Cool Cat Saturday!

March 5th 2005


FishingMinnesota.com had their annual "Cool Cats" ice catfishing get together on the Horseshoe Chain. I've wanted to do this an finally did.

The Plan: Get up early and put in tape at Jenny's to record Bass Saturday and then head to Sullivan to try for Tullibee and then leave for the Cool Cats by 8AM.

The Execution of Plan: Too tired! Slept in till 9AM; ohh well that's what I get for overextending myself.

Was on the road by 10 and at the event just before noon. They had a huge turnout but the bite was almost non existant unless you were there early. Cyberfish and The Pistol hadn't caught anything. So we fished, schmoozed, ate food, I won a door prize of a "card" of Scenic Tackle Glow Devil Spoons, not to be confused with Custom Jigs Glow Demons and took Pattie Lou for walks and played fetch. I would say there was close to 100 people at the event.

Finally as the sun was going down we started to get some action from College Outdoors Guys favorite: Rock Bass! To bad Scott, you should have made the drive it was a regular Pig fest. Eventually Cyb and Pistol decided to leave, probably around 7:30 or so. On their way out they stopped at the only other house left, and he was starting to get Cats. I went over and talked with The Chemist .

Anyway, sure enough he had gotten two for his kids and was packing up. He said I was to deep and should come on over and so I did. I got set up and immediately had fish come in, but then my lantern died and so I went and asked if The Chemist had a bottle of propane I could buy. He was had two partials that he gave me for free along with a couple of spoons that he thought would work. The Chemist and I talked for quite a while, nice guy.

Anyway, I finally did get the lantern back on and started fishing. The fish were not as eager to show up, Ooops talked to much. First fish was another Pug Bass, What!. I then lost what had to be a Cat, major pull! Then I finally landed the 1st Dude, a 22"er (pic above). He came in about 10feet of bottom in 24' of water and just smacked it, biggest one of the night.

Here's others before camera went kaput!





Got all the Cats on the Pink Glow Devil (as you can see in pics) that I had won as a door prize earlier in the Day. I got something like 4 more and probably 5 or so more Rockies. I headed off the lake at about 1Am. It was a blast, those cats sure do put a bend in ice fishing pole.

Thank God for GPS or I might have struggled getting off the ice. I did not mark the access but just being able to know which way was which was huge. It was so warm that the vehicle trail had all but disappeared in the warm weather of the day and early evening.

Big Thanks to The Chemist and the people of FM.com.