Been a few years since the last report but I've been busy so I haven't had much time to fish let alone write up a report.
Saturday I finally got the chance to hit one of my go-to fishing lakes over here on the QC side. I've been fishing this lake since I was 5 years old and it's just great to be able to still fish it from time to time.
Anyways, my buddy Chris and I made it to the lake and trekked through 18 of hard-crusted snow for 20 minutes to get to our spor and we got to work. Eight 8" holes were drilled in 3 fow to 20 fow. All setups were flags equiped with our homemade quickstrike rigs. Bait of choice was 6 inch headless hearring bought from my local IGA for 1.84$ for about 20 of them. BARGAIN!
After drilling our holes, we set up about 70 yrds away for some smallies. First hole, we were on them.
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My turn...
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An hour goes by and we are still slaying em! RELEASE THE BEAST!!!
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We take a break and do some scouting but no luck... So we keep venturing further when suddenly there's a FLAG ON THE PLAY!!!
We run, from a long ways out (you'll hear me huffing and puffing in the video), and I just hope that when I get there I'm not spooled out. We get to the hole to see the tip-up spinning like crazy so I set it aside and set the hook. I'll let the pics speak for themselves.
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My smile said it all. My new PB Northern Pike measuring 40.5" so roughly weighing 17-18 pounds. She was safely released after we took the pics.
What an awesome day. I'll leave you with the short video. Enjoy!!!