27th annual Maine ice fishing trip

[Pygmy]

5 hours ago, crappyice said:

Are they bad for fishing?

From what I read they are pretty harmless...Not bad for anything.... Kinda like me in my old age...

[mowin]

 Think we're around 18 fish for the trip so far, one of the less productive trips.  Lots of laughs and good times. Rained quite a bit yesterday leaving few inches of water on the ice. Sleds looked like jet skis going across the lake 

Couple pics of the camp. 

Edited February 18, 2023 by mowin

[mowin]

Couple deer takin from the area by family members yrs ago.  The larger one grossed 139.  Dean found this sign in a old cabin that had fell down. It's his wife's great great grandfather who built their camp many many yrs ago.  

The bone hanging from the brow of the smaller buck is from the vertebrae of dean's sons moose.  

The last pic is of the moose taken while staying at this camp.  I was involved in the bottom two kills.  

[mowin]

Last fish of the trip. A touge and a whitefish. 

Edited February 19, 2023 by mowin

[grampy]

Great looking camp with lots of cool history.

My kinda place!!

[Wolc123]

10 hours ago, mowin said:

Last fish of the trip. A touge and a whitefish. 

Whitefish are real good eating when you smoke them with apple wood.  Lakers are fun to catch thru the ice, so so tasting smoked with strong hickory wood, but not nearly as good eating as the mild flavored whitefish .  It seems that the colder the water, the harder the Lakers fight.  

Edited February 19, 2023 by Wolc123

[Pygmy]

13 hours ago, mowin said:

Last fish of the trip. A touge and a whitefish. 

 

[Pygmy]

.Togue.....Been awhile since I',ve heard that term....But then I guess it's been nearly 20 years  since I've been in Maine..

[mowin]

11 hours ago, Wolc123 said:

Whitefish are real good eating when you smoke them with apple wood.  Lakers are fun to catch thru the ice, so so tasting smoked with strong hickory wood, but not nearly as good eating as the mild flavored whitefish .  It seems that the colder the water, the harder the Lakers fight.  

Whitefish are fantastic just fried or baked.  All the lakers went back in the water because they just don't taste good.

[Wolc123]

22 minutes ago, mowin said:

Whitefish are fantastic just fried or baked.  All the lakers went back in the water because they just don't taste good.

They sure are fun to catch thru the ice though.  I’m kind of sad that there will be no good ice up in the Dacks on President’s day weekend this year, when we usually go ice fishing at my in-laws place near Harrisville.   
 

There’s not many Lakers left in the lake up there.  The last one I caught was about 5 years ago.  It’s been about 15 years since they were last stocked there.  Usually, I get about a dozen smallmouth bass over a couple days, which all get released and don’t fight worth a crap in the cold water, and maybe a perch or two.  
 

We went to Brantingham lake on Super Bowl weekend for a few years and that has lots of whitefish.  It also had rainbows, which fought good thru the ice, but could not be kept. I also pulled a largemouth bass thru the ice there once, that might have been 8 pounds, but that also had to go back.