Ice Fishin

[Arisk]

Went out ice fishing this Monday morning and was marking tons of fish. Got a few crappie to bite, were about 8" or so. Then when I was jigging maybe 10 feet off the bottom I had a fish come shooting up from the bottom and nailed my jig. Wasn't to hard of a fighter but it was the first Pike I've ever landed on hard water or soft so it was pretty exciting.

Then a while after that I was marking a couple of fish up off the bottom so I tried jigging above them with no luck. So I dropped the jig down to the bottom trying to get them to follow it but no luck so I went to reel it up off the bottom and I snagged something. I was thinking crap cus I didn't want to lose my lure but what ever I snagged was coming up so I was happy about that. When I was reeling it up after it got off the bottom a bit it shook its head a bit and I was like, what the hell did I catch.

Soon as I got it closer to the hole I could see the fish and it was a huge carp, and soon as I could see it it seen me and took off. Took like 30 mins to get it up into the hole and onto the ice since I was using 4LB test with a light action ice fishing rod.

Fish ended up being about 22" long and weighed 7lbs.

[MonacoSteve]

Very unusual. Carps normally have not much activity in winter and even do not feed. Congratulations!

[Arisk]

Caught my first walleye yesterday. Not a monster but at least its a good start.