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 Yellow, White, Green and Brown 
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King of Spring

Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:09 pm
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Post Yellow, White, Green and Brown
It has been a couple years since Coalman and Bay have taken a trip on hard water to fish. There were work deadlines that needed to be met in January. Those commitments meant working weekends and that kept us off the lakes and ponds. But it is because of the job we get to enjoy life’s other pleasures.

An email earlier this month from our friend, Guide Jim, holding a 4 plus pound brown trout got our priorities back on track. Team Coalman has never caught a brown trout. It didn’t hurt each day at work when starting the computer that his picture is now our screensaver.

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Since it has been so long since the gear has been wet a lot of prep work was needed to get our ice fishing equipment back to working condition. After completing the fishing tools it only took three pulls to get the gas powered auger fired up. The two cycle exhaust smelled like fishing memories.

This year the four-wheeler was to earn it’s keep by providing Bay and Coalman with transportation on the ice. Our Jet sled was upgraded with a hitch and cover so we could tow our supplies. All that was left to do was fish.

02-01-14

Guide Jim, his son Tim, Bay and Coalman were drilling holes on Secret Pond at daybreak today. We brought along six dozen shiners for bait. After setting four traps each we all grouped around our mobile shelter to try our luck at jigging. It didn’t take long and the color yellow was on the ice. Yellow perch would be the most numerous fish caught on this outing and jigging caught more fish than the traps.

Our Encampment

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Bay was never too far from a flag.

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Or a jig pole

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Tim’s brown trout

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Happy father and son

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Coalman’s first ever brown trout

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We had a visit from a group of homeowners from along the shore of the pond. They told us they had three mature bald eagles feeding on fish scraps in front of their homes. Jim got up from jigging and went around and gathered up some smaller yellow perch for the ladies to take back. At this time his jig pole is about to head to Davey Jones’s locker. With a quick snatch of his stick Coalman pulled a nice largemouth bass to the surface. One of the group of four ladies proudly said, “I know how to hold that fish”. So the ladies went home with their bag of yellow perch and a group photo of them displaying the bass. Memories can happen in a heartbeat.

In mid afternoon we watched a mature bald eagle fly to one of our distant traps and snatch a previously caught pickerel off the ice. It flew a couple hundred feet away, landed, spread its wings over it prey and devoured that green fish. We were just a little too far away for a Kodak moment.

We had pretty much nonstop action all day long. By late afternoon our bait supply was in the single numbers under five. It was time to pack up on our adventure.

Anybody seen Bay?

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Our 3 AM wake up got to Bay first. She was having a snooze.

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Yellow, white, green and brown……our kind of rainbow.

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King of Spring

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Post Re: Yellow, White, Green and Brown
nice haul.

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Boss Gobbler

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Post Re: Yellow, White, Green and Brown
Sounds like a great time! Was at work last night and none of the pictures would come through on my work computer. Couldn't stand it to see these because I always enjoy your stories and pics.

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