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I used to ice fish, and I will tell you that when they are biting and the action is good, it is a heck of a lot of fun. Of course, when they aren't biting, it can be a real dismal time ..... lol. But, I was just curious how guys were making out in this exceptional year of good ice.

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Keuka is completely frozen over and the guys have been hammering the lakers jigging through the ice.

I hope to get over and give it a try sometime this week. I have caught hundreds of lakers vertical jigging in open water, but I've never caught a trout of ANY species through the ice.

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Ballston lake has some BIG bass! We get there at least a couple times during the summer in the bass boat. My biggest was well over seven pounds there. Nice lake but launching the boat there is always a pain in the a.. Never tried hard water fishing on that lake though.

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Largemouths don't put up much of a fight thru the ice.  I did catch my largest ever in NY state that way however.  It was so fat I had a hard time squeezing it up out of the hole in Brantingham lake.   It had to be between 8 and 10 lbs.     Smallmouth bass, on the other hand, seem to fight almost as much thru the ice as they do in open water, as do rainbow and lake trout.    

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pygmy,  nope our fish here on the big lake in our area are WAY down in numbers, we are lacking decent numbers in 3 year classes.  have seen it here before and no doubt the numbers will be back but for now we are traveling for our perch fishing.

 

you are right, tough to beat the table fare value of good cold water perch. I will take them hands down over any other fresh water fish. now all I need to do is get enough free time to get out fishing so I can restock the freezer here and at camp.

 

 

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I have done some hunting and fishing in central Maine, near Bingham.

I was shocked to learn that the locals there COVET white perch, but scorn yellow perch. Some of them throw the yellows out on the ice for the eagles and ravens.

I caught a bunch of white perch and they were quite good, but not as good as yellow perch, IMHO.

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