My Son is a sniper, Lakers fishing

I took my son for a Laker trip on Lake Joe for the first time. He is 10 years old and has never fished Lakers up to this point. The day started off very excited even though it was late as he slept in. We got out on the ice, and I set him up with a rod and a graph and a hole and walked away to set up two more rods. I just finished tying lures on the two rods looked over at my son and the graph and noticed a huge fish on his tube. I watched the rod load over and set into a nice little keeper for the table.
I didn’t even been there five minutes and the little guy already had a fish on the ice.
He fish that hole for about another 10 minutes and we hadn’t marked anything so we moved to another set of holes I had pre-cut. I set them up in those holes with a graphing his rod again and started walking away to pre-cut some more holes. I didn’t even get 20 steps away and he’s yelling “dad I have another one”.
15 minutes into the day there he is smiling away, and said “Dad I have my limit.”

Days like this are memories that never fade.

On the day we caught 8 Lakers in about 6 hours on the ice and lost 6 more.
I also managed to fluke a big smallie out of 55 FOW. Good new was it went back fast and strong. I hate catching smallies in deep water.

2nd keeper

Right on! The same way you’ll have this one ingrained in your memory, this will be the one that stays with him forever as well. That first lake trout is usually the ticket to catching ice fever.

Nice memories. How thick was the ice. We often enter from Foots Bay.

The ice was great. Not sure how it will hold up though.

5” black with 1” white garbage ice on top. By the end of the day the white ice that was crusty on the way out was soft and melting.

Great report. Nothing more important than spending time with family. Teaching the younger ones skills, and about the fishery is just as important as school. No limits to knowledge.

The smile on his face is "priceless" CONGRATS...

Hooked for sure now

Congrats on a great day out, sounds like your son is a natural!

That’s an awesome lake to learn how to catch lakers…. Speaking from personal experience. I miss those trips.

LOL Nick
Don't forget you had some well seasoned Guides

Nice work guys! My sons first lakers were also on Joe. Although he caught a nice pike off the dock last year so now hes all about the pike. Great memories for sure.

Great trip. Fishing with kids......can't beat it. I got 1 grandson hooked with less than that. One outing catching rock bass and sunfish did the trick. Now he wants his dad to get up early to go on the lake. I'll take the blame/credit for that.

Catch any more keepers? What was your weapon(s) of choice?

Great report Disco, congrats to your boy

Thats awesome Disco.....memories for sure....and he is whooping you....lol.

Arnie