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\nI went back up to Brant Lake<\/b> over the weekend to try my luck on the ice again. Like last time, the trip started with a stop at The Crossroads Country Store<\/b>, for a breakfast sandwich and two dozen icicles for bait<\/b>. This time we picked up a container of grubs<\/b> too, I had gotten a tip to use them when jigging, and figured I would try it.<\/p>\n
We got to the lake at about 8am, and were on the ice all set up by 8:30. My father worked on his auger a bit, cleaned the carburetor, and had it running. In fact, he had ten holes cut for me and my friend before we even got there<\/b>.
\nI set four of my tip-ups for Perch<\/b>, with the icicles hanging about 5 feet of the bottom of the lake. The last tip-up was set about ten feet below the ice, again hoping that a Trout would cruise by<\/b> looking for a snack.<\/p>\n
The weather was nice on Saturday, about 35F and partly cloudy (partly sunny<\/i>). We landed a few Perch on tip-ups<\/b> to start the morning, and were probably averaging a flag every 20 minutes or so between the three of us (15 tip-ups total).<\/p>\n
Just before noon I walked over to my friend Josh to see what he was using for bait on his jigging setup. He had bought a few little jigs at Crossroads while we were there, and he told me I should try the little white thing and throw some grubs on the hook<\/b>. He was fishing an almost identical jig, only his had a pink head where mine was white.<\/p>\n
I dropped the jig to the bottom of the lake, and slowly started jigging. Jerking up and down a few times before reeling a few feet of line in and trying again<\/b>, working my way back up to the ice. Once I got to the ice I dropped the jig back down to the bottom<\/b> and tried again. A few minutes later I felt a little tug<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The jig couldn’t have been more than 10 or 15 feet off the bottom (we were fishing in about 30 feet of water). I set the hook rather lightly<\/b> as I have been guilty of yanking hooks right out of a fish’s mouth more than once.<\/p>\n
I have never caught any fish on my jig stick except for a tiny smelt a few weekends ago, so I didn’t really know what to expect as far as fighting a fish on a two foot rod<\/b>. I could certainly tell though, that the fish on my line was not<\/i> a seven inch Perch.<\/p>\n
I fought with the thing briefly, before pulling it up through the ice. An 18″ Brown Trout<\/b> that weighed in at 2.5 pounds<\/b>! My wish had been granted! This is the biggest Brown Trout<\/b> I have ever caught, on the smallest fishing rod I have ever used!<\/p>\n
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We ended up catching 11 Perch<\/b> that were good enough size to eat, and that beauty of a Brown Trout! I should take this opportunity to say thank you<\/i> to Josh, who let me use his jig and told me how to set it up, which lead to my success. Thanks Josh!<\/b><\/p>\n
Josh and I headed back up there on Sunday, when it was about 10F out with wind gusting upwards of 20mph. We had a popup shanty<\/b> on Sunday that another friend had brought, which combined with the constant sunshine kept us from freezing all day long. Sunday we ended up heading home with 8 more Perch<\/b>.<\/p>\n
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Overall it was a fun weekend of fishing, and I look forward to doing it again next weekend. I plan on heading back to Brant Lake<\/b> both Saturday and Sunday this week with my father and few of his friends. I’ll let you know how it goes!<\/p>\n
Are any of my readers having any luck this season?<\/b> I wish Lake George <\/b>would freeze so I could go after some Lake Trout<\/b>, but I can settle<\/i> for 18″ Browns any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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