After keeping up on the ice reports coming in on Shirley, a buddy and I headed out just before sundown on Saturday for the evening bite. Feeling a tad frustrated from being skunked on our previous outing, we got our pop-up pegged, holes drilled and tip-ups baited just before dark. Being relatively new to the ice fishing scene we waited eagerly for our first hit. After being set up for about 30min, first tip-up pops and I'm grabbing the line setting the hook. As I'm pulling in my first catch, my buddy feels a massive hit on his lipless crank bait. Figuring this is a perfect story for a double hook-up for our first fish, we are hollering while bringing in our lines. As I'm pulling in my line, my friend's fish is just PEELING drag. Once I finally get my fish through the hole, we realize instead of the epic double hookup we pictured, we had in fact a slightly different double hookup.
Pulled this Ling through the hole - one hungry bugger decided to take both our baits and we were hooked into the same fish. Made for a great laugh!
Followed the Ling up with a small Sauger.
Tight lines!
Finally popped the ice cherry!
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Same thing happened with my son last weekend between two holes that were probably 100 feet apart!
Fun night.
Did you each the Ling? They are taaaaaasty!
Fun night.
Did you each the Ling? They are taaaaaasty!
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Atta boy Jonesy..
Keep up the good work. Great report. It gives me hope.
Keep up the good work. Great report. It gives me hope.
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Congrats.. great start You will always remember your first
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That was one hungry fish. Congrats