Ice Fishing Pics


Shaun_300

Recommended Posts

Today had to be the worst day weather-wise to ice fish, but fish wise our best! grin.gif Today's high was -24c, with 25mph winds, so the windchill was -36. crazy.gif But since our ice shack is heated with a woodstove, we can keep it about 70 degrees in there. cool.gifgrin.gif

We have two holes inside the fish shack. Today was a bright day, so I could finally get a picture to show you what it looks like down the hole. This is in about 9 feet of water, the pic isn't totally clear but you get a general idea how clear the water is. It sure is neat to see a 10 pound pike come in for the bait. cool.gif

holeview.jpg

This shows you how cold it was out there, my uncle caught this fish and within 5 minutes it was frozen as stiff as a board. crazy.gifgrin.gif

tomspike.jpg

Here's my uncle re-baiting the line after he caught the fish above.

tom.jpg

The view from the shack at about 5:00 this evening.

sunsetattheshack.jpg

Here's a pic of all the northern's... grin.gif

6pikejan15.jpg

And to top it all off, Gran offered to cook me up some fish for supper, man it was good! grin.gif

yum.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Re: Ice Fishing Pics

Ruth, yep they're just limber sticks! grin.gif We have the bait about a foot off the bottom, then we tie a loop in the line and put it on the end of the stick. Then there's about 8-10 feet of slack line by the hole which is attached to the main spool which just lays on the ice. The fish take the minnow and pull the line off the stick, then the 8-10 feet of slack gives the fish some room to run, if he wishes to run more, that's when the spool of line comes into the picture. But usually by the time we get to the hole they don't even have the 8-10 feet of line pulled down. It's a pretty slick setup. grin.gif

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.