Jon poses here with a mess of nice fish!
Fish Lake in January was really hot for us! Jon and I, and his cousin Chris, made a weekend trip to ice fish until we dropped. Which is about what we did! These splake trout, a hybrid between a lake trout and a brook trout, are very aggressive eaters and fighters. Their average size was about 17". Fish Lake is full of such fine fish. Including lake trout, none of which we caught on this trip.
We managed to find schools of perch both days we fished, and were also able to catch rainbow and splake trout along with them. This pile of nice perch went to the fillet table. We fished along the weed line in about 25 feet of water, and the fish were stacked in like cord wood. We threw back
a lot more fish than we kept, too. What a trip!
Jon poses here with a mess of nice fish!
Fish Lake in January was really hot for us! Jon and I, and his cousin Chris, made a weekend trip to ice fish until we dropped. Which is about what we did! These splake trout, a hybrid between a lake trout and a brook trout, are very aggressive eaters and fighters. Their average size was about 17". Fish Lake is full of such fine fish. Including lake trout, none of which we caught on this trip.
We managed to find schools of perch both days we fished, and were also able to catch rainbow and splake trout along with them. This pile of nice perch went to the fillet table. We fished along the weed line in about 25 feet of water, and the fish were stacked in like cord wood. We threw back a lot more fish than we kept, too. What a trip!