For a Walk

Last night about an hour before sunset I decided to go for a walk on the ice, cause there was a guy out fishing in our bay out of his car. I got to within about 150 yards only to see his tail lights come on and him drive away. Ohh well, kind of makes you wonder if he was doing something he shouldn't and was getting out of dodge. I proceeded to walk just a bit farther to where he had been fishing 1st before he moved out to the spot where he left from; This spot I fished a couple of days ago without much success other than perch and a little pike. He had left about 6 little perch to die on the ice. The biggest one was moving, so I put him in the hole and it swam away. As it so happened all of them where alive enough to swim off as soon as they went in the hole.

I then proceeded to walk out to "the hole" because their were about 6 trucks out there. One of the guys had caught and released a dogfish just a few minutes before I got there. Everybody was getting a few crappies but nothing real big and the action was sporatic to slow and got worse as the sun set. Met some interesting fellows one familiar, the other not. One of the old timers told me about "Swede Lewis" who used to live on the property we do now. He said that his mother told him "the old farm house" was the place you could get some moonshine back in the prohibition days. The "old farm house," as we call it, sits right behind the current house and is the orginal dewelling place on the property; that two story house is around a century old and may be older and is still in pretty good shape. A little renovation and it would be quite liveable.

Anyway, it was a gorgeous night and sunset over the Island. Spring is coming slow, but it's coming. I am hoping for some open catching by the 15th of April at the latest, should have some open water fishing available very soon. Ice should be vehicle safe through this weekend, but a warming trend and rain are threatening to put the kybosh on that by early next week.