Hardwater Northern Angling.....aka Ice Fishing Pike!

Here are a few pics from some of our catches this past winter....

 

Boy how I miss the old days Hard Water fishing on Canandaigua (NY) Lake for Lakers !

 

A few more....

 

Any Crappies in that lake?

 

No just northern pike. They stocked it with walleye back in the 90's but you can't find one. I think they had very marginal if any spawning habitat and with it being hard to access the past 20 years due to a bridge out on the logging road into it the pike population exploded and created a lake full of above average size pike. You can see a long ways on an aqua-vu camera it's such clear water and I've never yet seen any kind of fish but pike. You also do not catch many small pike. Most are over 5lbs. I think they have eaten all the walleye and now cannibalize each other. They will eye a spoon tipped with a minnow with caution but put a piece of pike belly or skin on it and they absolutely smash it.

 

Nice catch.