Always sad to call your trip final for the season, but this is what it was. It’s useless to call this tread as a report, just sharing some good moments of 3 more days fishing Lake Nipissing. Despite brutal weather and ice conditions we managed to land some good size pickerel and jumbo perch. Friday March 9 was a day of fun, when in the morning we discovered that ice is absolutely bare and had lots of deep pockets of slush, still we headed to great Manitou island area. Beautiful weather with plus temps., sunshine and 0 wind, but absolutely no bite till around 2 pm, when sky became dark grey and the crazy wind dropped at us from nowhere. It was hard to remain in an upward position, wind was literally moving you around as a toy, heavy snow made visibility close to 0 and the bite began! Managing 2 rods was impossible, as soon as your minnow was hitting bottom you had fish on! That was for an about 2 hours, but we just couldn’t fight that storm any longer and left the ice. Next morning we had some snow on ice and enjoyed moving around in a search for fish on a sleds, finally we got a HH and ended up with a limit of eyes. Sunday with bright sunshine and double digit temps we didn’t expect much and didn’t catch anything, but few perch, instead had a great time with local fishermen we met on ice at the beginning of season and became friends with. All in all it was not bad of the season for us.Looking forward to next ice fishing opener in Ontario and good luck to everyone on water for next 10 month.
The final trip of the season
