My daughter and I have been hitting the Ice a ton this winter

Here's just a few pictures of a small sample of the fish we've caught.


A 13 Inch crappie.


20 crappies that averaged almost 12 Inches




Our 1st outing of the year together.




Our 2nd time out.


This Is a 9 Inch bluegill. She was psoing with It when It decided to start flopping. She made quite the goofy face! lol!!




Her 1st ever sunfish while Ice fishing.












Of course ya gotta have a good cocktail when cleaning the fish!!

 

Very cool Schultzy! Love me some crappie.

 

Sweet, our ice has been piss poor all winter.

I can't wait till ice out crappie fishing, about two more weeks and we'll be out there.

 

Looks like a perfect winter to me. Good for you.

 

Nice catches! What are the blue box an black an red box?

 

Fish locators (flashers). The blue one Is a Vexilar FL-8 and the red one Is a Marcum lx5.

 

Nice mess of crappie for sure. Southern Indiana usually doesn't get ice that is good enough to fish.

 

Nice!! I've been watching the updates on FB, I can't wait to take my own boy ice fishing in a few years!

 

Great pictures, Love to see people getting younger generations into the outdoors

 

Cool pics Steve. We usually don't get enough ice down here to ice fish.

 

Looking forward to seeing your upcoming pics!!

 

Hah......I have guys stalking me on FB looking for my pike spots, so I don't usually share a lot there.

We spent three days and two nights out there and caught about 25 walleyes and 15 perch this weekend in the tournament between 3 guys. Threw most of them back but did keep a couple for the frying pan. No pike unfortunately. We soaked 10 giant suckers all day Fri, Sat, and yesterday but just didn't get the sun I'd like to see for a good pike bite. Usually that tournament requires a 45-50"+ pike to win, and the biggest measured out of roughly 1,000 guys was only 38", so no one was really having a great pike bite. Maybe next year.

A pic of the keepers in our homemade "livewell". We had about 24" of ice, we drill a bunch of touching holes down only leaving about 4" on the bottom and then poke a small hole in the bottom with a spud. Fills up with fresh water and usually keeps them alive for days, but it nearly froze them all it was so cold this weekend. Every one of those perch is 13"-15" and the walleyes aren't anything special.......16"-19", just good eating size. We did catch some bigger ones but nothing worth $$$ in the contest so we threw them back to spawn.



And a picture of our pike bait.........normally I like to get stuff a bit bigger but this was the best I could come up with on short notice. To give you an idea, this is one of those giant 120 quart coolers. Throw them in there with a plug in bubbler and you can keep them alive for months.

 

Nice pics and fish!

 

Looks like a good time. Thanks for sharing.

 

When is the fish fry Steve

 

Love the pic when the fish was getting away from your daughter.

 

Me too Tom!! So many thought she was crying, not my little ****.

Matt, I don't blame you for keeping IT quiet. I'm very much so looking forward to your fishing/hunting pics with your upcoming hunter/fisherman.

 

Great stuff, Steve!



And Matt...

Where did you say you caught those perch again? :D

 

way to go

 

I don't know why, but all I could think of when I saw the thread title was ice skating. I like ice fishing much better myself. lol

Looks like a good time. The set up looks like a place I could spend a day. Congrats to you and your daughter on the fine catches.