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Well, Seth described things very well in the other post. I got to his house around 7:30 this morning. Not sure what the temperature was, but somewhere in the low 20's for sure. Light flurries were falling as a result of lake effect of Lake Ontario. The forcast was for west winds switching to east winds by afternoon. Well, we saw none of that. The winds started out a very nice light breeze out of the northwest, making for an excellent drift.
We started up in a northern section of the lake, right were we left the smallies biting last weekend. I asked Seth what the water temp was, and he replied 36, and slightly climbing. It didn't climb much, as it stayed there the entire time we were in the area. On the first drift, Seth swung and missed on a couple fish, then I got the first one in the boat, right around 3 pounds
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Sorry for the picture quality, my camera was set on "burst " mode, and before I could figure out how to return it to normal, I released the fish before it froze solid LOL!!
Shortly after that fish, and on a second drift, the wind really calmed down, to almost nothing. I noticed this "matted weed" looking stuff between us and shore, and soon realized it was ice forming!!! Look carefully in this picture, and you will see "stuff" collecting on the surface.
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The ice was first small scattered pieces here and there. Then the pieces got more and more organized into small sheets of ice, then it became fully skimmed over from out past us, all the way to shore, nearly 75 yards out into the lake. This all happened in about a 1/2 hours time!!! We were still dragging tubes right behind the outboard (because the boat broke up the ice), but that was even becoming difficult. I caught another small 2 1/4 pounder here, and on the fight, it came up through some thicker ice. The cool part was the ice resisted the fish slightly before breaking back into the water again. It was getting thicker, even the trolling motor was starting to push sheets of broken up ice around. It was time to leave the area, even though the fish were there, and biting.
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A 3/8 ounce tube jig laying o the ice, and this was out in 30-32 feet of water well off shore!!!
We headed down south to a much warmer climate. Water temp was 39 degrees, and no ice out where we wanted to fish. There was some thicker ice in the shallows that made quite a racket as well pulled in and our wake hit shore. We each had bites right away, and awhile later on that initial drift Seth lands this beauty:
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Shortly after noon, we decided we were hungry and headed towards the trailer, and back to Seth's house. There, we noticed the temperature went all the way up to 26 degrees. Seeing it was so nice out, we decided to work on Seth's deck on the lakeside of the house a little.
It wasn't a numbers day (although we both missed enough strikes to make it a numbers day), but it was a day on the water, in December, when nobody else was on the lake.
We started up in a northern section of the lake, right were we left the smallies biting last weekend. I asked Seth what the water temp was, and he replied 36, and slightly climbing. It didn't climb much, as it stayed there the entire time we were in the area. On the first drift, Seth swung and missed on a couple fish, then I got the first one in the boat, right around 3 pounds
Sorry for the picture quality, my camera was set on "burst " mode, and before I could figure out how to return it to normal, I released the fish before it froze solid LOL!!
Shortly after that fish, and on a second drift, the wind really calmed down, to almost nothing. I noticed this "matted weed" looking stuff between us and shore, and soon realized it was ice forming!!! Look carefully in this picture, and you will see "stuff" collecting on the surface.
The ice was first small scattered pieces here and there. Then the pieces got more and more organized into small sheets of ice, then it became fully skimmed over from out past us, all the way to shore, nearly 75 yards out into the lake. This all happened in about a 1/2 hours time!!! We were still dragging tubes right behind the outboard (because the boat broke up the ice), but that was even becoming difficult. I caught another small 2 1/4 pounder here, and on the fight, it came up through some thicker ice. The cool part was the ice resisted the fish slightly before breaking back into the water again. It was getting thicker, even the trolling motor was starting to push sheets of broken up ice around. It was time to leave the area, even though the fish were there, and biting.
A 3/8 ounce tube jig laying o the ice, and this was out in 30-32 feet of water well off shore!!!
We headed down south to a much warmer climate. Water temp was 39 degrees, and no ice out where we wanted to fish. There was some thicker ice in the shallows that made quite a racket as well pulled in and our wake hit shore. We each had bites right away, and awhile later on that initial drift Seth lands this beauty:
Shortly after noon, we decided we were hungry and headed towards the trailer, and back to Seth's house. There, we noticed the temperature went all the way up to 26 degrees. Seeing it was so nice out, we decided to work on Seth's deck on the lakeside of the house a little.
It wasn't a numbers day (although we both missed enough strikes to make it a numbers day), but it was a day on the water, in December, when nobody else was on the lake.
