First Ice Trout - Mother Nature’s Amazing Colors

[Zip-in-Z]

Scott & I went out yesterday to check the ice conditions and see if the trout were hungry. BTY day, sunny no wind, 0C, found 5-6” ice close to shore & 4" over deeper water with some flood water in spots. Had a great time with great company we did better than expected, the afternoon to sunset bite was fast & furious caught a variety of colors, they came in all different sizes with lots of stocking stuffers, all went back for our next adventure.

A few pic’s … enjoy.

D.




BTY Sunrise to start our Day.


https://i.imgur.com/2VUMQnb.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/Lv7Coyj.jpg`


Found 5-6" of Good Ice.


https://i.imgur.com/RpEqaY3.jpg


First Fish of the Day ...

https://i.imgur.com/qFtNP8I.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/aRQjhrZ.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/Vnqpw41.jpg


Caught a Number of Male Brookies ... Brilliant.

https://i.imgur.com/kUBixhv.jpg

Caught more Bows than Brookies perhaps 5 to 1.

https://i.imgur.com/Idjnf49.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/4VbFApB.jpg


Took me 5 years here in Ab for my first Brown ...

https://i.imgur.com/yLMhSiB.jpg

Last year Scott's Brown was a Monster, it went back, too.



https://i.imgur.com/LVN0o2t.jpg


Our Largest Bow, took me some time to convince it to come up for a pic.

https://i.imgur.com/kGQy3E5.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/Eek87Xr.jpg


The End of a fun Day ….


https://i.imgur.com/2gfHZch.jpg

[RACKER]

Great catches but even better pics.Looks like ya had a great day on the ice.This is what ice fishing is all about.Thanks for posting

[Scott N]

the colors on brookies can be amazing.

[pikeman06]

nice work boys. Thanks for sharing your nice day.

[SamSteele]

Looks like a great day!


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[OL_JR]

Excellent. Haven't fished there in a bit but interesting that brookies in pics 2 and 4 seem to have no black spot. Last time I fished there every single brookie had black spot.

[58thecat]

Wow...all on the same lake?

[B00MER]

Looks like a great day. Thanks for the pics.

[SNAPFisher]

Great report! Congrats guys.

[Jigsalot]

Great pics. Nice way to start the ice season.

[Zip-in-Z]

Tks all ... last year we had larger fish, this year we caught a lot more, mainly between 2:30 pm & sunset, pleased you enjoyed the pic's.

58thecat .... Yes, all in the same lake, that was the first time in past 5 years that we caught all three species.

Cheers

D.