this is a trilogy of funny ice stories..........

many moons back on mogadore 2 friends went ice fishing with me, they never iced fish before. it was about 15 deg , 10 pm  in my shanty. the ice was very noisey and about 14 inchs of ice and 6 more in in snow pak  lol   we had 6 holes and catching fish. now  really noisey ice is growing.  cracks that night were above average to almost spooky   ...well all of a sudden a super crack echoed accross the lake and you could hear it coming   kshhhhhhhhhh  ran right under us accross all 6 holes, glurped , and shook the shed and keept goin. i think my 2 friends ripped the door off tryin to get out as they scrambled over me...


another tale on skeeter in the shanty  , got out to get another gas bottle and noticed it was snowing sideways almost blizzard . another shanty was about 20 yrds away and while watching i saw fish pop out the door and land on the  ice... cool i thought    but   there was a big bird standing there and when a fish popped out that bird gobbled it up, the guys inside had no idea this was happening.  well i watched for a minute  laughing my butt off every time a fish popped out and mr bird  grabbed it   hahahaha


and last    a group of us walkin out off the parking lot onto the ice  at a fav lake  , now i have to tell you we had 16 inches of ice .  and the trail out was 10 ft wide, ok    suddenly we hear oh chit and look over and 1  of the guys was stuck at the waist where he went thru some ones previous dunking,   now this guy is big and getting him un plugged was a challange     the end

my best tung jig  ( besides the one slab gave me)  .....this little baby hammers them. 

well folks spring is here and around here the ice is on its way out, sorry to say it.  so now im working on gettin the old boat ready for the best erie fishing or even better than the 70 s 80s  ...its going to be awesome , ITS ON.         hope to see ya up there ...   so if ya run accross  a blue white crestliner  with a big bahama mama umbrella  thats us ..lololol    see ya all stay safe  and fish it like ya stole it  ....hahhahaha

ok so i have some shore lunch now i need to add fish   lol    yeah man cook up some fish and drizzle with honey  w/ some horse radish,   perch with sweet lemon, wally with jalepeno poppers, if i keep this up im going to need a fish sandwich...  and yours

looks like some chilly temps on the way for a minute , might feel good about goin sat as long as the wind isnt howling . seems like the ice has survived well around here in akron. the weather patterns are crazy up down , was thinkin about goin today but the wind is rough, the last time out in this wind my bucket, scoop, and hat took off down the lake and could have made it to the other end in about a minute  hahah     this round may be a good one theres already a good base . 

well folks getting warmed up went to the chagrin yesterday with my bud and his gal for a couple hours. it was a nice day and I even managed a nice small trout on a jig and magg  under a float, my bud and his gal managed 4  ?   all fish swam away for someone else to enjoy.  theres lots of trout in the rivers so before ice go get some  ...

whats up,  found some morels yesterday at my buds  not a lot but its a start..

hey folks , went up to the chag with my buds . it was brutal cold and windy but the river was clear . the flow was good , not many guys fishin but it was cold. hard time throwing a float with the wind hitting me in the face. my buds and I started throwing spawn sacks , buds got 4 and I hadn't had a hit yet, I switched over to a small black jig w mag and it was game on, first fish was a male about 6 lb 28 long, took a minute to get that one in. the next 2 still on that jig one female w eggs another male somewhat smaller but a great fight. they didn't go airborne at all just stayed in the current. now my bud in lorain at blurred lines tackle ties these for me so I had to send him some pics of the fish on his jigs,,  haha   since he couldn't go I had to make up for it  right?