Houghton Lake: Dec. 27th & 28th?

[Burksee]

Allright, we got the scoop on this past weekend (20th & 21st) now who's planning on coming up this weekend?

The family and I will be up to the cottage in Prudenville on Friday night (26th) and after a few checks off the "To-Do" list I'm planning on hitting the hard water in the afternoon til a little after dark. depending on the ice I plan on being out (south side) from the DNR launch, or mabey even the ELK's club. I dont know how the ice is out from Lyman's but I'll be stopping there for bait and a update. My radio will be on "8-0" (*FRS Channel 8, Freq./Code 0)

Hope to meet up with some other M-S'ers! :eek:

[scottyhoover]

I am a definite probably at this point :) Must go where there is ice.

[Ken Martin]

I will be in St Helen then and will be fishing on St Helen most likely. I'll send you my phone and maybe we can hook up.

Ken

[TrailFndr]

Burksee

Change the channel to 7...See post on Radio chanell, My frs/gmrs can not do FRS 8...

...Radio Channel (http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54765)

I am thinking about heading up Saturday morning for the day...If I do, I will fish the south shore weedbed. My final decision will be made on Friday when I talk to Lymans

[Burksee]

Originally posted by TrailFndr
Burksee

Change the channel to 7...See post on Radio chanell, My frs/gmrs can not do FRS 8...

...Radio Channel (http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54765)


TrailFndr, Already read that post and was going to post it here, Thanks! Great minds think alike! I know the weathers not looking good today but the long range for this weeked looks better.

[scottyhoover]

You know you're coming Lee! Ozzgood and I did our best impression of a blind squirell trying to find a nut last weekend. We need a team attack to get someone a fish dinner. We are thinking of friday or saturday just don't know yet. I'm game for both days. Forecast is cold up there the rest of the week, ice should be just as good as it was last weekend.

[flyguy]

Scotty, It was good to meet you guys last week. I will try to get there but I have to do the family thing and I don't know the schedule yet. I may be going friday because that looks like a free day for me.
I will put my radio on 7 also incase annyone else is there. If I do go before you do I will try to give a quick report if I get anything going. see ya on the ice

[slowpoke]

I don't think I can make it this time but you can never tell. If I do I will be on ch 7 code 0, read other post as to why. I will be up the first week-end of the new year. Scotty and ozz, if you don't find any other hot reports I would start where I was, if you can find it, at day break for an hour. If no luck I would move to the east where most of the people was that we saw last week-end. I think I was a little late. Good luck.

[scottyhoover]

TrailFndr I know you are all fired up this week, You need to go fishing man!!! see ya on the ice hopefully.

Slowpoke I sure hope we find 'em this time. And good luck to FlyGuy.

[TrailFndr]

Scotty, Yeah I know Bro...I AM planning to give it a go on Saturday, it all depends on the weather. It will be a one day trip, there and back , but I plan on hitting Lymans when they open at 7. Hope to meet up with ya there...

And your RIGHT..I NEED to go FISHING.....

[patcheroo]

I'm a deffinate probably too!....Patch

[ozzgood2001]

im 90% sure ill be there again!! looks like saturday right now

[UNCLE AL]

I'm still going to be on channel 8 on the ice, and I'm still going to use my Garmin 12 to navigate. Hope to see and hear all of you out there. I'll be on Houghton Lake (ice permitting) on the 27th and 28th.

[TrailFndr]

Uncle Al, By switching to Chanell 7, the guys with newer radio's, ( myself included) will be able to hear ya, If I go to 8 on my GMRS I must purchase a license and its not the same as your 8 on the FRS.

they are different frequencies...

[Big K]

Another family Christmas is scheduled. Tear 'em up guys. Catch a couple for me would ya?!?

[scottyhoover]

I will be out there Friday and Saturday, Channel 7-0 give me a shout. Should be on the ice early both days.

[UNCLE AL]

OK Channel 7-0 it is. I'll be out on Houghton Lake on Satruday and Sunday, and maybe Monday weather permitting.

[TrailFndr]

Not gonna make it guys....got a bad chest cold to get over. maybe one day during the next week....

hope ya get on them

[slowpoke]

Can't make it. Good luck to you all. I think I will be up there next week-end. There is no safe ice down here that I know of.

[patcheroo]

Who's going? What time and where? South boat launch? Does anyone know how much snow is on the ice? Need to know which shanty to bring.....Patch

[ozzgood2001]

scottyhoover is already there. msuiceman my father and i will be there sat. morning around 7 or so AJPeacock should be there about the same time

[patcheroo]

Glad to here that scotty is already there. Maybe he will have some tied up for us when we get there LOL!!......Patch

[Wishn I was fishn]

I'm gonna try and make it up tomorrow morning where will every one be I dont have a radio. So i'll just have to hope to find ya.

