Sk8man

ontherise - spooky because of some clear spots mixed with chunked up ice with multiple fractures that have frozen in many places...it's like walking on refrozen ice bergs turned up on edge and very rough surface. Thanks guys....a fun day even with my kid kicking my butt on keepers

Thanks Mark. It was all refrozen chunked up stuff so it varied from about 5 inches to 10 or more...some was a little "spooky" though

My son Mark and I went out about 9AM this morning on the east side and fished until 6:30 PM with pretty steady action all day. Started in 5 ft water because we saw school of perch through a clear patch of ice. We caught about 12 in there and then moved out deep because of "dinkitis" We went out to 14 ft and I fished the same hole all day despite drilling a bunch of holes when we arrived. We jigged with waxies and spikes mainly. We caught over 100 plus dinks apiece during the action and threw them back as we went along. We ended up with 84 perch altogether (my son limited out) ...I kept 34 including a nice jumbo in the last hour. Mark caught a keeper pickerel and I caught a sucker of all things on my jig which I threw back. I took a few pics of my fish earlier when it was light but Mark was in his hut so I didn't get any of his. The biggest of my perch was about 14 1/2 inches

Depends on where on north end. If going out from the Kershaw Park area (long walk to "perchville") the lot next to the bathhouse. If the area around Squaw Island park near the pier. If going from the east side the pull off area a couple miles up the lake on the east side. The best place is from one of the cottages on the east side if you know someone who lives there unfortunately I don't.

Are you sure they are walkers? They look like the old Rivieras

To me a boat is just a fishing platform to get me on the water (instead of shorebound) and as long as you can get out there and do the things you want to do it is all that really matters. I had my 13 ft. Whaler for 22 years and it got me out into the middle of Lake O many times (thanks to the dodger I had on the front of it )and I had so much equipment on that little boat that folks used to drive me nuts during derbies coming up too close to take pics of it etc. and I could manuever it in and out of traffic and turn around on a dime in the launches and head out while other folks were still jockeying around their bigger boats. It isn't what you have it is really how you use it and basically having fun while you're doing it.

I believe that they have to have the person who is physically present name/address on them.

Sneaky - Gator has given you some great info. Just make sure that when you put your names on the tip-ups you specify your daughters name on her 5 and not run the 10 with your name and address....it may not have been fully clear. I also believe that you need to be within watchful distance of them at all times (at one time I believe it was 50 ft. of nearest one). I once saw a guy get ticketed for leaving them unattended because he left his out while he walked back to his car about 3/4 mile away to get something and the DEC guy just happened to stop by then.

I'm hoping to get to Keuka soon too. I haven't heard anything but I know there have been a lot of folks out on the ice lately but the south wind can really cut back that ice quickly at the north end. I also heard that they have been ice fishing at the Hammondsport end....

I think they may be over on the east side off the pull off area out fairly deep (about 26-30) if you can get out that far. It was open water and the edge of the shelf about there when I checked a couple days ago.

Cool! Man...what a difference a couple days makes with this temp...it was all broken up with open water day before yesterday. Was the bubbler operating?

Where did you go onto the ice at?

I fished Honeoye yesterday so I haven't been back to check. There were guys launching their ice boats from the north end pier (where you tie up boats across from the ice cream place) yesterday before I left for Honeoye and I saw one guy in his hut out about 4 hundred yards out and to the left of that channel (the one to Sagers).