I got out for two days last week. It might be the last time I fish on hard water for several months unless I can squeeze in a day of walleye or pike fishing on a border lake next week. There will certainly be plenty of ice. After a long snowmobile ride and a 2 mile snowshoe I got to one of my favorite trout holes. I caught several nice 4-6 pd trout on the second day. The first day the action wasn't as good but I did catch this heavy pre-spawn pike. The self timer went off before I was ready but I just wanted to get the big slimer back in the water so she could make a bunch of baby slimers. It almost felt like March and must have been 30 degrees out.

Nice jack!

i love ice fishing but i've had enough of this winter,i can only fish for pan fish now where i'm at. time to bring on some soft water. less than 6 weeks from opener, i dont think there will be much soft water off the gunflint come opener, hopefully i'm wrong.

Ill be sad to put the ice stuff away but ill be looking forward for the warm weather! Nice fish!

Nice fish.

People are still driving full-size trucks on many of the lakes around here. I'm used to using a plank to get out to the ice most years once April hits. Could be a cold opener, but it might make for fantastic laker fishing.

On the river's now. I really didn't get on the ice as much this winter myself. Looks like you had a good trip. Nice fish man.

Still plenty of ice in the metro, but I am giving up ice fishing based on principle :) actually plenty ice on the lakes but the access points are getting messy.

Nice pike.

T

Pike thru the ice are so much fun. Nice fish!