A Puck and a Fishy Prayer...
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 01:53PM 
Taking A Break...
Man, I'm getting old. I had an old hockey teammate in town for a "boys weekend" and Jeff and I sure made the most of our time together... The theme of our trip was "ice". We started by lacing up and spending a couple hours each day on the ice. After we'd wear out, we'd trade in our skates and sticks for ice fishing gear. See, although Jeff is from Montreal, he never really got into the ice fishing thing. I vowed to change that. We headed out to one of my favorite metro lakes and it was
Jeff in the Otter...
instantly clear that Jeff has a future in ice fishing. We set up the Otter Ice Cabin and just as soon as Jeff's tiny jig dropped through the hole, his rod tip dipped and he had a tug on the end of the
Jeff With Two Nice Fish!
line. Jeff quickly reeled in his first big sunfish. He proceeded to repeat the act all evening, coming up with quite the pile of fish. Heck, the two of us went through two tins of waxworms in three hours.
Another Nice Fish
That's pretty rare, especially on a metro lake. We even had a tip-up pop right about sunset. Jeff slowly pulled line in, hand over hand, and brought a beautiful largemouth out through the eight inch hole.
Winter Bass
What a weekend of fishing. Again, our recipe for both big crappies and sunfish consisted of Northland Mud Bugs tipped with waxies and also Northland Bro's Bloodworm Jigs tipped with plastic Buggy Tails.
Cleaning Fish
We ended up cleaning quite a few fish and enjoying quite the winter feast.
The Fish Fry... Our last afternoon, we decided to skip fishing and head to one of my old skating haunts. We split up 
Splitting Up Teams...sticks and skated against a bunch of high school hotshots. Nothing like a classic game of shinny with ten guys on each team. After that game, I need a bottle of Advil. Man, I'm getting old....
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