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03-02-2022, 05:23 PM
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Spring is coming, getting twitchy
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03-02-2022, 05:27 PM
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I have seen that video it looks like a blast
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03-02-2022, 08:11 PM
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Settle down. The best month of the year for ice fishing just started yesterday. 
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03-02-2022, 08:14 PM
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^^^ Yup.
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03-02-2022, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by AlbertanGP
Settle down. The best month of the year for ice fishing just started yesterday. |
Boo ice fishing 
Bring on open water
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03-02-2022, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Boo ice fishing
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Lol oh come on now no need to be like that, ice fishing is for the hardier types for sure but we all enjoy open water when it comes.
Cool video top water pike are a lot of fun.
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03-02-2022, 09:14 PM
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You beat me by a day or two. Twitchy myself! Sent a couple open water pics today.
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03-02-2022, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by OL_JR
Lol oh come on now no need to be like that, ice fishing is for the hardier types for sure but we all enjoy open water when it comes.
Cool video top water pike are a lot of fun.
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I was catching pike ice fishing this morning and it’s just not the same. It’s just enough to keep my sanity till real fishing starts
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03-02-2022, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by AlbertanGP
Settle down. The best month of the year for ice fishing just started yesterday. |
I'm not ready for open water. I don't want ice fishing to end
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03-03-2022, 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by AlbertanGP
Settle down. The best month of the year for ice fishing just started yesterday. |
Ya it’s march madness around here....but my thoughts are drifting already 
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03-03-2022, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Boo ice fishing
Bring on open water |
There has to be a place where we can do it all 
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03-03-2022, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by pikergolf
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Just look at that glassy watered peace & solitude!!
Such a Beaut video..the very reasons I shall never disclose my fishing holes, lol!
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03-03-2022, 12:41 PM
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I gotta get one of those duck lures!
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03-03-2022, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Lambo
I gotta get one of those duck lures!
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Get a whopper plopper instead and thank me later
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03-03-2022, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Get a whopper plopper instead and thank me later |
Never heard of this lure until my wife snagged a fishing line while walleye fishing and at the end of it was this so called whopper popper. Never seen this lure before so googled it and yup it catches pike!
Funny is that same area I snagged a rod there too gonna go back this spring and see if I can snag more gear. Lol 
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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03-04-2022, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Get a whopper plopper instead and thank me later |
I have poppers and woodchoppers but will definitely add the whopper plopper to my arsenal! I love top water fishing in the spring! Thanks!
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03-04-2022, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 58thecat
Never heard of this lure until my wife snagged a fishing line while walleye fishing and at the end of it was this so called whopper popper. Never seen this lure before so googled it and yup it catches pike!
Funny is that same area I snagged a rod there too gonna go back this spring and see if I can snag more gear. Lol
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Just gonna ask if the area you fish is open to catch and keep one? Wish I was still in the SIOUX LOOKOUT
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03-04-2022, 07:17 PM
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Pretty cool video. Got to love top water catches. I love when a bass comes out of the Lilly pads to grab a frog bait skipping along as well
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03-04-2022, 07:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambo
I have poppers and woodchoppers but will definitely add the whopper plopper to my arsenal! I love top water fishing in the spring! Thanks!
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I have had luck on a large variety of top water lures but I mostly build my own lures
Pike also like crawlers(jitter bug style)surface gliders(spook), wake baits, and prop style lures. Another is floating soft plastics rigged weedless
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03-05-2022, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by barbless
Just gonna ask if the area you fish is open to catch and keep one? Wish I was still in the SIOUX LOOKOUT
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Draw/tag on Ethel lake which has huge eyes, Marie ya can keep and cold lake too 
https://albertaregulations.ca/fishingregs/NB1-Lakes.pdf
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