[patcheroo]

I believe that we are meeting at the south shore DNR launch at about 7 am. I will be in a black over silver GMC 1500 4by4 with a black topper. Not sure where we are fishing probably straight out from the launch. I have a yellow Frabill sled with a black wind break around it....Patch

[Wishn I was fishn]

Great I'll be there. Ill be in the pewter (beige) 4x4 S-10. With a black Frabill on man Shanty.

[UNCLE AL]

Can't make it either, outlaws decided to make an unexpected visit on their way to Florida. How nice. Maybe Monday. Good Luck, and have fun.

[Wishn I was fishn]

Had a great time. It was good to meet a few more friendly faces from the site. Although the fishing could stand to be a little better.:( Congrats on getting your pike harness back MSUICEMAN That was too funny.:D

[ozzgood2001]

ozzgood
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wishn i was fishn
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msuiceman
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scottyhoover
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steven arend
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one gill lots of pike pretty much sums it up!! had a blast!!! sorry adjusted, patcheroo, AJPeacock didnt get no pics of ya and good to meet you bigshooter. hey burksee how did you end up doing?
:D :D

[patcheroo]

One Bluegill between 8 or 9 guys really stunk! But the action was GREAT! I almost wanted to salute because I thought it was Flag Day. At one time we got 5 or 6 flags in 5 minutes. I think that we must have got 20 to 25 Pike maybe more, I think we all lost count. No keepers! Scotty , AJ and I did our best to find the gills to no avail. Sorry about the pics guys I still have to learn how to set-up this new camera. I see I have to change the time too.
Wishin I was Fishin
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Stave Arend
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Adjusted
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MSUICEMAN giving Wishin I was Fishin a hand
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The " Safety Meeting " LOL!
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/4837Safety_Meeting-med.jpg?1857
And a great sunset
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/4837Sunset_over_HL-med.jpg?8980
It was a great day on the ice with good company, lots of laughs too. I wish Adjusted would have checked that flag. Lets do it again guys!.....Patch

[Doughboy]

Hey Patch is that a picture taken out from south launch with the beautiful sunset? If it is more details later. Doughboy

[patcheroo]

Yes, I was on my way off last night, going back to the south boat launch, when I snapped the pic....Patch

[Wishn I was fishn]

Hey Patch it looks like you got that camera figured out by the end of the day. Awesome pic of the sunset. It looks like you have the time set to the wrong side noon. I know I was there early but I'm pretty sure I wasnt at 2 in the AM:D

[TrailFndr]

How much Ice is on Houghton? I may go up one day during the week since I was sick for the weekend...

[patcheroo]

We didn't measure it but I would say a good 6". There were quads driving all over it, wish I had one.....Patch

[Jigster]

I must say I was very impressed at the sportsmanship of our fine member Doughboy! It was Sat, 27 at the south DNR Houghton lake. Arrived at noon and joined the pack o fisherman. Lines in
at 12:30. Doughboy stops by around 2pm and shoots the bull.
This is the first time I have met anybody from this forum on the ice. 4pm and still nothin but a lost at the hole pike. 4:30 and
I hear someone wispering at the shanty "hey Jigster, pack up and move back in around 100yds, were killin the gills"! In less than 5min we were set up and catchen nice gills. All in all 8 nice gills\sunfish were on the ice as we were headen back to the launch. THANKS Doughboy, There ain't many like ya around these days!! Now thats a REAL sportsman!! I'll pass it on the same way if I get the chance!

Jigster

[MSUICEMAN]

once again, i had a great time meeting more members of the site.... looks like we were in the wrong spot for gills, but the many many flags kept us all busy and pretty content. Couldn't believe not one keeper in the bunch, mostly just really snaky fish. Nice meeting everyone, we'll have do some more ice fishin this year together....

Anyone can get a pike to hit a shiner.... its darn hard to get a quickstrike rig inside a pike's mouth to hit a shiner :D

steve

[Doughboy]

Jigster thanks for the praise but that's what makes this site special (especially the ice forum). I wished I could've stayed out by ya an shot the bull more as we had a lot of laughs but the lack of fish set me in motion(by the way thanks for all the lowdown on the Hi-Tech). Fished Albight Shores in the morning with little success so on to Houghton as I read where some from the site were headed(forgot my radio). You were in the right area but just not that day. Hey Patch that picture was where the action was, starting about 4pm. The second shanty was Jigster with me right by him. Took home 24- (7 1/2"- 9 1/2").

[AJ Peacock]

Hey guys,

Even though I only caught 7 small perch, I really had a great
time on my first MS outing, thanks. You guys are great,
I look forward to doing it again! (if we ever get enough ice!)

