Who's fishin Fairhaven 1/10/04????

[ice fishin nut]

Dz is coming over and were heading out by the Raft...... Who else is heading out tomorrow???? We will be monitioring channel 7, give us a shout!!!!

[mack300]

Plan on fishing somewhere. Either there or Metro. Going to get my minnows and gear tonight. Have a feeling the morning at the bait stores is going to be a little crazy.

[WALLEYE MIKE]

I'll probably be there on Monday the 12th. Too crowded on the weekend.

[bounty hunter]

I will be sitting here at work from 5:30 to 2:30 monitoring all the reports then heading out for the evening bite (I hope). Next weekend Mitchels bay or St. Lukes..;)

[Iceman1]

Did any of you fish there yesterday, I understand they did well early, what is the water color like over there, metro,candles,really dirty.

[kbkrause]

I plan on being over that way with Buddhabelly and Melon. We'll have our radio's on.

[Steely-Head]

Since it will be my last Saturday home I really should try to make it out, but I will try for the afternoon bite. What's the ticket out there? Minnows? Spoons? Jigging Raps? I have them all, and will experiment, but any info would be appreciated. I usually just fish perch with minnows but maybe the bite is on something else. Mike, how long do you plan on staying out there?

[salmonslammer]

They will all work out there....Depends what they want to hit on any given day. I'll be out on Tuesday for sure and maybe on monday. I have 4 days off next week:D

[gsepan]

I'll be out and monitoring 7 but for some reason my Midland Radios will not work with other brands channel 7 frequencies. I'll be on 1 so someone give me a shout if you lay into them... I'll be out in front of the grass island by the Raft... Look for the Frabil ultra-lite solo and I'll be under it.

Tight-Lines Gentlemen!!!

[Prime Time]

I was out at Bud's yesterday and managed a couple. I did talk to one guy who got his limit early. Once the sun disappeared the fish did too. Today we fished metro and managed a about 15 but all dinks.

[JasonG]

The grass island behind the Raft is already Shanty city. I saw about ten out there all bunched up together. Are they all fishing there or are they just parking their shanties there and moving them when they come out fishing.???

[WALLEYE MIKE]

First ice there is good for pike spearing.

[TrailFndr]

Ok...I am new to LSC...Where in heck is this "RAFT" that IFN is talking about?

[GGMshanties]

The Raft is located on M-29 up past fairhaven, across from the St. John's Marshland.

[GGMshanties]

And by the way it's a resteruant. Home of the raft burger.

[bounty hunter]

they will be needing a raft burger when there done freezing there you know what off today..WOW is it cold.

[Connor4501]

Yeah Bounty Hunter, I was thinking the same thing. That's why I'm waiting till tomorrow and 30 degree temps to try it...:)

[ice fishin nut]

It was'nt that cold!!!! After you got in the shanty that is!!!!:D

The fish sure didnt co-operate like I thought they would though!!!!:(

[WALLEYE MIKE]

So Mike lets hear a full report. How did you do? Or how did anybody do.

[ice fishin nut]

I was able to decoy quite a few fish in the hole, but they werent biting..... I think DZ, and his brother in law Mark took home 17 decent fish, we had quite a few throwbacks. Mark did catch 1 big one though....... Tried throwing the spear a few times, missed.... The holes in the shanty were too small for spearing.

[gsepan]

Saw IFN, JeffK, Treeman, Dz's Taxi and his buddy on the pond yesterday. Fishing was slow... Had 1 productive school come through and picked 6 up with some fish on a bare teardrop. Caught a few fish on a Ken's hook and had 1 fat 12" female come in and rail my wiggler on the drop... Smacked it and took my wiggler and then came back and inhaled my teardrop... That was Kick-*****!!! Saw over 100 and only managed 14 (15 if you count Jeff's sole fish of the day) for a half a day on the lake. Nursing a sore back (I got to get shorter rods) from leaning over the holes but a belly full of fried Perch fillets were the cure.:D

[kbkrause]

Me, Melon and Buddhabelly were out there. Set up shop near IFN when we got out there. Caught prob a doz and a half with not many keepers. Bunch of small ones kept on comming up and checking out our baits. A LARGE pike hit Melon's rod, but it was one of those will the plastic spool and it ran out all his line, oh well, fun while it lasted. We were ready with the gaff. :) All my fish were caught on jigs from ficious.

It was nice to be on LSC again ice fishing.

[jstfish48162]

does anyone have a picture of the "ficious" jig?

never hurts to have 1 more in the box.

[kbkrause]

ficious is a member. If you join the jig swap (http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55552) you'll get one:D He makes some quality jigs.

:)

[northern_outdoorsman]

does anyone have a picture of the "ficious" jig?

PM him or join the jig swap! We don't wanna post the pic and have everyone usng them, then they won't work anymore!:p

Harry (ficious) works with me and he makes some awesome hand-painted jigs. They are killer for ice fishing! :cool:

[COHO]

Originally posted by northern_outdoorsman
[B]PM him or join the jig swap! We don't wanna post the pic and have everyone usng them, then they won't work anymore!:p

[QUOTE]P.M. him or join the swap! We don't wanna post the pic and have everyone using them, then they won't work anymore!!!!! i thought this site was set up to help your fellow ice fishermen:confused: :confused: but i guess if your not i the inner circle its just another site to kill time reading all the b.s. i guess all the orange teardrop lures don't work anymore cause everyone has one:confused:: and the fish just won't bite um anymore:rolleyes:

[northern_outdoorsman]

You have got to remember that not only our members can view this site...besides if you PM ficious or even do a search in the photo gallery you can find out what they look like...man some people are way too touchy

[COHO]

i'm sorry your right, about other people viewing. had one too many drinks last night and just got in a bad mood, guess i should'nt post when i'm drinkin-my bad:o :o