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Spent a great (but cold) night on the ice with my favourite fishing partner.

I raised my hut about 4 inches this year (due to the high water on the ice last year). Wow, makes a big difference in how much wind comes whistling up through the holes inside the hut! Going to add collars for sure.

It was an odd night, started out so calm that we had a fire (Shirley's Bay) and BBQ hamburgers for dinner.


The night got progressively windier and eventually the ice-rain had caked everything in a thick layer of ice. That didn't stop the action and overnight we saw Ling, Walleye and Perch come through the holes (biggest Ling at 9 PM, smallest at 4 AM. Biggest walleye at 4:45AM),


One of the walleye found it's way to the pan for a wonderful breakfast.


According to Jon, it was better than burgers. I have to agree.

Right on man!

That's great stuff right there. My kids would love to sleep/fish on the ice. I would too actually. If you can, try to do another ice sleepover around the full moon next week. The walleyes should be on fire then...

Walleye'm Fishing wrote:That's great stuff right there. My kids would love to sleep/fish on the ice. I would too actually. If you can, try to do another ice sleepover around the full moon next week. The walleyes should be on fire then...

Yannick and others have great huts to rent...

Even though we have our own, it is a two-person. So we are renting a larger one from Yannick for later in January.

Congrats on some nice fish and the young fella sure is enjoying that fresh fish

That looks like a little piece of paradise!!

Good job Scarkner! Was nice getting to meet you last weekend. For the wind - Just shovel snow completely around your hut so its higher than your floor boards - draft will be gone.

CCLadd

Nice! Looks like you had fun.

CCLad wrote:Good job Scarkner! Was nice getting to meet you last weekend. For the wind - Just shovel snow completely around your hut so its higher than your floor boards - draft will be gone.

CCLadd

Yeah, that worked well last year, should have done it this year but was expecting the rubber skirts to keep out the wind. Nope!
By the time the wind came up it was near midnight and I just couldn't muster up the energy to start shoveling snow at that hour!

Your hut looks amazing!

Oneeleven wrote:Your hut looks amazing!

Your welcome to come for a tour, if you see the lights on, just come over and say hi.

This is awesome. I miss my shack some days. Maybe next Fall I'll build another one!

RJ

Looking good! Hope you get lots of use out of the shack this season. Any newly invented gadgets to jig and beep while you snooze?

Yeah, my shack has more lights, alarms, indicators, detectors... It's a little insane. I really need to build less inventions....

It's like trying to sleep INSIDE a Christmas tree!

That could've been a wonderful moment right . Spending a day with kids, that too in the ice is really awesome.