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Crushed it with my boys #9181185 02/04/25 03:51 AM
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Friday afternoon myself, my son, my son-in-law and my nephew headed up to the cottage to fish Nip on Saturday and Sunday. My son and I fish Nip on the regular but my son-in-law has never fished Nip or ever been ice fishing. My nephew is not new to ice fishing but is new to Nip.

Both days we headed 10 km offshore to the Manitous. Saturday was sunny and calm but cold at -22. Sunday was windy, overcast and snowing with temps of -14. Ice thickness was 18+ inches of hard black ice - no white. Our setup:

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Pop up is an Eskimo Outbreak 650i XD and has enough room for 4 guys to fish comfortably. The bite both days was great and we caught a crap ton of perch, walleye, pike, cisco and believe it or not i caught a clam. The perch we kept were all between 9 and 13 1/8 inches. Some typical fish from the weekend:

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Son-in-law's first ever fish thru the ice:

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Typical pike:

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Cisco:

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Walleye:

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The clam:

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The 2 day Manitous haul. From left to right myself, nephew, son, and son-in-law with our haul:

117 Jumbo perch kept (9 to 13 1/8 inch) , 8 eyes (slot limit), 1 pike kept (22 inch) , 1 cisco kept (15 inch), about a dozen eyes put back and some perch put back as well (didn't really keep count of those). The fish we kept filled 2x 5 gallon pails. Burned thru 12 dozen minnows:

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Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181227 02/04/25 10:32 AM
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Fantastic! Congratulations to all y’all


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Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181231 02/04/25 11:58 AM
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Wow.....looks like a great trip!!!


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Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181234 02/04/25 12:07 PM
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Looks like a glorious time! As always, thanks for sharing. cheers


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Were any of you guys extras in the movie, Dreamcatcher?

Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181241 02/04/25 12:38 PM
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Congrats cheers

Obviously one of those great trips where everyone catches a lot of fish, had a lot of fun doing it and our now more eager to join in on the next one.
144 minnows caught 127 fish that you kept, plus all of the fish y'all threw back pretty much sums up on how good the fish were biting.


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Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181359 02/04/25 04:18 PM
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looks very cold for us Texas boys

Re: Crushed it with my boys [Re: Hirogen] #9181412 02/04/25 05:22 PM
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I’d say yall did good

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I’d say yall did good

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Nice pile of fish. But probably not the place for me. I hate when it gets below 50F.

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