Sunday Post-Snow Pike 1/24/16

[Chrisper4694]

I don't think enough emphasis is being put on the face plant! I mean we were out there all day with nothing to show for it. I was expecting it for me I was only using big bait, but jdtuna had picked up some shiners and he deserved to catch his first ice fish! He took off running like a kid on Christmas and his legs just couldn't keep up with his upper body! Bam face Plant! Awesome! And congrats again!

I went out again today with robs leftover normal sized bait (thanks again) just to catch something, totally exhausted from stomping around in the snow yesterday. It was a mob scene so I just left the area and did some exploring. Ice was good everywhere I checked but got significantly thinner about 100 yards to the fresh ice in the middle. Only managed 1 pike which joined me for a terrible selfie.

Still sucks to walk through but not as bad as Sunday.

[Andrushkin33]

JD,

Congratulations on your first ice torpedo. That's a great looking fish there.

And Chris, man good to see you finally landing on some hard water. And landing a fish. Awesome buddy.

Andre

[bigboy5522]

Chrisper nice seeing you yesterday!. Glad to hear you got some pike, all we got was pickerel

[Chrisper4694]

Yeah good to see you man, I had to go way out for just average sized but what can you do!?

As far as the electric drill, with the current ice 4-7" you can do 25-30 holes no problem on a fully charged healthy 9ah battery. I carry a spare battery in case. Once the ice gets thick 10" plus with crap snow on top the efficiently goes way down. But I just bring a small marine battery with me if I'm going to be swisscheesing a place mid season and run it directly off that all day. It does the job, but they make much better ones now than the one I have.