My brother and i hit up another lake yesterday looking for some slabs after having a slow day on the miss, there was 5 inches of clear black ice near shore and after walking a km to our spot the ice was still a solid 4 inches. After drilling a few holes it didn't take long to hook into the first fish, a small pike. Right after i released it i dropped down my jig and got another hit, it wasn't fighting much until it came to the hole and i saw a 3 pound largie, once it knew it was hooked it bolted and gave me a nice fight, i released it forgetting bass was still open, if i knew at that moment i would have took a pic
After setting up the hut we hooked into a few sunnies and my bro got a nice 25 inch pike on his crappie gear, once the sun wen't down the crappies came in but were very finicky, a lot of the time you wouldn't feel the bite but see your rod tip move up, without a light i would of missed way more fish. After catching a few slabs a school of brown bullheads came through, i caught my first 2 ever through the ice! No pics of them but here are the slabs
Be a lot more careful if you plan to go out this week, weather isn't looking too good
