Annual ice fishing trip to Nipissing, Idle Tyme

Just back from our annual trip to Nipissing, great time had by all. The cold weather that moved in seemed to the slow the fishing down overall from talking to others up there but we managed to do alright for the days we were up there. Had a nice fish fry Saturday night of walleye and perch, we managed 12 walleye under the slot and plenty of nice size perch, no walleye in or over the slot caught. One guy in our group did exceptionally well, lots of non stop action all weekend.

Met up with BIGFILTHY, Skunked Again and Fish4Ever up there with the rest of their group, they were in the bungalow next to ours. They dropped by Saturday night with a special fish coating they called PF70 one of their group brought up from Newfoundland for us to try, very nice thanks for sharing.

One guy in our group caught a nice 2.8lb smallmouth that was a nice surprise and another caught a small muskie that was a nice surprise as well.

Shawn, Terra and staff did a great job as always and took great care of us, thanks from all.

Some pictures from the weekend posted below.

Fish On
FatRap

Happy, Happy, Happy

2.8lb smallmouth

Big cisco

Chef Bob, outstanding job on the fish fry as usual.

left to right - BIGFILTHY, Shawn (owner or Idle Tyme) and myself.

Home Sweet Home

Moon rise Saturday nice.

Great report. Looked like a great time! Nice pics. Well done

Great post...were you on south shore or deep water point?

What is strange is how many smallmouth are bing caught...since opener, I have caught 6...and I have seem other posts with smallies including yours...must be the warmer water temps...any other theories?

looks like a great fishing trip dave

nice pics

who was the outstandig fisher person

we know who it would have been if i was there ha ha ha



did you have to get the gaff


gary

Thanks JayRay, great time had by all.

FatRap

Thanks, Idle Tyme is around deep water point. No idea what's going on with the smallies but we seem to be catching them the last 3 years we have gone up? They still put up a pretty good fight in the winter.

FatRap

Thanks Gary, good times as always. Andy was the busy one this year, looked at me last night and said "I feel like Gary"

Had to get the gaff when Nuby hooked into the bass but once we seen what it was Bob just lipped it out of the hole.

Hooked up with a couple of board members up there which was good, Shawn had them in the bungalow next to ours.

Dave

Great report!! Happy to hear the fishing was as good up at Idle tyme as when I was there for the opener. Shawn and Terra really do run a great operation up there!!