'16-'17 Hardwater

I'm with you Crappie_Slayer..... it's getting boring sitting in trees.   I looked at the long range forecast provided by the NWS but after two minutes of their jargon I gave up.  The report they had this week contradicts the report they issued last week for the same time period, at the end of this month.  If anybody needs me; I'll be in my tree.


Quick update; Shenango reporting water temp 44 degrees. And after seeing a selfie posted by the Capt; who had just caught a beauty of Striper while wading in that water, I would venture to say the look on his face confirms the water temp. lol

Where do you guys get your ice fishing equipment? I've been searching for 3 years, running myself simple and I still haven't found everything I need or want.

Jigs, I'll second what outasync said. Fish USA has a nice selection for ordering online. Also I buy quite a bit of small stuff from the smaller local bait shops. As far as getting everything you need or "want", good luck with that. Seems like any store I walk into that sells ice fishing gear has something I need and/or want. 😉

Old dog: I've been meaning to check that area out. It may have some decent archery hunting too. Everything behind our house is posted so something close that's accessible would be great!

Driving into conneaut lake today there was some ice forming in the docks behind Nye's. Was bored this weekend and I've got the itch to get on the ice so bad I whipped up a few jaw jacker style rigs. Can't wait to give them a try.

Just looking at the extended forecast for my little piece of Penn's Woods.  51 degrees F. on Christmas Eve.  
 
 
WTH????

I'll buy the coffee.

I'll bring the jerky and snack sticks.lol I'm more the ready, Moraine and Shenango should be first on the list. If your a jigger plenty of 7-7.5 gills at Moraine,not giants but ok the numbers are ridiculous. Shenango will give tons of decent crappie it's up to you what you consider a keeper. I keep at 10" but a lot of people don't. Plenty of fat black crappie 8"- 14" with way more on the low end of the bar. The really big one also seem to be those sloped nose white crappie. There's also a lot of action at both places. I hope for early ice in January and a long 12 weeks of fishing.

I doubt it most lakes are capped,the warm up will melt some snow on the ice and actually make better ice. It's not going to come fast but mid January we'll be on the ice. Extended forecast shows many nighttime temps below freezing. 

There's 3-3.5" of ice on Moraine. Tip-up gang limiting out on basses. If you eat bass that's the place to go.lol

4 inches on misery bay. caught 15 perch 8-9 inches

Another warm weekend on the way in NW PA 😬😬😬

Was told pymy was still capped, but not sure what kind of condition the ice was in. I'm sure the 8" or so of snow that dumped down isn't gonna help. Guess a warm weekend will be helpful to melt some of the snow down. Looks like some colder temps on the way next week

Pretty quiet on here. Luckily the worst of the snow missed Crawford county and the temps have been lower than expected at night. Will be heading over to pymy tomorrow to have a look and hopefully get out for the first time. One more warm up middle of next week, then hopefully the deep freeze sets in for a while.

Me..... me!!! I wanna go, I wanna go fishin too!!! That is "IF" I get over this 'whatever it is people has been catching'. Just my luck, I can go out for days and not catch a fish but go to Walmart for an hour and, catch a boat load of cold-n-flu. Stupid fish.