<p>it's been a great start to the winter, other than my electronics effin' up. It's come in like a lamb with mild daytime temperatures and lots of snow but it's still cold enough at night to make ice. Given that winter in the NWT lasts more than six months I can't expect this to last but I'll enjoy it while I can. Had six inches of ice at my whitefish spot yesterday. Bite was slow in the morning but picked up around lunch.</p>
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That is awesome, man. I wish we had ice down here in central NY already! I'm absolutely itching for my first season of ice fishing.
Chain Pickerel: All the bad assery of a Northern Pike wrapped up in a smaller, prettier package.
Nice fish, Mike! Iam really looking forward to my first ice trip of the season.
Hey odds are that's three more of those than I'll be seeing when the ice arrives around here...
Well done. 6'' eh..I bet it's growing an inch per day there now.
Eli
Thanks guys, the whitefish got really aggressive in the afternoon, zipping around and basically charging and chasing down the jig. Very shark-like in their behaviour. I was watching it all under the ice as the water is only about eight feet deep. A lot of fun to watch.
These guys have very varied diets. One fish had sticklebacks in its gut -- no surprise because the action of the jig I was using I think resembles a smal fish; then some enormous caddisfly larvae -- house and all -- in the gut of the other; and the third fish had mysis shrimp in it and ther bugs.
mike b
Dolly Varden? Just a guess. I'd be glad to know. You call them "whitefish." But sounds pretty generic, eh?
I smell feet. Or is that the fish you caught today?
Coregonids look so damn cool. I'd love to catch one, any sorta one, sometime.
But I don't want any part of no kinda ice!
Don't freeze up there, Mike!
Fishn sure is neat
Rank Amateur: These were Lake Whitefish that Mike B caught. Whitefish are a Salmonid (like trout, grayling, chars, etc) but in a genus of their own and are much different than Dolly Vardens.
Dolly Vardens are a member of the Char genus much like Brook trout and Lake trout.
http://www.roughfish.com/dolly-varden/
Chain Pickerel: All the bad assery of a Northern Pike wrapped up in a smaller, prettier package.
You're missing out Gijs. It's a pretty relaxed gig when you got your ice fiishing tent, heater and some camp chairs. Even better when you get to snowmobile there.
mike b
nope! winter isnt here! i hereby deny all winter-ing.