Crushed it

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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Sounds like a great weekend out well done guys.

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Awesome trip Joe

Well done !! Another successful fishing trip with good planning. Congrats ..

Congrats to the group nice fish

Wow, that’s a mess of fish, congratulations and enjoy the feast!

Sounds like a great 2 days Joe

Looks like a great day of fishing, congrats

WTG guys awesome trip

Nice haul, and nice to see you spending quality time with family, congrats

Thanks guys.

Turns out the trip included a first for me. Finished cleaning the last of the haul this morning. One of the slot walleyes was tagged by MNRF:

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Filled out the report to MNRF online - pretty cool and if it helps manage things all the better.

youre living the dream! love it thx for sharing!

Very cool Joe

I would say you did good, Loblaws wants $79.34 a kg for some tiny Lake Perch Fillets and $50.68 for Pickerel per kg.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

I would say you did good, Loblaws wants $79.34 a kg for some tiny Lake Perch Fillets and $50.68 for Pickerel per kg.

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I had a hard time believing that so checked their website and you are correct - that's insane. According to Loblaws last night's dinner was fit for royalty:

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I checked this morning for that price, its pretty insane. They do not sell much at that price but dont mind demanding it.

Yeh you basically are in the Elon Musk elite to be eating perch.

Personally I catch them in the Spring but toss then back as they are to small to bother with. LOL

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

I checked this morning for that price, its pretty insane. They do not sell much at that price but dont mind demanding it.

Yeh you basically are in the Elon Musk elite to be eating perch.

Personally I catch them in the Spring but toss then back as they are to small to bother with. LOL

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We ended with just shy of 20 lbs of boneless skinless fillets.

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Originally Posted by Species8472

We ended with just shy of 20 lbs of boneless skinless fillets.

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$711.0 at Loblaw prices, covers the cost of the gas for sure.:goodstuff:

I use Robin Hood, Brodie self raising flour with a bit of beer for my bass batter.

Had a pop up on YouTube yesterday, “how to clean perch with an electric knife”. It was awesome, fast and I mean fast an easy… If you haven’t seen it, check it out….

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

$711.0 at Loblaw prices, covers the cost of the gas for sure.:goodstuff:

I use Robin Hood, Brodie self raising flour with a bit of beer for my bass batter.

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My wife makes the batter so don't know the specifics but know it involves flour, beer and spices.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

I checked this morning for that price, its pretty insane. They do not sell much at that price but dont mind demanding it.

Yeh you basically are in the Elon Musk elite to be eating perch.

Personally I catch them in the Spring but toss then back as they are to small to bother with. LOL

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Come on up for some perch where you want to fish how far you want to walk lol.. we like the whitefish here I keep very few perch. Get 12 pieces of fish off each whitefish the way I cut it up.


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Haven't been ice fishing for many years - for years down here there wasn't good enough ice to go fishing - this year it finally got cold enough to form safe ice - looking at your pictures made me think again about going fishing - you guys are lucky that you have so many opportunities to go fishing like that - and yes you are rewarded with some fine eating at the end - personally I will take perch ahead of a lot of other fish when eating is concerned - thanks for the pictures -

What a great weekend of ice fishing. Looks like everyone had a great time.