Sunday Post-Snow Pike 1/24/16 - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

Mikey topaz · #1 01-25-2016, 03:10 PM

Way to go man,👍🏻

joeya78 · #2 01-25-2016, 05:40 PM

How does that auger hold up all day out there? It looks like a battery not engine? I have a gas and drill bit auger which I love but the batteries don't last of its really cold

JDTuna · #3 01-25-2016, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by joeya78

How does that auger hold up all day out there? It looks like a battery not engine? I have a gas and drill bit auger which I love but the batteries don't last of its really cold

Chrisper should comment on that because it is his drill. However, I can say it's battery powered and ran all day.

Chrisper4694 · #4 01-25-2016, 11:25 PM

I don't think enough emphasis is being put on the face plant! I mean we were out there all day with nothing to show for it. I was expecting it for me I was only using big bait, but jdtuna had picked up some shiners and he deserved to catch his first ice fish! He took off running like a kid on Christmas and his legs just couldn't keep up with his upper body! Bam face Plant! Awesome! And congrats again!

I went out again today with robs leftover normal sized bait (thanks again) just to catch something, totally exhausted from stomping around in the snow yesterday. It was a mob scene so I just left the area and did some exploring. Ice was good everywhere I checked but got significantly thinner about 100 yards to the fresh ice in the middle. Only managed 1 pike which joined me for a terrible selfie.

Still sucks to walk through but not as bad as Sunday.

Andrushkin33 · #5 01-26-2016, 08:43 AM

JD,

Congratulations on your first ice torpedo. That's a great looking fish there.

And Chris, man good to see you finally landing on some hard water. And landing a fish. Awesome buddy.

Andre

bigboy5522 · #6 01-26-2016, 10:32 AM

Chrisper nice seeing you yesterday!. Glad to hear you got some pike, all we got was pickerel

Chrisper4694 · #7 01-26-2016, 11:32 AM

Yeah good to see you man, I had to go way out for just average sized but what can you do!?

As far as the electric drill, with the current ice 4-7" you can do 25-30 holes no problem on a fully charged healthy 9ah battery. I carry a spare battery in case. Once the ice gets thick 10" plus with crap snow on top the efficiently goes way down. But I just bring a small marine battery with me if I'm going to be swisscheesing a place mid season and run it directly off that all day. It does the job, but they make much better ones now than the one I have.