Come fish Bold Lake in NW Ontario... you'll have an action packed day!

I've got some new tubes from Drop Tine Tackle called Hunger Strike tubes. They have a longer single hook and a treble under the jig. Going to give this a go next time, I have used the stinger hook in the past like you said but these tubes I bought should get the job done. Cheers

Fingers crossed for this weekend. It is cold right now... need a couple more inches for ice to be safe.

@differentfins yeah, i been so busy with work and soccer i haven't even bothered, but i really want to go

I have two stocked lakes close to home, one splake and the other brook trout. I haven't tried to search for splake in Manitoba or Saskatchewan since I have them at home. I am still looking for my first brown trout! Didn't happen in Chocolate Lake lol

They are so much fun to catch and they get much bigger! I was finding all small ones this day, but good action

7000 fish every 2 years in this lake

Not yet, hopefully this weekend! This is my last ice fishing video from last winter so anything I post now will be new

For sure, I rarely target trout in open water. Winter season is trout season 100%. The colder the better!

Yeah buddy! No big ones but pretty much expecting a bite all day!

Haha most days is a good mix of jumbo perch and splake but this day was a solid east wind and I think the perch were just shut off.... trout obviously don't care about the weather, they were hungry!

70% of the time they are fun all the time lol. Our winter ice fishing season is tons of fun! Only thing that will keep me home is heavy winds and/or temperatures colder than -30 degrees.

Last lol, I checked a small lake here yesterday and we have 1.5" of ice. Crossing my fingers for next weekend!

@ im praying to the big man for lakers on new years!

@@rjracing12 News years day is laker opener, its pretty much tradition to target them January 1st! If I have to I will hit a smaller lake. I think we will have plenty of ice. Couple nights this week is hitting -20 degrees so ice will be forming!

@ I made er out to big Sandy last year for New Year’s Day!

@rjracing12 I didn't hit Big Sandy last winter. Hoping to this year!

In most situations I would agree with you but: 1. I am fishing in 4 feet of water, line twist isn't an issue. 2. Most of these fights are less than a few seconds, pulling drag is rare. 3. If the drag was any tighter the tiny hooks will just pop out, but if I waited until it was done running, it would have wrapped around several boulders and break off. This isn't big water fishing, rules do not apply to every situation.

@ Keep up the repetition like you should catching them and you’ll end up with the same result partner. Good try tho. Had the same smooth brain thought while fishing burbot during spawn in about 8 feet of water. Had the line snap on what probably would have been my pb. All cause I was too lazy to tighten my drag.

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Most of the trout I catch it's 3 seconds from hookset to being in the net. The little guys just fly out of the hole before I can grab the net lol

Really? On the Ontario side of the border?

@ yes, if you use the Fish On line website by the government of Ontario they show the stocking records on there

@willbatenchuk6171 I use Fish ON Line on a regular basis. It's a great tool. I have noticed inaccuracies but far and few between. I just having searched brown trout in NW Ontario for a while. I'll have to look again

No, I never have. The only lake in whiteshell I've fished is Lyons Lake. This spot in the video is Sioux Lookout Ontario on Lac Seul.

@differentfins so much fun catching ciscos, and for some reason, they are massive at Big whiteshell

@Jlams-j4d must have some really big pike in there as well. They get huge in this lake. Big ciscos equals big predators!

Yes there is a pocket inside for the reel

Thanks! Bass were introduced here decades ago and now our lakes are absolutely polluted with them. I used to catch bigger ones more often, these days it's nothing to catch 100+ bass in a day but the size seems smaller. I think overpopulation stunted their growth. I'll be camping in this area again in May... can't wait! Cheers!

Hey Eric! How are things down in Ely? We're you able to get out much this year? I remember you had some back issues or something.

They don't get much bigger than that in our lakes. Not sure why jumbo are so hard to find in NW Ontario

@ it’s super hard to find perch here in southern Alberta of any size bigger than 5-6” lol

@@FishBigAlberta lol that is most lakes here as well.

Yeah it is a lil musky

100% a pike. No muskie live that far north. Also I just know it's a pike 😉

I've eaten sucker once, it was from a river and to me tasted very muddy but that could be the water that made it taste that way. Funny you said poor man crab because we call burbot poor man's lobster haha.

Well here is Chocolate Lake video, remember we were talking about it last winter...

Someday, I hope. I just have to travel quite a long way to find them. Thanks for watching Larry!

They do like deadbait, and live bait and pretty much any lure. If you find them they are aggressive and hungry!

Oh brother it was a great action day, just wasn't the target species.

Come to Canada. They are our version of bluegill lol, they are everywhere!

The bait I use is very similar sized as an Atomic Teaser but with more flavor. Those 1" Berkley Gulp minnows catch everything! I've caught tiny sunfish on them all the way up to a 40" pike lol.

Nah nah this was from March last year. Our smaller lakes just froze over last 2 days. Not enough to stand on yet.

@differentfins ok wow i was about to claim fake news lol

@SunfishKing lmao!

So many stories I've heard about this lake, I just had to try it myself to see what was going on. Funny I didn't catch any larger pike, the ones in the video would be a little small to eat some brown trout.

Yeah buddy, can't wait to try this spot again for these beauts!

@differentfins and give me a WOOOOOFISHING on thr video when you do 🤘🤘

Haha that's funny. It is amazing but takes some getting used to. When I first started doing this I would get vertigo looking down the hole LOL

Haha suckers are pretty fish lol. If I didn't have any ciscos I would use suckers as laker bait... next best!

@differentfins yeeee, best laker baaait

Not all laws are justified. Of course keeping a fish caught that won't survive is the most ethical option. On the other hand, laws are in place because there are people who ruin a good thing. We know, even if there was a stipulation saying mortally wounded fish should be kept, that some poachers would keep all their big fish and simply lie and say it was mortally wounded if stopped by a game warden. Dumb laws are in place because we have to live with bad apples.

I am still chasing brown trout for my life list, would love to get some. Where I live all we have is brook trout. I find rainbows and Tigers when I visit my wife's family in Manitoba. They have an exceptional stocking program.

@@differentfins So they breed browns and brooks to get tiger trout but they only stock the brooks and tigers?

@48Priime they do stock browns in Manitoba, just nowhere near where I fish. I need to travel a bit more to find them.

​@differentfins we have some lakes out here in CO that hold Brown,Cutthroat,Rainbow,Brookie,Splake,and some native species of trout to CO all in the same body of water some grow trophy size. There's more species of trout we have out here as well those are the more popular ones tho.

Yup, I do this most of the time I am fishing and planning on releasing them. Fish spend less time out of the water for a healthier release 😉