Mega Ice Fishing Perch Post From Past 2 Days

[Mitch G.]

Well I'm going to try to keep this post a bit funny(pictures) instead of just my normal post of pix of fish........

Got a chance to fish w/ some more guys from 

this site before this weekend's ice fishing derby.....On Thursday me and my friend Joe met Pete 

and Jason at Greenwood in search of Muskies or whatever would bite.....Now getting there 

was an issue in itself as on our part there was a lack of judgement and I thought I remembered 

where the launch spot was...I f&cked that up...So a 10:00 meet time ended up actually being a little later due to

my lack of judgement...So we set out on the ice, and I see two guys ice fishing so we start talking to one 

of them and set up a few tip ups and I go to introduce myself to the other guy and say, "Hey Pete, nice to meet you"

and this guy looks at me and says I'm not Pete I'm Mario....We were like I don't understand?......Wrong guys!!!!....they pointed us towards

other guys at another spot, got on the cell and lo and behold there were Pete and Jason....FAR AWAY.....so we ended up walking(only 15 

minutes on ice) and finally meet up w/them by around 11:30.....d**n these guys are hardcore I could tell as soon as I saw the barbeque on ice!!

My kinda fisherman!!.....So they tell us they already had caught 15 perch by the time we got there and we were psyched...Hopefully Mr. Muskie would

be close in the area(ended up not being the case)....So we start jigging and setting off tipups and within 5 minutes Joe and I each had our first 

Greenwood Lake fish thru the ice...Started the fun of the afternoon off and by days end we caught @ 36 perch between us....Pete and Jason are AWESOME

guys and diehard fisherman......I brought Cherryaki Marinated chicken thighs and Pete made us Burgers.....It was alot of fun and gonna be fishing

with these guys alot more throughout the season.Here's a few pics from Thursday:

 

Me Pete and Jason....

 

 

 

 

 

Time to eat!!!

 

Gettin jiggy with it!!!

 

 

 

As we were leaving the lake at  sundown

[Mitch G.]

So me and Brad decided to go back and try for Mr Muskie on Friday and it was just a free for all madhouse.....When me and Brad fish together(I know him for more than 15 years and he is one of my good friends)

it's all about goofing off and joking around and catching ....We always get on the fish as we are both local NNJ guys who know the  lakes pretty well and so we just have a FUN day

on wherever we are fishing......Brad never has been ice fishing before so it was my goal to put him on something so he gets the bug.......I showed him some basics and how to rig up a tip up and recommended which 

jig I do good with, tied him up, and told him to jig and I'd rig up the rest of the tipups.....by the time I finished setting up the last one, I hear him scream like a banshee and see him reeling in something.

I figured it was something nice because how loud he screamed....Nah, it was a perch, but he was so happy he broke his ice fishing cherry, he went nuts...Believe me, this guy is a destroyer in open water and has 

caught bass up to 7# when we fish together.....Anyway,all day long we were cracking jokes as usual, goofing on our catches, and having fun......A flag even hit him in the face and cut his forehead and all we could do was laugh.

Ended up with 15 for the day in @ 4 hours.......Took some video and pics and here's how it went down today.....Looking forward to this weekend(I'll be there on Sunday at Monksville) meeting everyone....

 

Looking forward to Monksville on Sunday...Oh yeah, my wife made 5 quarts of Chili for us also...And today she's making cornbread...Hope you guys are hungry....talked to Eddie and he said he's gonna bring his

grill to keep it warm.......Here's a few pics from Brad and Me and a video also......See you guys on Sunday!!!....Catch em up!!!!!

 

Bonus videos:

Me getting jiggy

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=494592433995828&l=4205398144845928574

 

Brad w/ perch on tipup:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=494741613980910&l=1689045646677985902

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Better save your appetites, Debi made her famous 5 alarm Chili.....FISH ON GUYS!!!!.....

[Mrs. Matstone]

Great report, fish and pics, Congrats!

[roadwarrior]

Looks too cold to me. I like the chilli the best!

[Bluebasser86]

I've heard perch taste good but I always figured you filleted and cooked them first?? Looks like a good time, except for the whole being cold part. 

[Mitch G.]

Hit another NJ reservoir yesterday w/ 25 fisherman in search of Mr. Muskie thru the ice, but no luck.....just perch again.....oh well...NEVER give up!!!....beats workin'