Finally popped the ice cherry!

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Finally popped the ice cherry!

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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! :lol:

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Followed the Ling up with a small Sauger.
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Tight lines!
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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!
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Atta boy Jonesy..

Keep up the good work. Great report. It gives me hope.
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Congrats.. great start :) You will always remember your first 8)
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That was one hungry fish. Congrats
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