Crappie

Crappie

    Even though high pressure was moving in, here in North Idaho, we didn't get skunked.  This beauty was 12".

17" er

17"er

     Tom caught a nice 17" bass on a perch colored, Rapala, rattlin' rap, up here in North Idaho.  There's 11" of good ice.  We caught lots of nice red-ears and blue gills.

 

 

10 Inches

10 Inches

   10 inches of good ice, up here in northern Idaho an nw Montana.   The pike fishing is e extremely slow in Montana,  but the pan fishing is red hot in North Idaho.   Caught lots of 8 to 9 inch bluegills today.

Newbie

Newbie

    Tom showing the "ropes" to  a newbie.  Blue gill fishing, using an ultra-light, ice fishing pole, with Singer sewing thread, and a homemade blue gill jig.  Tom is showing the newbie the fish and jig on his MarCum, Showdowner fish finder.

 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

     Merry Christmas, from beautiful, North Idaho.

 

Brook Trout

Brook Trout

    Marie, caught a nice, 13" brook trout, up here at North Idaho.  The ice was 5" thick, on a small pink bluegill jig, using Singer sewing thread.

south

South

         Went fishing, south of Sandpoint.  4.5" of good ice and snowing.  We caught 57 panfish, made breakfast burritos on our little buddy heater, and 3" of snow when we were ready to go.