Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and a Personal Best!!!

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Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and a Personal Best!!!

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Well originally today I was going to head to the Toronto Sportsman Show, but with a decent forecast and rain predicted later in the week.... I decided on Plan B to go ice fishing. So I meet up with @Chasenic in Ottawa shortly after 5 am and we were off.

Our target for the day was lake trout and after setting up on the side of a mid-lake hump we started marking a few lakers ,,,,,, but unfortunately no takers.... after no luck with the lakers.... we switched to Plan D .... rainbow smelt!!!

Well Chase definitely had the "hot stick" for landing some smelt..... I did get some fish including my PERSONAL BEST smelt. LOL It was my first smelt I have ever caught on a rod and reel.

After the smelt bite died off.... we moved shallow for Plan D..... perch.... and a little toothy critter.

This guy kept coming several times looking at my little perch jig....

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Chase did get him eventually.

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No big fish today.... but enough for a nice snack. lol I love smelt.

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We had the whole lake pretty much to ourselves.... covering about 10 miles on the ice with the help of the Taiga Dog and we fished 5 to 100 feet throughout the day,

Here is a shot of me with my new PB!!!

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Well tomorrow I am heading to the Toronto Sportsman Show for the day.

Tight Lines.
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Re: Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and a Personal Best!!!

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Nice report Jim as usual, just curious what do you use for bait to catch the smelt, thanks wally.
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