-30F Ice Camping/Fishing 21 Miles Out On Lake: Walleye Catch And Cook

So we just got on the lake and we're going 19 miles out. So where that arrow and then that blue zigzag line there, that's the Canadian border. Those are houses. Yeah. They look like sticks. So my dad and I just got to our fishing spot here. We're 19 miles out. 19 miles out and it's it's minus 25 right now so we're just gonna set up my portable and start fishing before we set up the winter tent that we'll be camping in because we'll wait till it warms up a little bit this afternoon. We're through. It's a keeper I think. Yeah maybe not. It would have stretched the pail. I think it would have been one. I would have put it in the pail and yes it did hit the deucer. Fish on? I think there is but he's so light. You watch this. This thing can't be two inches long. Here he comes. I can see him. That's pretty little. All right well we fished this spot for about four hours now. We don't have any keeper fish. My dad just caught a couple little ones so we're gonna go move and move and try somewhere else. Good to meet you bud. Okay so we moved out about a mile deeper and we got camp set up so this will be home for the next three days. So right now we've got kind of the cots just stacked on top of each other in the middle with a table just to keep things out of the way during the day while we're fishing and then of course we'll rearrange tonight when we get ready to hunker down and go to bed. So right now we're uh we're fishing for the night bite. Close. Pretty close. It's going in the bucket. At this rate it's going in the bucket because we don't have any in there but well you had your line down what a minute? Not even a minute. Already better than our last spot. There we go. It's on. So here you can see where we're at on the lake. Here's Minnesota and then we're on Lake of the Woods kind of towards the northwest angle here. This is the angle and then this is the Canadian border here so towards the northwest angle and right next to Canada. And we came out of Wheeler's Point and it was uh we're about 20 miles or 21 miles out from Wheeler's Point to that blue dot where we took the ice road out here. So here's the road that we came down. It kind of curves and goes that way is where we came from. So we came 21 miles out from shore that way so you see you can't see shore and then I don't know if you can see you can kind of see land out that way. That's about seven or eight miles out from the northwest angle and then um that island that's right here is an island that's like forget what it's called it's like Garden Island something and then to the right of that over this way that's a big island and that's all in Canada but the Canadian border is only about a mile or so over that way. Nope. Oh no it's not very big. Watch the bottom roll and then come up quick. That's a keeper. I mean it's in the pail. He's on there and he is little. Might go in the middle pail. Yeah and that's how that works. That's good soup. There's a fish. Fish on? Nice fish too. A little better I think. Shake him loose. No. Perfect. I was hoping that was going to be a nice walleye keeper. Nicer fish or not really? Keeper. Nice. It's soggy. Yeah he swallowed that one. I'm gonna have to get a pliers I think. So are they coming up hard on yours or what? And like hitting it right away? I don't know if they're hitting it right away but they're they're coming up hard after it and then that this one here that I got on the line is was nice he came up about five feet. Got a little action. Did you get him? Yeah he's on. Good deal. Don't swear I'm recording. That's it good deal. Might be a keeper. He's not hooked very good I know that. Nice fish. So for those of you not familiar with Lake of the Woods or not familiar with ice fishing it's basically a city on the ice. I mean there's actual roads with street signs. There's there's a bar and grill out here and then you know these are all fish houses here that run off generators. So kind of like little cabins out on the ice that people fish in and yeah it's pretty cool. You can see there's fish houses for as far as you can see out here. Frosty. So you can see all these lights here these are all fish houses. People that are going to stay the night out on the lake as well. Everybody's got their generators running and they're nice warm ice castles. Permanent fish structures but us poor folk we sleep in the tent. Is that how you're gonna sleep tonight? Yep. Is it chilly in here? Just like so. How'd you sleep last night Kirk? So now everything's kind of thawing out and we got water dripping down everywhere. The things we do in the north for fun. A hot tent with hot food and hot coffee. I think we got it going on now. I think this is it chief. Well Kirk finally caught a nice bucket fish there. Indeed. So it's at the second second keeper today only. Yeah. Yeah it's been slow. Nice one sauger. Yep. Nice walley. So here's what we have for keepers so far. We got eight saugers. We're allowed 12. Six a piece we're allowed here on Lake of the Woods. And we are gonna cook some of these up and eat them tonight. So when it's said and done that's what we end up with for a filet. And then the fish is intact so that way if the game warden comes out he can see what species it is and how big the fish is. So we're heating up some oil right now because along with our fish we're gonna have some mushrooms and some tots. So here's what we ended up with. We just cleaned the we're gonna eat the smaller ones right now and then we'll take the bigger ones home with us. You're not Minnesotan until you've fried walleye filets with an ice scoop. It's a delicacy. Kirk right before we're about to pack up. Nice sauger though. Pretty nice sauger. All these lights you see right here those aren't that's not shore those are all fish houses. And we officially hit land.