cranberry mixed bag - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

icebadger · #1 01-31-2018, 08:46 PM

hit cranberry lake today to see if the fish wanted to play nice.the lake had 5" of ice and it looked solid. i was able to get 12 yellow perch ranging from 6 to 11",one white perch at 10",6 friggin slime darts

1 lmb at 14 and a half inches and 3 pumpkinseed sunnies. the fish were in 6 to 8 fow and were close to the bottom. i got them on both tip ups and on the jiggin rod. the ice was making the normal noise in the morning then was making a different noise later on. it sounded like sleet hitting a tin roof strange, but i love when the ice is making that growing noise

with colder temps at night lets hope we can get back what we lost with the warmer weather in the past couple of days.all in all a great day on the hardwater. i will be going back thursday with a friend to do some more fishing on his birthday. i hope the fish are still playing nice then

bunker dunker · #2 02-01-2018, 08:39 AM

nice Badger,sounds like a good day

Skunk City · #3 02-01-2018, 09:37 AM

Sounds fun, got to love the mixed bag that ice fishing offers. Crazy though how no one ever gets any Pike there!

FishOnKV · #4 02-01-2018, 09:37 AM

Sounds like a solid trip. Good luck out there today. Come on ice!!!

baetis · #5 02-01-2018, 01:47 PM

Why the frowny face for pickerel ?

Completely underappreciated fish that saves many an ice fishing skunk.

FASTEDDIE29 · #6 02-01-2018, 01:49 PM

Gotta love the Slime darts Badger. The big ones win contests!

JDTuna · #7 02-01-2018, 02:21 PM

Nice mixed bag!

Never fished there, but what is the deal with pike in that lake?

NJSquatch · #8 02-01-2018, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JDTuna

Nice mixed bag!

Never fished there, but what is the deal with pike in that lake?

Unicorns

icebadger · #9 02-01-2018, 08:37 PM

you can keep the slime darts. i don't like those bony, toothy,lure trashing,tasteless,eating machines... i don't mind a skunkin, if slime darts are the olny fish that would save me from a skunkin i would rather catch nada.. and as for getting first place with a friggin slime dart,let someone else get first place that is fine with me... i caught so many of those things as a kid growing up and lost so many lures that i had to buy with my hard earned money. as a kid money was hard to get and losing lures just pissed me off

sorry folks slime darts get no love from the icebadger.

FASTEDDIE29 · #10 02-01-2018, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by icebadger

you can keep the slime darts. i don't like those bony, toothy,lure trashing,tasteless,eating machines... i don't mind a skunkin, if slime darts are the olny fish that would save me from a skunkin i would rather catch nada.. and as for getting first place with a friggin slime dart,let someone else get first place that is fine with me... i caught so many of those things as a kid growing up and lost so many lures that i had to buy with my hard earned money. as a kid money was hard to get and losing lures just pissed me off

sorry folks slime darts get no love from the icebadger.

Hahahahaha! The Badger is pissed! I like you when your angry Badger!!! Wana cuddle? Maybe share a Snickers Bar? Friggin Slime Darts! You feed em to the birds I bet, LOL!!!