Ice Fishing 2014-2015 Season

[Madd Matt]

I would love to meet up with some walleye.com members to do some ice fishing this year. I have my own gear for the most part. I am trying to figure out how to buy a new auger without telling my wife.

I just got two new flashers in the mail today, and I got a new Eskimo QuickFlip II Inferno in August.

I have some lodging available this Winter too. Nothing fancy, but we have a cottage at Lakeside. It isn't the Holiday Inn, but it has a full kitchen and laundry room and 4 bedrooms. I am not "technically" supposed to rent it out by the night because I don't have it set up as business... But if I let some "friends" stay there and those "friends" happen to give me a "tip" and help out with utilities all on their own..... you get the idea.

I would guess that hypothetically each bedroom uses about $75/night per bedroom... maybe less if someone was needing all the bedrooms. That is just a guess, but I'd say its a good one.

This is not really an advertisement for my cottage. I truly do want to get some guys communicating and talking about ice fishing this year, and I would love to meet up.

I use Motorola talk about radios up there and we will be using channel "3."

If anyone is planning on going ice fishing, or wants to start planning, let's get some trips planned!!

My cell is:740-591-5507

-Matt Gaiser

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Ive never been but I have a boat dock on the western basin would love to go this year just need to go with someone with some knowledge. I stay in toledo

[troy1976]

count me in matt. i only been on lake once during the hard water season. would like to try some more

[fishin2]

I'm in, gonna be a big city if everyone that reads this joins in, nothing like a hot Italian sausage with kraut on the ice, biscuits and gravy not bad either !!Mike

[half pole]

I'm in also

[Firetiger]

count me in matt. i only been on lake once during the hard water season. would like to try some more

Troy was that you at the clelands with the clam in the back of the truck already?

[wayne johnson]

Yes it was troy, he was dropping off this new shantie to CAPT.. Mike this makes shantie No. 16 ready to go for this upcoming season, we also have seven sleds ready to taxi any one out again this season. Hopefully some one will top our first mate Mike king 15 lb walleye weight on a cert. scale, caught less than two miles off shore, with no one around us. Picture of this hog is on Reel Sport Charter LLC under ice fishing guide 2014.
Lets pray for ice.
Capt. Mike Reel Sport Charters, Your four season licensed guide
Reel Sport charters LLC
Reel Sport charters LLC _ Marblehead Ohio
419 265 2736

[Madd Matt]

Yes it was troy, he was dropping off this new shantie to CAPT.. Mike this makes shantie No. 16 ready to go for this upcoming season, we also have seven sleds ready to taxi any one out again this season. Hopefully some one will top our first mate Mike king 15 lb walleye weight on a cert. scale, caught less than two miles off shore, with no one around us. Picture of this hog is on Reel Sport Charter LLC under ice fishing guide 2014.
Lets pray for ice.
Capt. Mike Reel Sport Charters, Your four season licensed guide
Reel Sport charters LLC
Reel Sport charters LLC _ Marblehead Ohio
419 265 2736

15Lbs!!!! Oh my goodness! You didn't keep it did you? Just think of all those eggs and future walleye that you killed. How dare you catch such a big fat female fish? You should be banned from fishing walleye for the rest of your life.

There are an estimated 20-30 million walleye age 2 and older in the Lake. Taking into account that a 30" + walleye has less than 20% of her eggs fertile enough to produce fry, and that she probably has roughly 100,000 eggs, that would mean that 20,000 eggs are actually fertile in that fish. Then, approximately 20% of those will actually be fertilized by a male, that gives us about 4,000 eggs from that fish will hatch. COnsidering that about 1 in 10,000 hatched fry will survive to adulthood....

For every one of those fish that you keep, you are actually killing 4/10ths of another fish, or for every 4 of those that you keep you are actually killing an additional 1.6 future fish.

According to that math, if you limit in the Winter with all really big fat females (4 man limit) then you are doing less (killing 5.6 fish) to impact the walleye population than if you go out later in the year and catch 6 post spawn fish.

But wait, some of those 6 fish you catch later that aren't currently pregnant, would be pregnant later in the year, so it is the same as catching them with or without eggs then, right?

PS - Sorry, I couldn't resist... I figure someone is bound to bring this up sooner of later in an ice fishing forum. All tongue & cheek of course!

-Matt

[ICEFREAK89]

Are you ripping on the mike guy Because you are jealous of his fish....did you not know that lake Eire has the best walleye fishing in the world...wonder how that happens...not from guys keeping a once in life time fish QUIT HATING

[Madd Matt]

Looks like we have a good start on a walleye.com reunion. Now all we need is some ice!
The more the merrier! I hope we get some good ice again this year. Some reports say a really cold Winter again and some say mild.

Either way I'm sure that we will get on some ice at some point. Encourage others on here to start thinking about doing a trip or two.

-Matt