Scotty, get yourself some ice cleats, you'll spill less coffee that way ;)

Later,

[patcheroo]

You probably won't remember, you were busy catching, but I came by just before dark pulling a yellow sled with my Jiffy on top. I stopped for a second and watched a few people in that general area pull a few up and thought about coming in and punching a hole but decided that would not be " Sportsman-like " so I just tucked my tail between my legs and kept walking. LOL!! I'm glad you guys did well. Maybe next time I'll get on them......Patch

[Doughboy]

Yup I remembered the yellow sled and that was what I was looking for when I got up there. Had no radio but glassed the area for your sled but couldn't locate it so I thought you had gone in or was fishing somewhere else. That was about the end of the bite when you came by.

[TrailFndr]

WHats the best area to land some gills and specks up there....Thinking about going out during the week, will be afoot from the south launch....how far out do I need to walk to hit them??

[scottyhoover]

Lee we had 3 guys with vexilars running all around that lake, punching 100 holes and we still did not locate any gills from the south launch. Having said that I do have the numbers to where we were sitting on this little weed bed about 1/4 mile from the launch in 8ft of water. Those other guys with the nice pictures of specks and gills are fishing somewhere else and they arent saying where. Only other thing I can tell ya is some people were pulling a few gills right at dark in 5fow much closer to the launch than we were fishing. Of course we were leaving the ice when we found that out. Check ya PMs later when I go get my gps out. I might want to go up too, if they say the ice is still good there.

[scottyhoover]

I forgot to post about the outing.....great times, lots of laughs, I met a lot of nice people this weekend.

Everyone knows my tendency to fall down on concrete first thing in the morning. I can't beleive we got the shaft on the bluegill situation when people just 300 yds from us were getting them.

AJ, patch, wishin, everyone else, it was a good time hope to do it again soon.

[garyrodbender]

This is 2 weekends in a row I missed you guys. Couldnt make it saturday,so made the road trip sunday. It was raining all morning `til the sun came up.The `gills and specks were not found , and we (mountainman and myself) must have made 100 holes and walked 5 miles. In the area of the south boat launch.We were the 2 guys pulling the rover and ultra-lite.Pike,Pike.and more Pike.Glad to here some from this site did fill a bucket or 2.Catching pike on my ul-rod is alot of fun,managed to catch 5 gators with know bite-offs. Way to go you guys,you put a hurting on those panfish.Looks like colder weather this week, maybe see ya out there!!!

[slowpoke]

Grayrodbender; How hard is it to pull that sled with the Clam on top by hand that I got from you? I am thinking on taking it up to Houghton Lake this weekend and see how it works. If it works good I will put my old fish trap 2 up for sale. I would like a little more ice before I take my ATV. If you are going to Houghton look for me at the south DNR boat ramp, radio will be on ch 7. I might be there Fri.

[garyrodbender]

Slowpoke, how`ve you been? I could pull that rig ok as long as there wasnt much snow.I threw all my gear in the jetsled strapped down the 5600 and went.I always liked when we had enough ice for the quad to do the work. Sir I plan on making it down to Houghton lake this week, than agian on the week-end.Hopfully we can burn some fuel in our quads! Got any pics of your fishtrap2 ? PM me some info,may be interested for a friend.Thanks.Talk later to ya.

[Steven Arend]

Thank for a great time guys. It was nice meeting all of you. Sorry we had to show you guys how to catch all of those small pike.:D Adjusted and I finally got back home (Down here in our little corner of Michigan) around 11:00 pm last night. We end up going over to Cadilac and fishing there Sunday. Nothing but small perch. It looked like our weekend was nothing but small fish, but we had a great time.

We should set up an outting down here WHEN or IF we got ice down here.

[slowpoke]

Grayrodbender; I don't think I can go to Houghton this week-end [long story]. I'm still trying tho. Fish trap two is old but still does the job. I've had to repair it a few times. It's up north and I'm down here so I can't get you a picture. I need to try out the clam first to see if it's going to replace my trap. Like to burn some gas on our quads with you this winter. There is a lake north of Grayling that I went to a long time ago that has some nice pan fish in it, maybe we could go there. cya.

[Burksee]

I missed out on the get together. Worked around the cottage and went for a short spin on the sleds. I didnt get on the ice until about 4pm on Saturday. I talked to AJ on the radio but that was about it. Didnt do worth a hoot. I got on the ice at the DNR launch but went west toward the ELKS club in about 6-8 foot of water. Didnt get into any gills, got a couple of hammer handles, no perch or crappie. Stayed out til 7pm, hoping for some crappie or "eye" action after dark but it didnt happen. When I got off the ice I was the last truckn in the parking lot! Sounds like a few did ok, more get togethers are in order!

[RJF]

Driving up Friday morning, I think. The afternoon/evening Walleye bite sounds like a winner.