Walleye Ice Fishing Trip Goes Pretty Wrong

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Sea-Money Fishing
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Published 2019-03-17
Here is some forgotten footage from the winter of 2019. I wanted to make an ice fishing trip with my 2 buddies somewhere cool this winter, and somehow we ended up going to upstate NY to target smallish keeper walleyes and burbot.. We had some guidance from a friend who has made this trip many times, and he said dawn and dusk were the times to get the walleyes… pretty much, before 9 am and after 5pm the bite would be on. well by 9am the first day, having marked only a couple fish and caught 0, I realized I had made a huge mistake. The fishing in my local area was pretty good at this time, and here I was 5 hours north for multiple days on a lake that was fishing poorly. Catching one random 17” walleye in the 9 o clock hour didn’t help my mood much as I knew that was just a small gift from the gods and nothing more… we caught some perch midday before getting a couple small eyes at dusk, but by the end of day 1 I was ready to tap out. 24oz Bud Ices from the gas station saved the first day… Day 2 I was more confident. we strategized and decided to hit a different part of the lake, and now I had some confidence in technique so I figured we were going to do well. wrong. I marked 1 fish all morning. by 8:15am I was ready to leave. we moved around a bit, marked nothing except one 11” perch which we released, but we opted to go steelhead fishing for the afternoon. No waders, no steelhead rods (we did have 7’ jigging rods)… no steelhead arsenal. basically we failed. the only fish the 3 of us caught was Kurts Brown trout, which was on the morning of the 3rd day. So thats it… all in all I have virtually blacked this trip out of my memory and as soon as I got home I went out and caught more and bigger walleyes in a few hours, 15 minutes from my house than I did in a day and a half on this frozen lake 5 hours away.

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All Comments (21)
  • @AverageCitizen333
    Ahh the content I wait paitently for, thanks for making the vid! Always love watching your adventures dude!
  • @big_k4122
    Sea Money!!!!! Please don’t stop making content, I absolutely can not wait for some summer fluke fishing, and striped bass content. I have a cabin at the Jersey Shore, i would love to fish with you sometime. Cheers my dude.
  • @snaggershane
    that black stuff in the holes is oil from snowmobiles, that steelhead you found is thiamin deficent, after being faught out many times, they swirl around then die.
  • @jamesireland9188
    Always enjoy your vids definitely cool seeing a new upload can't wait for the spring vids. Have a good day and stay safe Jimmy from Massachusetts
  • @paulthomas3738
    Just came across your channel and am impressed on your dedication!! Fished with you a small handful of times with Tan and Jude way back. Was on the original P.AC. forum. Good to see you still out there bro. Keep it up!
  • @mikef6227
    Sea Money you have been my favorite fishing youtuber since I started fishing some years ago, keep up the good work
  • @fishinfool4204
    Way to salvage a trip. Sometime you get them sometimes you don't oh will that s fishing enjoying time outside with your buddies is priceless brother.
  • @richardcatalinajr.369
    4:10 "I was pretty much done by 9 o'clock . . . I was so mad, I was so mad." Pretty much me on every fishing trip!
  • @Mark-yn1gr
    You still killing it bro, no need to burn excellent footage
  • @Epicmodernfishing
    No way I would go ice fishing(scary) but you guys make it fun & safe. Great video as always...
  • @shawnmarla9663
    Awesome video as always bud. I’ve ice fished all my life and have never seen any black sludge like that
  • @dantheman4956
    I even enjoy what you consider a bad video. Thanks for uploading
  • @andrewhirtle3525
    Dude with a misfits back patch? I knew you were my kind of people!
  • @csralumni
    The one F-bomb you bleeped out must've been pretty bad...lol
  • @RalphBarton-fishing
    Assuming you were in Oneida, I'm in the Binghamton area of new york, about 1hour and 20 minutes to there.. I've got buddies that go and ice fish there and are always grinding my gears to go.. I'm always like why?? I get more and alot bigger walleye right here in the Susquehanna River five minutes from my house.. One trip you should make next year is the Oswego River, we hammered walleye, browns, and steelhead there a couple months back