Friday to Sunday recap., Great 3 days.

Friday afternoon got off work at 12 and made the brutal walk out which took almost an hour. Marking but not catching. Moved around a bit and found a fish streaking 20 ft of the bottom to get my lure. Laker methinks...few minutes later top side is the most aggressive whitey I've ever seen. Dinner is served. Back onto the ice next morning and of course the alarm I set was from a week from the day and it's 815 by the time I hit the water. This time the bike made it out for the first time this year in deeper water. First drop a whitey is on the line. Second drop a 14 lbs laker inhaled the vibrato 35ft off bottom before it even dropped all the way. After 15 minutes it was top side and bleeding really bad as it swallowed the lure and one treble ripped right through the gill. Then all went quite for the next 5 hours until finally another whitey commited. Today was a different story. Out on the ice by 645, lost a fish at the hole by 730 and came home reeking of skunk by 6. All in all a great weekend on the ice

Saturday

Sunday

great fishing report man. way to go.
just out of a curiosity and not judging by any means - what would you do with a 14lbs laker? i didnt think anything above 5-6 lbs is edible... share any recipes?

Usually it would be going back down the hole but without a gill I don't think it would make it. 2 days in a mixture of 1 to 1 coarse salt and brown sugar and black pepper. A day of hanging in the cage to dry out a little and then it's off to the smoker for that fish for the next 4 hours at around d 175.

Usually it would be going back down the hole but without a gill I don't think it would make it. 2 days in a mixture of 1 to 1 coarse salt and brown sugar and black pepper. A day of hanging in the cage to dry out a little and then it's off to the smoker for that fish for the next 4 hours at around d 175.

smoker. got ya. we smoke the smaller trout, occasional whities and silver bass in the summer. just once i tried smoking an 11 lbs laker and it still tasted like smoked mud never since

let me know how yours will turn out. wednesday ish?

Usually it would be going back down the hole but without a gill I don't think it would make it. 2 days in a mixture of 1 to 1 coarse salt and brown sugar and black pepper. A day of hanging in the cage to dry out a little and then it's off to the smoker for that fish for the next 4 hours at around d 175.

smoker. got ya. we smoke the smaller trout, occasional whities and silver bass in the summer. just once i tried smoking an 11 lbs laker and it still tasted like smoked mud never since

let me know how yours will turn out. wednesday ish?

Wednesday or Thursday. Ive never smoked a laker this big but I did smoke a steelhead that was just a lbs under due to the same circumstances and if you coat with REAL maple syrup every hour it came out pretty good. Hoping for the same results!

Well done, love the skunk pic !