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Offline bayonne

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ice fishing
« on: December 18, 2007, 08:59:49 PM »
anyone on this site do some ice fishing the lakes up north are locking up good hopatcong has reports of 5 in 1/2 black ice 1/2 white if anyone wants to hook up in jan i like it a little thicker my self
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2007, 11:41:10 PM »
That use to be one of our family's favorite lakes to fish.  Haven't been up there in decades.
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2007, 05:57:07 AM »
brrrr, hell no
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2007, 11:25:23 AM »
Do you fish out in the open or do you have a portable shelter?

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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2007, 11:52:22 AM »
we will be there soon ,bay looks like we will be getting another contest going . last year was a lot of fun t^
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2007, 12:23:13 PM »
I usually make 1 or 2 ice fishing trips a year to Oxford Furnace Lake or Spruce Run if there's water...
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2007, 03:27:38 PM »
I do a lot of fishing on Spruce Run, but never icefishing. i always wanted to try though.
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2007, 07:39:03 PM »
 TT^
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2007, 09:09:43 PM »
brrrrrr
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2007, 09:18:46 PM »
i dont have a shelter might try to get one though and rug cant wait t^ they were talking your neck of the woods and sruce run is a waste of time ice fishing your better off up north hopatcong bud lake for pike but if its a good cold winter assunpink is great aswell big bass through the ice but bait is hard to come by down their you can set up something at molders in english town call and set a date and time for picking up hes normaly closed
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2007, 09:26:08 PM »
What do you use for bait when ice fishing?   5hrug
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2007, 09:52:10 PM »
live shinners for the tip ups grubs for tipping the jiggs perch and blue gills bite good on a jig tipped with wax worms or whats called mousies when avaliable and crappies aswell for you guys down south sring lake gets a winter stocking of trout if it locks up good you can jig up some trout and all three assunpink lakes are great fishing i never tried farington but thats got pike aswell
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2007, 10:33:50 PM »
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2007, 10:39:32 PM »
Nice fish!   t^
Sounded like a lot of wind that day. 
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2007, 10:58:08 PM »
Nice catch.

Where in relation to the island were you.

Boy that looks cold and the wind sounds nasty.

Paul
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 11:13:38 PM »
thats not me thats one of the regulars on the lake i know he fishes chesnut point and river styxs alot he gets 10 lb channel cats jigging
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 11:23:12 PM »
Cool... TT^
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2007, 08:04:47 AM »
Spruce Run is good for pike through the ice. But in only gets safe ice in a cold winter.
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2007, 10:32:18 AM »
I went once, By the time I got home everything I caught MELTED  rofla rofla hhppy hhppy
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Re: ice fishing
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2007, 11:06:38 AM »
Quote from: Pops Soul on December 20, 2007, 10:32:18 AM
I went once, By the time I got home everything I caught MELTED  rofla rofla hhppy hhppy

And you lost the recipe for making new ice!   TT^
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