Something to do once all the deer tags are filled during muzzle loader season first week of November
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Crummybun
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I found that ice fishing was the catalyst for the deep sickness I have. Once the obsession becomes 12 months a year there is no escape! Ben
Tell me about it! I found a bag of perch and a bag of pike in my freezer labeled "Feb 14/21 LPB"
No need to shut it down, just follow the fish. Good fishing in the Central Basin till the end of September pending weather. The issue later in, the season is finding good conditions to get out. As long as the Lake is ice free the west end will, produce fish all winter.
Josh
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Dmanwithnoname
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The key is getting out, but sometimes my marriage has more temperament than the weather after a season of ice fishing and trolling.
Couple months off early if could mean a bigger boat without those hefty divorce bills lol
Usually sept sucks for winds and especially rain but you trout guys live for that stuff right?
Are you even married bro??
Actually don’t even answer that I don’t want to know either way
Just clowning everyone should get out as much as possible all the time, you never know how many times we get to go around the sun.
Beer may have influenced this post but I mean every single word.
regards dman
@Extra Virgin were your perch & pike caught off St.WilliamsTell me about it! I found a bag of perch and a bag of pike in my freezer labeled "Feb 14/21 LPB"
back in February 14/21 by any chance?
and thanks in advance lol 
I will need to check in my freezer as well. 
Enjoy your fish fry. 
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I take a brief break from Erie when there is too much ice to boat out, but not enough to walk on
Late last year was good!! “EH” @Extra Virgin
Late last year was good!! “EH” @Extra Virgin
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The key is getting out, but sometimes my marriage has more temperament than the weather after a season of ice fishing and trolling.
and yes!! fishing for me only,(I don’t hunt), all year & waiting for cooler comfortable temperatures right now for some more Lake Erie walleye/rainbow fishing,before lake erie is over,and then steelhead fishing till the river’s freeze up,or close for the trout season,(whatever comes first),in the spot’s that I like to fish on. I hope to see you on the ice somewhere this winter with perhaps @Extra Virgin as well. 
Cheers!! Bro!!
A great post @Dmanwithnoname my friend!!Couple months off early if could mean a bigger boat without those hefty divorce bills lol
Usually sept sucks for winds and especially rain but you trout guys live for that stuff right?
Are you even married bro??
Actually don’t even answer that I don’t want to know either way
Just clowning everyone should get out as much as possible all the time, you never know how many times we get to go around the sun.
Beer may have influenced this post but I mean every single word.
regards dman
and yes!! fishing for me only,(I don’t hunt), all year & waiting for cooler comfortable temperatures right now for some more Lake Erie walleye/rainbow fishing,before lake erie is over,and then steelhead fishing till the river’s freeze up,or close for the trout season,(whatever comes first),in the spot’s that I like to fish on. I hope to see you on the ice somewhere this winter with perhaps @Extra Virgin as well. Cheers!! Bro!!
I take a brief break from Erie when there is too much ice to boat out, but not enough to walk on
Late last year was good!! “EH” @Extra Virgin
Sure was Red! I was wearing a poppy in that photo and the perch fishing just got better into December
Lachine60.1
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Thank You greatly appreciate it
Never. There is always ice fishing somewhere on the lake - especially Long Point Bay. Look up Woodwards Ice Huts.
Schmick
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So hoping Nanticoke turns on with some decent weather and fish to close the season. So close and yet so far away….
fishlessam
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Thanks, I’ll look into that, haven’t done any ice fishing in over 5 years
spincast
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I find each season is a little different, and its a matter of being able to get out there when the switch turns on for that 2 - 3 week period, as well as finding what they want on any given day / outing / season. I also thought the migrants arrived a couple weeks later than in previous years? - but maybe that was just me not finding the pods right away. Hopefully they hang around for the same length of time as in previous years, close to the end of September.
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jrr
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The weather forecast issues are way worse in September/October. Which I think is why people just go and do other things.
I do wonder about the water colour changing either from differently timed rain, higher water levels, air temps, wind, etc. This year would be different again because Lake Superior-Michigan-Huron water level dropped a lot but Erie only a little. Superior the most — St Mary’s rapids in the Soo has been pretty dry from what I hear. But the flow from Huron would for sure be different this year. The current in the lake would be effected.
I had a few years off but I have not seen huge perch in the Port Dover marina before. Never mind into July. You could see them from the dock. The patterns are different for sure. Spoons and higher speed? My dad might be right about j-plugs. He keeps telling me to throw one of the many old ones we have down and see.
I do wonder about the water colour changing either from differently timed rain, higher water levels, air temps, wind, etc. This year would be different again because Lake Superior-Michigan-Huron water level dropped a lot but Erie only a little. Superior the most — St Mary’s rapids in the Soo has been pretty dry from what I hear. But the flow from Huron would for sure be different this year. The current in the lake would be effected.
I had a few years off but I have not seen huge perch in the Port Dover marina before. Never mind into July. You could see them from the dock. The patterns are different for sure. Spoons and higher speed? My dad might be right about j-plugs. He keeps telling me to throw one of the many old ones we have down and see.
