Lady Nip Delivers

[Species8472]

So Wednesday the 10th I headed up to our place for a planned 2 day fishing trip on Nipissing. Ice formation has definitely been an issue this season but reports from Callander Bay were consistently showing 6 to 8 inches of black ice. Callander is not my usual go to on Nip as i typically get on at Fish Bay and hit the west side of South Bay and the south shore west of there. Well as little as 3 days ago Fish Bay still had pockets of open water so my typical go to was a non-starter.

Thursday morning i headed out around 7 am. This was the temp about 5 minutes out from Centennial Park in Callander:



Grabbed the auger and set out on foot to do my own due diligence on ice conditions. Popped a number of holes and thickness ranged from 6.75 to 8 inches of clear solid black ice. Based on that decided to sled it. Pic of a hole in the pop-up showing ice colour:



Sled unloaded and all set up:



Fishing was never hot or cold per say even at first and last light. It was just steady all day with a fish every 30 or 45 minutes. Ended the day with 12 walleye and 2 perch. Managed my 2 fish in the slot for the walleye and both perch came home as well - they were right around 10 inches:



Ten of the walleye were between 13 to 15 inches with this being typical:



Most of the walleye were actually caught on the Jaw Jacker which was tipped with a 1/4 oz jig head and shiner. The two keepers though were landed on a Buckshot Rattle spoon tipped with a shiner:

17 inch keeper:



16 inch keeper:



The original plan had been to head out again today but alarm went off this morning and i decided to grab another hour of sleep, eat a monster hot breakfast and then do chores around the cottage until about 230 pm leaving me just enough time to make it back home before the storm hit. Was a great 2 days - caught a whack of fish and got a whack of firewood moved.

[Birdbuff]

Glad you had an awesome trip. I would gladly take consistency over just a morning/night bite. No herring? Those buggers were always cruising in decent schools.

[Species8472]

No herring? Those buggers were always cruising in decent schools.

Not a one.

[TroutSlayer]

Very nice report! Congrats on your catch.

[kokes]

awesome job species!

[huntnmachine]

Great trip and report Joe....thanks for sharing

[Species8472]

Great trip and report Joe....thanks for sharing

Thanks Terry. You and your crew heading up to Nip this season? We are long overdue for a bevvy or 2 on the ice.

[tom gobble]

Congrats on some nice eaters

[fishfood]

Nice work enjoy the good eats.

Pretty sure I'll be ice fishing Thursday for perch on cooch. Then possibly a northern lake the following Thursday for Lakers and whitties.

Saw an article that a hut went through on Callender yesterday afternoon . Might of been a bungalow but it did have good ice under it. . They blamed the snow load I think lol.

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