini-soda butter, Slammer, ta fry up those pickerel,,, err, excuse me - walleye.

Deer camp followed by a fishing trip… I bet if you had a tail it would be wagging! Have a great trip Dale, it sounds brilliant fun.

I usta fish alot...
But I only last a few hours at it now..on the few times I do go..

But iffin I had fishing buddys...
I think that..that would change quite quickly..

There is just something fun about all the ..Ball Bustin..that goes on with them... ;0)

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I usta fish alot...
But I only last a few hours at it now..on the few times I do go..

But iffin I had fishing buddys...
I think that..that would change quite quickly..

There is just something fun about all the ..Ball Bustin..that goes on with them... ;0)

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Completely agree Al, half the fun of heading away with the boys for a few days is the , err, 'gentle banter' 

Sooooo, envious! Brad

I love northern pike and walleye fishing. Both great fun. I have the pleasure of doing some hardcore northern pike fishing with a master fish cutter who can properly cut the pike, and they are great tasting fish iffin you have someone with the skill to get the meat (or you just don't care about the y bone).

Go get on them slimes!! Nothing better than cold water gators..my fav!!!!

Dunno whether anybody here will find this interesting, but what the hey????  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577516731382 

Fwiw, I think he/they did a pretty good job on the "Bom-bah-deer."  [I think the link ^^ will take you to a "contest" to name it.]

Dawson Bay is a couple or three hours north of us [not much farther north of the turn-off to the Barrows Music Festival  ].  When I was a kid a fish monger would make a more-or-less annual trip through our area of beautiful west-central Man-ee-toe-bah selling frozen mullets out of the back of his 1/2-ton. [I suppose he also sold other species, but mullets was all my mom ever bought.]   And, IMNSHumbleO, his name was quite apropos .... Mr. Schooley.

Well, the fishing trip to Land O Lakes , Wisconsin started out great. Got set up lat in the afternoon for the night bite and caught 2 nice Northerns, a nice bass and a walleye, and a few rock bass. Fished till dark until my buddies showed up. Friday as cold as it was we also did well on Northerns and caught a few walleyes too. Then the deep freeze kicked in and we woke up to -23 degrees.
After coffee and a huge breakfast, we forced ourselves to brave the cold temps. Spent the day watching tip ups from the huge pop up shack and the cold front shut off all fishing except a couple Northerns. In retrospect, I’m glad, because it was too damn cold to take gloves off to reset lines.
Must of been cold, as my 4 wheeler would not start out there that and luckily we could tow it off. Must of been froze, as it started the next morning after sitting in the garage.
Good food , Great friends, lots of laughs and even caught fish. Success!!!
Slammer!!!

More pics

-23 !? You’d make a fine Canuck!

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He'd never last as a Wild tho,,, he grew up in San Diego

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He'd never last as a Wild tho,,, he grew up in San Diego

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Hulo an welcome to Hawky Tawk!

You know Bussie looked look the other night, but LT is still the guy. OV reminds of myself. I just stand at the top and wait. Lol

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New Ice Fishing season!!! My 2025/2026 ice fishing begins tomorrow morning. I’m
Heading to Land O Lakes , Wisconsin to hook up (no pun intended) with my old Wisconsin fishin buddies. This is an annual thing and it’s on early this year.
We have 4-6 inches of really good ice and only about 3-4 inches of snow on top.
The shore and land have 20 + inches of snow. Luckily the big snow happened before the lake froze over. There will be 6 or 8 of us and we’re allowed 3 lines per man. Will be doing mostly Tip up fishing with large shiners for northern and large suckers for walleye. Gonna be a high of ZERO !!! We’ll have 2 large hub shacks and my flip over. Taking my four wheeler to haul all our gear and make runs to the cabin, which by the way is a beautiful lake home, to get supplies if needed……………aka……Beer!!! The best part is……….Great group of friends that truly look forward to seeing each other, fish, and yuc it up!!!
I’ll report back Monday and post some pics. Wish us Luck!!!
Slammer!!!

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Sorry Dale, but just finished up on a 19 degree morning walk (actually yesterday) and right now ice finishing doesn't seem all that appealing.  But I know you love it and in your neck of the woods have probably figured out to a way to stay warm.  So have a great season and bring in a bunch of Northerns and Walleyes (one of my favorite eating fish). 

That looks like you've had a cracking time Dale - some fantastic pike there. I'm heading to Scotland for a week on Saturday, I'm planning to do some sea fishing for Pollack and my brother in law wants to drag me to a freshwater loch in search of a pike. Tell me, do you use wire traces (leaders) for the pike? they're pretty standard kit here for the toothy critters.

Thanks John, we’ll do !!! Yes it was damn cold and we’re used to it , but this was extreme for middle of December. Thawing the fish out as we speak!!!
Slammer!!!

Hey Jonty, sounds like a great trip and great eating fish!!! I primarily use fluorocarbon leader line in 10 lb. test and a #8 or #10 treble hook. Have had good luck, but my goto used to be 7 strand wire leader that I made and rigged on tip ups. Too time consuming . I could buy them but what fun would that be. The flourocarbon is much easier and we do have occasional bite offs , but rarely. Pretty strong stuff and abrasion resistant.
Good luck and take some pics for us!!!
Slammer!!!

Good looking slimes Dale!! I love toothy gators, and honestly often prefer them to eat after a summer of Lake Erie walleye. Pike chowder is a fav, as well as pike patties. We are just getting some walkable ice, but its getting warm this week so I think were gonna loose it...DAMN!!! As far as ATVs in the cold...I have a truck battery mounted on my back rack and use it rather than the tiny ATV batteries...always lots of juice..

They all said it could happen and I never believed it, but…………………..
Ol’ Slammer got skunked ice fishing the other day!!! Who’d a thunk???
Did manage to enjoy great Sundown view!!!
Slammer!!!

Yeah but the Buddy banter is worth it... ;0)

Hasn't gotten cold enough yet for ice fishing here in central Florida.
Joe

A fellow from Manitoba's Interlake region posted this pic of the sunset over Lake Winnipeg [Dec. 18, I believe] to Facebook: