Oneida 2022, Walleye or Die success! 2/26,27,28

[bulletbob]

Originally Posted by fishingbuddies

Oh man!! What a trip...so jealous. Out of what town did you guys launch? We were there bout a month n half ago.. apparently the wrong side of the lake for early ice. Constantia NY. Nothing in NJ compares to the beast that Oneida is. The weather will humble you! The walking and walking n walking to get to a spot is relentless.
Made men of us and made us appreciate our smaller NJ bodies of water. We struck out with walleye completely in 4 days and picked away at some fatty perch here n there. Any hints for nxt year? We are going back no doubt. Oneida is an amazing sight n experience. I need to get my boys on some EYES!!

typically you need input from locals,,, the lake is immense and the fish are not everywhere all the time.. Not sure if the OP and his crew fished blind, but if so, they are simply amazing. they had one of the best catches of hard water walleyes I have ever seen in 30 years of living in NY state.. Believe me, its just not that easy most of the time... Lots of time and effort needed for most ice fishermen on oneida....

[Hookmanski]

The NJF crew ALWAYS gets it done! Another awesome trip with the boys.

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

typically you need input from locals,,, the lake is immense and the fish are not everywhere all the time.. Not sure if the OP and his crew fished blind, but if so, they are simply amazing. they had one of the best catches of hard water walleyes I have ever seen in 30 years of living in NY state.. Believe me, its just not that easy most of the time... Lots of time and effort needed for most ice fishermen on oneida....

if you had hard bottom deeper than 10ft with perch around, i'd say you could've been in a decent spot for them. did you mark any and they just wouldn't bite? I think we caught most of our fish 15-30ft depth hard bottom jigging, very few on tip ups. I was there earlier in the week as well with the same deal pretty much at a different area of the lake. find some points or humps with a contour map in that depth range.

also, beware, there are random gas holes in the ice every year and if they get snow blown over them, they just become trap doors that you will go right through if you walk over them.

[Chrisper4694]

where the hell is my monster white perch picture!? why was it not included!? including yellows and not whites seems quite discriminatory!

[Rich196]

WOW, I'm jealous, NOTHING better then a trip with great friends going fishing. I love how you guy's live it up on this site. You guy's really show what it's all about, it's not just the fishing !! GREAT JOB GUYS !!!

[ScowardNJ]

Fun weekend for sure! We fished south shore, Canastota..All you gotta do is check your Navionics and find the structure. It takes some walking but once you get on some contours, drill in, hunker down and pound em. Bites came in flurries this time around. Huge thanks to this crew for all the cooking they did! We ate, drank, and fished like kings!

[Chrisper4694]

Here it is!

[NJSquatch]

Great Trip and even better company!

Day 1 - Slow pick for me but I managed to get my limit at the buzzer. Gave myself to 6:30 before I had to go and cook up the pulled pork dinner for the crew. I landed the last fish at 6:29!



Day 2 - I was the first one out and should have just setup the shanty rather than bouncing around. It took 3 of us to pin down/setup the shanty in 15mph winds. I have never experienced those lake effect squalls before but I swear I saw a wampa from the Planet Hoth streak across the lake. Had to deal with Chrisper in my shanty the whole day singing some stupid song from Home Alone 2 (his favorite movie btw) but we caught a bunch of quality fish.



Here are some videos if your interested to see how brain damaged we are.




Day 3 - Got up early and helped clean the house before heading out for a few hours. Back to the Day 2 crime scene and landed my biggest fish of the trip!

[icebadger]

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

Here it is!

YEA MAN that is a nice white perch well done

[Mikey topaz]

Looks like a great time guys maybe next year I’ll come along…..glad to see everyone caught and have a good trip