HOLY DIVER

Tried for lakers but struck out, bounced around from 70 - 12 FOW walked at least 4 miles and drilled solid 8 everywhere. Tough lake but buddy saved the day landing this rainbow

Yeah business is booming at the bait store, 5:30 was a line out the door. It's amazing the amount of people that enjoy the sport of sitting on ice. I was really expecting to pick thu perch all day and possibly get a walleye not how it worked out at all but could have been worse.

First trip to Oneida was a success landing my first ice walleye but definitely not on fire by any means, bounced around depths on the west side from dark to dark, managed 4 walleye and a few jumbos. Marks were few and far between with a lot of lookers and light bites that drop easy. All fish came off a small perch color spoon with a whole fathead in 23fow . Tried buckeye, minnow heads , jigging raps just never got anything to produce an aggressive bite, most fish seemed to take off running at the sight of my presentation. It was zoo out the with tents as far as the eye can see in every direction.

Hunting - I gave my 18yo nephew a full partnership deal this year at my place giving him access to all the cell cams and stands, he spent every minute he could in the woods while working full time, he harvested his first bow deer (doe) while I was in the ground blind filming for him. That deer ment as much as a 20pt buck to us that october night! He put in his time and would passed several smaller bucks playing cat and mouse with shooter bucks appearing on cam opposite of where he sat often. It was down to his last bow hunt opportunity on a rainy Nov 10th Sunday evening, he climbed into the stand early and txt me at 4 that he was soaked to the bone - I said stick it out it's power hour and these deer have to move after the rain let's up, 4:30 my phone rings - "I juSt. sMokEd oNe!!!!" Smoke it he did ! A great shot on a great buck, His first bow buck and memories we will never forget! His father - my (brother and best friend) passed away a few years ago , to say this means a lot to me would be an understatement.

Sweet November!

Still got a few years left on this one .

We struggled with staying hooked up just like you mentioned , lost several after a few mins of fighting even after trying to set the hook harder! Landed my first jig king on a bass rod and plan on many more !

Came in at 36# Full moon night with a simple headlamp and my 30yo browning setup. Cheap fun!

Still a nice 5pt I guess 😪

Gambler, i too have witnessed this same phenomenon years ago. The buck was so aggressive and violent I was scared to get down I'd never seen anything like it and will never forget it!

As I read the tick comments .

Looks cold and crunchy

I have a friend that smokes himself silly before every hunt but he's not having much luck with it