dk17hmr
02-18-2007, 10:40 PM
Here in MI the DNR lets you fish for free 2 weekends a year. This weekend happened to be one of them. I ussally buy a fishing licence every year so it doesnt make a difference to me. But my older brother Zac isnt much of an outdoorsman, he buys one deer tag and until this year he hasnt done anything but rifle hunt for his buck, (I got him bow hunting with me this past season), he doesnt small game hunt, and doesnt buy a fishing lisence.
Well we took advantage of the free fish weekend, got him up early this morning already had my truck packed with all my gear, shanty, auger, heater, fishing sticks, radio...ya'll know the important stuff. We stopped on the way to the bay, 5 miles from the house, and I bought minows at my normal bait shop, I handed the worker my bucket asked for 2 dozen perch minows and got 4 dozen for the same price.
We walked out about 3/4 of a mile, just off a shipping channel the and started chippin the ice away. I took my fire axe just because, it was a good thing too because we start drilling our holes and our auger went dull pretty quick. Took us an hour to get to the water and there ended up being 2 foot of ice.
Well we started catchin perch within 10 minutes after getting my shanty set up. What a mornign we didnt keep any but we caught better then 30 in the few hours we were on the ice. It was a good day.
Well we took advantage of the free fish weekend, got him up early this morning already had my truck packed with all my gear, shanty, auger, heater, fishing sticks, radio...ya'll know the important stuff. We stopped on the way to the bay, 5 miles from the house, and I bought minows at my normal bait shop, I handed the worker my bucket asked for 2 dozen perch minows and got 4 dozen for the same price.
We walked out about 3/4 of a mile, just off a shipping channel the and started chippin the ice away. I took my fire axe just because, it was a good thing too because we start drilling our holes and our auger went dull pretty quick. Took us an hour to get to the water and there ended up being 2 foot of ice.
Well we started catchin perch within 10 minutes after getting my shanty set up. What a mornign we didnt keep any but we caught better then 30 in the few hours we were on the ice. It was a good day.