Early Season Info Needed Mr. Tuna

Hey Tuna,
any ice up there????  are you "on the water" yet?  :
 

thanks! we are heading to Adk's tomorrow. I'll let you know what we find. BTW I caught Donna the Buffalo and Hot Tuna a couple weeks ago in Ithaca. Great show!
Tight Lines

Hey Tuna,did Santa bring you that flat screen TV and heater? If so Maybe I can get enthused.....did I mention that I HATE winter!
Seriously,good to learn that the weather is stroking your passion...go get "em TUNA!

Looks good to me, playing the waiting game here.....

hot tuna
Well I guess I'm not worthy ..
Figured with the near 50 deg weather the last few days that all local points would be wide open.. loaded up the Kayak, jig rods, vex and headed to my favorite perch grounds..
Gosh, there was ICE !!
 
THEN the sun started dropping and so did the temp.. I hung out as long as I could.. fingers got cold real fast and high tailed it to shore.. once I hit the beach I knew I was in trouble..
Shivering uncontrollably.. Loaded gear as fast as I could, cranked heat on High the whole way home (20 mins) and shivering ..
I had Hypothermia , big time !!!
Totally unprepared for sittin "in" the ice..
 
Be careful out there and Have a Great Safe 2015 Ice Season !!

 
I'm glad you made it home with nothing worse than the chill... it would have to be difficult to get the right combo of warm layers which still allow adequate movement for kayaking and avoid overheating.  I do a brief cold water safety speech for kids when they do tours at the ambulance station.  It is incredible how fast the hypothermia can begin having drastic affects on your motor abilities!
I give you credit for getting out there and giving it a good go even in December.  I have to admit I am a warm weather fisherman at heart, although I will go once or twice during hard water.
I do look forward to your posts through the winter!

Well Jack my friend, Santa did bring me a 50" flat screen TV so I guess you'll be joining me this year . Lol

Pretty cool, RJ. I've broke through thin ice with the bow of my yak , and gone through slush chasing ice- out pike and trout. I thought about it lately, too. You do really need some layers on. Hypothermia is no joke, glad you got off easy. I would have had fun going, despite the cold.  I always joked if you were going to freeze to death, get  down on your elbows and knees and put your hands together in front of you. That way, rescue people can just put a rope around your neck and sled you out. It was funny until I saw a frozen body in that position on Mt. Washington.
I've fished the SR for the past 6 New Years's mornings. I'm breaking that streak this year and going back to a much  longer tradition of backpacking up a mountain somewhere. We're going up a steep trail to a shelter in front of a waterfall for this year. Finished shingling my current  project yesterday, and poured a bunch of sonna tubes. The weather was VERY cooperative. I'm glad I've got this one closed in, I lose sleep at night worrying about swelling in the framing and the damage it does when it dries out. Cracked floor tiles and popped sheetrock screws are often the result. This one was long sheathed  though, so my hygrometer readings are good. Ice is mostly gone here, but this week will change that quick. Wish all a good New Year.

I got out a couple times in the last week out west,the fishing was nice but the catching is SLOW.Managed a couple hook ups and a few landed but nothing to get excited about,might give it one last try on Friday before I head for the barn.won't try again until the THAW!!

There has been no catching to report, either seen or participated in in the few hours I could scrape out with the Holidays. 
 
Happy New Years, and dress warm, we're in for an arctic blast, and HT is in  for some good ice!

Well I hope to have a better 2015 then the last day of 14.
Arctic blast bit me in the azz with a cracked boiler this eve. Ugh.. At least the woodstoves are still burning.
Screw it I say, I'm walking on water in am .
Hope your'r all days of the New Year are happy .
Peace and Tuna

Happy new year and have a blast tuna!!! Steam or hot water boiler bud?

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Pretty sweet hog :) I got a hog of a lifetime through the ice and they do pull back well .. The shirt is cool too ..
Glad you had success and now the ice is golden everywhere around here. The big lake George should be all good to go next week.
My season has been the worst ever.. Been putting in a lot if time with little results. Not even the perch are liking me:(
Gotta keep trying though because ya never know when that monster fish will be there since now its anybody's game on the hardwater :)
Going perchin' sat and chase some wabbits Sunday then it's all jiggin for trouts after that. Maybe jack will venture out.. Lol

For the first time since napster was born I am without an actual PC ( computer ) so I haven't figured a way to upload any pics .. Soon , I hope..
Keep us up todate on things and thanks for sharing the pic of a Phatty bass
Peace & Tuna

If you are traveling any distance, be aware that the laker water on some of the finger lakes never freezes (Seneca, Cayuga) , and on many others only freezes in some winters (Kueka Canandaigua, even Hemlock, which is still reported to be iffy except very close to south end and near shore despite the low temps we've had the last few weeks).  I don't know about the eastern Lakes, but the Lakes I mentioned are all big deep energy storage units, and can take a lot longer to freeze than HT's stomping grounds.  Most of my time has been on Canadice, the smallest of the trout lakes, and I have not had a lot of luck, but the guys who do connect are mainly jigging in deep water, but report that the fish can come from anywhere in the water column.  I've had flags fishing dead smelt right on the bottom in the deep parts of the lake, we've also caught some browns in shallower water(20-40fow) 3-6 feet under the ice.  The shallow tip up sets make sense to me also because the guys who jig smelt are often not in deep water, but there are also a lot of pickerel in the lake and they will be keeping you running, and eating good if you like to make patties, these are some of the biggest pickerel in the state with 20" + fish relatively common (also on Hemlock), but if you are after trout and have limited bait, they can be a nuisance.  As to lures, I've always fished pimples, but I will defer to anything that Tuna tells you as Lake Trout are Lake Trout!    
There are threads for all these lakes on IceShanty, and the guys who report on that site seem to be extremely honest about conditions, so I would watch the posts when you want to come up.

I'm not an ice fishermen but I did read a good article about Otsego Lake last winter.  It seems that the sharpies who ply those waters like to work the shallow waters 12' to 15' deep for lakers.  Suckers were the popular bait.