Done with ice fishing,, Bring on the softwater!!!

Most areas around us are not safe for ice fishing and I much prefer shore or boat fishing. It's a little too early to launch the boat but our favourite shore spot was free of ice as of Friday. We found some time to fish on Sunday and managed about 30 perch. We kept the 4 largest ones for dinner that night. They were between 10 - 11". I did throw another back that was in that range but she was really full of eggs so let her swim away.

And ready for the fry pan...

Nice perch npetersen....

Nice catch. Those are pretty healthy looking perch. Great looking table. Yes- bring on the shore fishing!

Fine looking meal

Tell us where you were. Like to take my son out for perch.

Oh man, I haven’t had fried perch in two weeks! This time of the year is the worst!
Nice looking plate

Well done Nicole..

I was wondering when that spot would start producing..

Crappie will start soon as well

Meal looks delicious...

Nice looking perch and even nicer looking meal.

I think a lot of us are waiting on the soft water season now, those fillets look like were delicious

those fillets look good even uncooked. Nice work.

We are fishing in the Thousand Islands on the St Lawrence River.

Thanks for the replies, fish tasted even better than they looked!

Jerry, we checked out the crappie spot but still lots of ice, will keep on checking though!

Hi Nicole.....haven't seen you in ages, but we live in a different area, so understandable.

Good to see you cacthin dinners again and have a great open water season

I still have one ice fishing trip left to do and then will focus on getting boats ready!

I know it's been a long time! I can't believe we've been living here for almost 2.5 years already, time is just flying by! We are on opposite ends of Lake O so quite the distance between us but we're going to try and get to the next Meet and Greet.

Lets hope we don't have to deal with all of the flooding like last year but the water levels are still high for this time of year!