Ice Fishing

[line wetter]

most ice fishing in Missouri occurs at the freezer section in the grocery store.

[JimG]

I don't think I'd have enough confidence in the ice to walk out on any frozen Missouri lake, but if one did.... Where you would you fish at? Above brush piles, out on points, or just stop and cut a hole when you get tired of walking?

[will.isaac]

there was a small little park pond in KC area maybe three acres that they stocked with rainbow trout and people would ice fish it when it got really cold but I would not try it. most people would throw a cinder block tied to a rope from the bank to break it up and wait awhile and try to fish it threw the area they broke up enough with powerbait. I don't know if anyone ever fell threw trying to fish that place but I sure wouldn't walk on it or Stockton lake. I know people have done it before but not this guy.

[Skeeter ZX190]

I've ice fished several times in Kansas. Mostly at Council Grove. Next to the outlet structure along the dam. It is where the channel intersects with the dam. Crappie would stack up there about 17 feet deep. The water was actually 40 feet deep but the graph say 17 because the sonar beam couldn't get past the crappie.

[Skeeter ZX190]

Billy Bob and Schlem were from Arkansas and had never been ice fishing so they planned a trip to Minnesota. Schlem was an early riser so he got out there at first light. He would stand on the ice and cast his lure out on the ice and retrieve it. He did this for an hour and then Billy Bob pulled up on a snow mobile. He asked Schlem how it was going. Schlem said "not good. I've been fishing an hour and haven't gotten a bite. Billy Bob says "get on the back and lets try trolling".

[jlm7070]

trying to get out this weekend 1-11-14 does anyone know if any ramps are open

[blue79]

trying to get out this weekend 1-11-14 does anyone know if any ramps are open

The rain melted almost everything today.Im sure something is open.

[Haulin Bass]

I've done a lot of ice fishing in Wisconsin. Pulling a Norther Pike up thru the ice is QUITE THE RUSH! Caugh an eel looking fish called "Lawyers" up in Door County's Sturgeon Bay. Went Rainbow Trout Fishing in Green Bay! AND,,, I have gone Sturgeon Speaing in Lake Winnebago in January/February. (*I fell thru the ice screwing around and not being carefull too.) And i remember catching 40 or 50 Walleye in one day on a lake in Minnesota one winter too, even thought that was the best day of my life. (* But none of them were more than a foot long!)

until I moved here!

You know, the Blue Gills and Green Perch are the fish we went after up there, and they were much smaller than the fish you catch here in MO. There is no length limit on Crappie up there either, and I never remember catching any that were ever bigger than 6 or 8" long!

I don't miss ice fishing either, not at all. I missed getting drunk and hanging out in SHANTY-TOWNS.

But I don't rememeber catching anything like we catch here.

Hell no, you can have a bad day here, and pull in a 3 lb bass trolling on the way in, and still make dinner.

You need to fish all day, and catch 15/20 blue gill to equal one largemouth!

But fishing is fishing, if all you have is a frozen pond,,, then go fishing!

As for me, I'll wait until I can take my winter coat off and hit my favorite fishin' hole here in SW MO!

(* I still ain't found a better place to go fishin' in this great country than RIGHT HERE IN SW MO!)

We are spoiled rotten, and I'm loving every minute of it!

[Old plug]

I am of the school never trust it. These big ozark impoundments are full of springs. Will not really springs but moisture goes into. the ground and through pressure in cracks they call quaffers is force up somewhere else.that is why they want to get rid of septic systems around lakes. the sewage can travel for miles before it come up.they have proven this at Big Springs. Those quaffer springs come up in the lake and the water rises under the ice and makes a thin spot or actual hole. i just would bot trust any of it.