How many of you are getting anxious for open water????

[big walleye]

  Good Lord this ice season is not even over and I cannot wait to get out to the open water. So many lakes and so little time. I swear I must of been a fish in my previous life.

[grumpymoe]

a jiggin rapala with a second life!!  couldn't resist... with a bent front hook!!...grump

[big walleye]

Did I tell you I only have one life jacket in my boat. Guess who's wearing it grump??? hey one good thing about open water is that you wont get cross eyed looking down that angled hole

[trapperdirk]

 Not I  Big Walleye . I hate the invasion of the tourists . I don't have to share the lakes or roads as much when the ice is on .

[Trophy Hunter639]

Good Lord this ice season is not even over and I cannot wait to get out to the open water. So many lakes and so little time. I swear I must of been a fish in my previous life.

I hear you Big Walleye 

[Ashnohgrimbatul]

I need the open water!  I think I'm developing some mental condition because all I can think about is fishing.... where i'm going to go, what techniques I'm going to use, everything.  I've done all i can for now, got maps of the lakes i want to go to, made my spinner combos, bought a lot of gear.  Now all I can do is wait for the d**n ice to go off.

[icebraker]

If i cant get any perch ice fishing i can hardly wait for open water then i am going to really get my self some perch. but hey 9 more days of icefishing 

[reubenpa]

I want open water!!!!!!!!  Ever since the first warm days, the cold nad ice fishing kind of turn me off.  I want open water and warm days!!

[perch pounder]

The hardest wait is the wait between ice-off and open season .....

You can't even fish for trout then

[Bushman]

The water is as smooth as glass, the loons are calling, and a flock of red heads is streaking across the lake at mach 1. You make your first cast you watch your lour disappears beneath the surface; you see a swirl and feel that solid impact of a good fish. Line peels off your reel....................BEEP,BEEP,BEEP the alarm just went off its time for another day at work. DONT WORRY BOYS WERE ALMOST THERE.

[Ashnohgrimbatul]

The water is as smooth as glass, the loons are calling, and a flock of red heads is streaking across the lake at mach 1. You make your first cast you watch your lour disappears beneath the surface; you see a swirl and feel that solid impact of a good fish. Line peels off your reel....................BEEP,BEEP,BEEP the alarm just went off its time for another day at work. DONT WORRY BOYS WERE ALMOST THERE.

Hit the nail on the head bushman.  Woke up this morning, caught a 50lb Laker last night!  I've never really even caught a laker in real life.

[big walleye]

Bushman I have caught many a trophy fish in my sleep. Even woke up to a redhead beside me but that is for another forum.

[grumpymoe]

perch pounder  what do you mean can't even fish for trout???  i intend on getting some before ice out in april and right after on open water...2 beauts coming home and i wont share!   

[perch pounder]

It's those two weeks or so when the ice is not safe to walk on unless you have a floater suit on

Don't know about you guys but I don't care too much for those polar bear swims

[grumpymoe]

perch pounder   by no means i am encouraging angling on unsafe ice by my post..i've seen vehicles coming across winter roads in ontario as late as april 13.....the same year ice left the lake on the 29th same month...now thats suicide in my estimation..if the ice has decent snow cover remaining, then it will not honeycomb as quickly.. i am the biggest whiteknuckler when it comes to ice and i take no chances whatsoever.......grump