2018 - Lakers & Eyes on ice

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2018 - Lakers & Eyes on ice

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A good season... caught a decent number of fish across a few outings, several different lakes to mix things up a bit. Mostly targeted lake trout, but a few walleye as well. Lakers are a personal favourite through the ice, and they cooperated, some smaller 3s, some nice 6-9s and ... a few biguns came airside too.

This ice season I switched to an inline reel, I like the absence of line twist and the free-fall. The new reel had it's drag put to the test more than once... and it passed. Smooth drag, which made some screeching noises a few times... but that was a good thing :)

Several lakers this size for the cedar plank on the BBQ
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25" walleye with a bloody nose
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Lakers... Hit hard and fight hard... THUMP!!
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Tanks for the memory...
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Then... this... 35"x 20" squeezed through an 8" hole. A new PB
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Ice WAS good this winter, trout have bit, reel peel happened, and records were broken, twice.
A good season, which now appears to have reached it's end.

8) O4T
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When you said some BIGUNS.... :shock:
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Beauty Greys Len. That must have been a tight squeeze through an 8" hole. I bet the nerves were going big time. Big congrats on the new PB. So what reel did you get? I guess you got the drag disks worn in well.

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SOLID SEASON!! Some beauts there sir! :D
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Wow those are huge lakers, just wondering are those coming out of lakes in the Ottawa Valley?
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Awesome fishing! Looks like you had a fun season with some beauty fish to boot. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully your spring will be just as good!
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very awesome! great fish! hope you dont mind me asking, lake O?
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Wow, fantastic season for ya, congrats on your PB.

Thanks for sharing, hopefully we'll see more O4T reports this year. :handgestures-fingerscrossed:
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That's a beauty O4T.Looks like you have em dialed in. Congrats :D
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Great fishin Len! Some beauty Lakers for sure!

Thanks for sharing with us here at FH, it is appreciated.

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Thanks folks,
Smitty - I'm not one to push products, but since you asked, the reel I picked up is an Eagle Claw Magnum Inline. Seems to work ok but only time will tell if the nylon frame holds up.

Valley lakes - several 3lb "popsicles" this season were from Muskrat, I fished it one cold day only, but no big fish came from the valley.

Reports - hope to get out on the water more often this spring/summer than the past 2!!
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Some solids right there Len! Was a great ice season.
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