Haven't been on the water for two weeks and I was going crazy sitting in the house, so decided to join some friends to spend some time on the ice. Yes, I was that board
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Met up with some old friends and set up a number of tip ups, while this was being done, I made it quite clear that I thought we were wasting our time! Being my first time ice fishing, and seeing recent reports I obviously had very low expectations, but I figured it was better then sitting home again!
Much to my surprise, flags started popping! our first fish was a very nice pike! I figured we got lucky and that would be it. Low and behold, a few minutes later, another flag and another pike! Hmmmmm, this ice fishing isn't so bad
. after a while longer, it was my turn to grab the tip up. ran to the flag and no fish
, a few more minutes and another false alarm! Well finally it happened, someone yelled flag and off I went again, this time I felt some weight and set the hook. a few minutes later had my very first fish thru the ice! another pike.
By the end of the day we had eight pike and one pickerel. Dark came and it was time to pick up the lines, while retrieving one of the lines, I had the line ripped out of my hand! I yelled "fish on" and a few minutes later had a nice big pickerel! Great way to finish off a fun first day ice fishing! At the end of the day I personnaly caught one nice pike and two picks! Not bad for my fist time!
Thanks to my lurker friends for "hooking me up"!
Sorry about the picture quality, didn't expect to catch a thing, so I didn't bring my camera!
