Did some ice fishing over the holidays and we got a bunch of huge walleye, but forgot camera. Fished in buddies shack and with the wood stove we had it up to plus 28 inside in minutes!!Yesterday we went out on the lake we waterfowl hunt on, thought it was perch we would get but got Pike instead!! We used light rods as we thought we would be fishing for perch and walleye not Northern Pike. Lost a few big ones as they broke our light line and straightened our hooks!! We now know to put a line in for perch and a heavier set for Pike, best bait for Pike is huge smelts on big sturdy Mustad Hooks. We are out of the deep freeze with a high of zero today. Seen guys landing beautiful perch and some big pike!!
"When you hear my third shot,..that's your signal to take em"
Duck
Miss or no miss, I saw him, I heard the wind whistle through his set wings as he came honking out of the gray west, and I felt him so that even now I tingle at the recollection.
Aldo Leopold