….last year!!!!!!!! This was on about 4-5″ of good ice 
This warm weather is killing me 
(this was the first or second week of December last year)
(never mind the date on the pic, operator error 
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Oh yeah that reminds me the Ice Fishing show is just around the corner 
Just for complaining,..you get the scowly walleye!
Followed by what I wish I was doing right now!!
Good things come to those who wait 
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….last year!!!!!!!! This was on about 4-5″ of good ice
(this was the first or second week of December last year)
(never mind the date on the pic, operator error
No Kidding. I shot my deer last year on Thanksgiving day. The next day I went out ice fishing (northern wi) on 4 inches of ice and hammered the Walleyes on tip-ups. I even caught a 30 inch Tiger Muskie that afternoon. I saved 2 weeks of vacation at work just so I could get in a bunch of early ice fishing this december. Looks like I won’t be getting out this year until January 2010.
I went on thanksgiving morning last year, but was only on 1-2″ If i remember right. Obviously that is not happening this year… All you guys posting this ice fishing stuff are making me nuts Just give it up until we actually have some good ice, my heart can’t take it anymore…
netmann those are some FAT walleye and a perch. Suprised you could coax them full bellied beasts into biting 
This is what I did 11-28-2008 
Crappies were on fire this afternoon
I couldn’t buy a bite this morning. I started using 1/4 oz jigs and 2″ grub bodies. Changing colors about every fifteen minutes and fishing at the mouth of a cove. Nobody in the area was catching much of anything. When moving over to a favorite submerged tree that I always fish when targeting crappie, I stopped to talk to another fisherman just as I stopped he caught an 8″ speck. With the jig sticking out of the crappies mouth I noticed he was using a white and blue tube. Now I know what color I am going to use well as close as I can get I put on a blue 1/4 oz jig and a 1 1/2″ white grub. But I still can’t get a bite. So I started looking through all of my plastics I have a 1″ blue tube with a black head, and a 1″ green tube with a purple head. And no tube jigs….wait a minute I have some H2O jigs.
Well I wasn’t on that tree 5 minutes with the blue tube and the green tube before I caught a 12” slab on the blue/black tube. Now I got them interested…yeah right, it was probably another hour before I got another bite, but this time it was on the green/purple tube and it is a solid 10” crappie. They continued to bite the rest of the afternoon, not as fast as I would like but I got my limit. I am color blind and my daughter says that the tube is violet not purple, I don’t really care. It caught 75 percent of the crappie this afternoon on it.
Hillsdale Lake
Water temperature 43
Cloudy
Light breeze
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