Long weekend fun, Ice fishing

Our family went north for the long weekend and the ice had improved over the last week to 8 inches so we put some effort into ice fishing.
We got on the lake Friday afternoon at 2:00 and fished until dark. We were a little rusty and lost a nice laker at the hole as well as a couple whitefish.

We returned in the morning and the first hour was slow. My son landed a nice 2.5 pound whitefish to great things started. We were fishing tip ups with spreaders on bottom and a minnow two feet up as well. I finally got a turn and landed a three pound laker. We had a steady stream of bites with some being landed and others coming off right at the hole.It’s hard to get those three way spreaders up an augered hole cleanly . We ended the morning with two similar sized lake trout and three whitefish. The next morning my son and daughter went and got three more whities all about 2.5 pounds.

On Monday morning my son went to a backlake with friends and caught two beautiful splake on minnows as well. We packed up in the afternoon and headed for home. Here’s some pics.

Saturday mornings catch

The setup

Whitie grabbers in action

Another

Another

Another

Monday splake

Sounds like an awesome weekend, great set up I like that a lot!

That will be a few nice dinners. That first picture is beautiful.

Great setup you got there. Whitefish are escape artists at the hole.

love your setup as well


great job on the catching


looks just beautiful there

sounds like a great long weekend. Don't know if I like that pattern from the side of the hut, even the picture was hard on my eyes

I love this

Congrats on a fun and successful weekend !