In between season behaviors

Post by **baz fish** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:46 am

Is it just me. But for a while now Im been feeling like cranky and not on a to good mood lately and its allways happen in between transition when we cant go fishing like the last week or so before the ice freeze over and the same sometime happen when its the tranzition between ice and open water. Im feeling like that every year during these time. is there some of you guy ho had these same feeling.

Post by **MTF** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:59 am

I don't want to talk about it

Post by **nips** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:59 am

Yah Baz, im the same way, I get a little ugly if I havn't been fishing in a week or 2. A bad case of ENS, empty net syndrome

Post by **Big Jim** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:27 am

Hey Nip's, I love you little blurb at the bottom about my undersize musky eating your bass...

Years ago I had a family on the Rideau River for a days guiding and later in the day the wife hooks about 4-5 largies in row in the 3-5 pound class in 20 minutes...her husband starts on her as all these bass came on fairly large musky lures and he was riding her butt something fierce about how a musky would kill all the bass if they were around ...he then hooks a baby lunge about 18 inches long ...and out of the blue here comes a well over 5 pound smallie and absolutley drills this little lunge broadside...shakes the crap out of it and splits all in about 2 seconds flat...needless to say it was a long rest of the day in the boat...she rode him something fierce and they both tried to get me on their side.

Almost ice time...

BIG JIM

Post by **S.M.05** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:47 am

Great story about that bass Big Jim.

Im in a better mood already.

Yeah I get cranky in between seasons. Although short for me, it still feels like forever.

Some times I look back at my own replies on here during the off season and I'm like what the?

Working like a mad man through the weekends is not helping

Ok think about the bass story, think about the bass story.

Ahhhhhhh

Post by **cprince** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:01 pm

How can I put this... ? Mmmm... well... two out three of my kids birthdays are about 9 months from now.

Colour it in as you like.

Craig

Post by **almontefisher** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:15 pm

cprince wrote:How can I put this... ? Mmmm... well... two out three of my kids birthdays are about 9 months from now.

Colour it in as you like.

Craig

So you really don't ice fish huh!!!

Post by **beachburger** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:53 pm

How can I put this... ? Mmmm... well... two out three of my kids birthdays are about 9 months from now.

Your mailman doesn't like hockey or football?

Post by **LeGrand** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:16 pm

marcthefisherman wrote:I don't want to talk about it

LOL

Post by **Fishing 24/7** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:31 pm

This is the best to to.

bring your reels in. get em fix or fix them yourself.

get ready for ice.

respool all reels make tip ups. tune auger .

find ways to make the best of your time on the ice.

organization.

im building some custom tip-downs for my ice fishing rods.

nothing to get grumpy about. go in da garage and find something to do that is fishing related.

once the ice is safe.... youl be ready for action.

Post by **Dore** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:14 pm

I usually map out the lakes and species I want to target in a couple of weeks. Books and the Internet can be very helpful and by the time that's all done it's usualy time to go out fishing. Do something fishing related

Post by **DropShotr** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:49 pm

Really?

I've been busy putting rods away, removing mono from reels, and turning my Power Pro around on my reels.

I've cleaned my reels and backed off the drags. I've got out the Hot Sauce and Hot Butter and have sauced and buttered my reels. I need to get a guide replaced on a rod.

I've sat down and reflected on my season....success and failure. What worked and what didn't. I've been deciding what plastics get replaced and what I let run out and not replace. I been researching new tactics for next year.

My skis are ready for skiing season

Ice fishing.........well.........don't do it much. My favorite was lakers. Buggers would darn near take the rod out of your hand on the strike, and they always made great dinner guests.

Drop

Post by **fatluke** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:25 pm

The only "in between" of my season is Monday to Friday.

Snapped this photo with the 'berry on Saturday of the "masked bandit" at 50 mph.

The mist from the boat was freezing as it dropped to the water behind us. It didn't bother me as it was only my second trip on the water since my hunting season started mid-September. It was great to be out washing lures. Although the game plan didn't come together, we did see what the French would call "un ours" on the dock upon our return in the late afternoon. I couldn't manage a photo as we were "caught in the moment".

Going to have to make a come back in the fishing game.......perhaps on the ice this coming weekend....

Post by **Moosebunk** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:43 pm

Ya don't realize how the summer sun and fun keeps the dull winter blues at bay. Around this time of year I stock on an extra 10 pounds of insulation, sit down at the computer and lift my head late February to go chase walleye.

Between the coming days of ice fishing and work... I have two bigger fishing projects to get started on, and trip planning for 2011.

Reel cleaning, hook sharpening, sorting and all that is usually a full day event in the spring...

See yas on the ice gang.

Post by **Bass Addict** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:09 pm

This time of the year is for the Birds in my back yard..

Fish-Hawk.Net

In between season behaviors

In between season behaviors

ironic