The past week in Ice fishing(MEGA pics and video)

For all you guys going to Monksville today, hope this gets you a little psyched.....See you in a few hrs.....

Well I'm going to try to keep this post a bit funny(pictures) instead of just my normal post of pix of fish........
Got a chance to fish w/ some more guys from
this site before this weekend's ice fishing derby.....On Thursday me and my friend Joe met Pete
and Jason at Greenwood in search of Muskies or whatever would bite.....Now getting there
was an issue in itself as on our part there was a lack of judgement and I thought I remembered
where the launch spot was...I f&cked that up...So a 10:00 meet time ended up actually being a little later due to
my lack of judgement...So we set out on the ice, and I see two guys ice fishing so we start talking to one
of them and set up a few tip ups and I go to introduce myself to the other guy and say, "Hey Pete, nice to meet you"
and this guy looks at me and says I'm not Pete I'm Mario....We were like WTF?......Wrong guys!!!!....they pointed us towards
other guys at another spot, got on the cell and lo and behold there were Pete and Jason....FAR AWAY.....so we ended up walking(only 15
minutes on ice) and finally meet up w/them by around 11:30.....Damn these guys are hardcore I could tell as soon as I saw the barbeque on ice!!
My kinda fisherman!!.....So they tell us they already had caught 15 perch by the time we got there and we were psyched...Hopefully Mr. Muskie would
be close in the area(ended up not being the case)....So we start jigging and setting off tipups and within 5 minutes Joe and I each had our first
Greenwood Lake fish thru the ice...Started the fun of the afternoon off and by days end we caught @ 36 perch between us....Pete and Jason are AWESOME
guys and diehard fisherman......I brought Cherryaki Marinated chicken thighs and Pete made us Burgers.....It was alot of fun and gonna be fishing
with these guys alot more throughout the season.Here's a few pics from Thursday:

Me Pete and Jason....









Time to eat!!!


Gettin jiggy with it!!!






As we were leaving the lake at sundown

So me and Brad decided to go back and try for Mr Muskie on friday and it was just a free for all.....When me and Brad fish together(I know him for more than 15 years and he is one of my good friends)
it's all about goofing off and joking around ....We always get on the fish as we are both local NNJ guys who know the lakes pretty well and so we just ave a FUN day
on wherever we are fishing......Brad never has been ice fishing before so it was my goal to put him on something so he gets the bug.......I showed him some basics and how to rig up a tip up and recommended which
jig I do good with, tied him up, and told him to jig and I'd rig up the rest of the tipups.....by the time I finished setting up the last one, I hear him scream like a banshee and see him reeling in something.
I figured it was something nice because how loud he screamed....Nah, it was a perch, but he was so happy he broke his ice fishing cherry, he went nuts...Believe me, this guy is a destrpyer in open water and has
caught bass up to 7# when we fish together.....Anyway,all day long we were cracking jokes as usual, goofing on our catches, and having fun......A flag even hit him in the face and cut his forehead and all we could do was laugh.
Ended up with 15 for the day in @ 4 hours.......Took some video and pics and here's how it went down today.....Looking forward to this weekend(I'll be there on Sunday at Monksville) meeting everyone....It's been a few years
I've been on this site and never been to one of these Meet and Greets....Oh yeah, my wife made 5 quarts of Chili for us also...And today she's making cornbread...Hope you guys are hungry....talked to Eddie and he said he's gonna bring his
grill to keep it warm.......Here's a few pics from Brad and Me and a video of me nailing a perch jigging.......See you Sunday guys.....Catch em up!!!!!

Bonus videos:
Me gettin jiggy with it:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...98144845928574

Brad w/ perch on a tipup
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...45646677985902
















Better save your appetites, Debi made her famous 5 alarm Chili.....FISH ON GUYS!!!!.....

[shucker]

Whats with the perch in the mouth.......................

Originally Posted by shucker

Whats with the perch in the mouth.......................

Having fun while fishing...

[njbassman]

Mitch awesome pics, it was good to finally meet you and Joe. Have been reading your posts for a long time. The fishing was ok, every time a flag goes up there you have in the back of your mind "am i going to need the gaffe for this one" kinda keeps you interested. We had good food, lotta laughs... the fish in LH are quaking in their little bed right now and they don't even know why... Lets hit it up this week and take it to em... maybe we will run into some of the guys from the m-n-g... jimmy and anthony... good dudes...who knows maybe even eddie, mike or some of the other guys... would be tons of fun... what day is good for you this week... let me see i am free mon, tues. wed. thurs. or fri. Jason's name is Craig btw aka "Jigs". Its cool he won't see the post, not a computer guy. His talents all lie in the fishing... anyway will reach out... thanks again!!

Sounds like a plan Pete....Txt me when you want to go and I'm in....Do you know Anthony(Jimmy's friend)......If yes or if Jimmy or Anthony are reading this, please let him know i have his ice corkers in my car...He left before I did and I forgot to return them.....but will get them back to him next time or i can mail them....either way......Thinking about going out this morning , but first have to go to the dentist to make an appt. for my dental work finally!!..This state sucks with medical coverage...It took 6 months for my dental to finally be approved!!!!......but the good thing is now it has been and once the work is done, i can finally smile again and show some teeth!!...LOL.........ttyl!!....FISH ON!!

[UglyStick]

A couple of great days on the hard water there Mitch. As much as I HATE the cold, I'm gonna have to get out there on the ice with you one of these times. Chili looks great too... Fish On...

Originally Posted by UglyStick

A couple of great days on the hard water there Mitch. As much as I HATE the cold, I'm gonna have to get out there on the ice with you one of these times. Chili looks great too... Fish On...

Jim, there is another M & G at Hopatcong in 2 weeks from this site.....Let's try to make it together.....That place at least has fish in it.....I'll call you by weeks end for sure buddy!!!