Epic Pike Ice Fishing Video
 

This past summer, my oldest son turned 16 years old and got himself a truck. He had 3 goals for this past ice fishing season. 1 - catch a big walleye; 2 - land a burbot over 30"; 3 - catch a pike over 20 lb....all without dad present. Him and his friend fished 47 times this winter and even though they caught a lot of walleye, they didn't get the big one they were after. They were able to catch quite a few burbot (including one over 30") and landed 3 pike over 20 lb (as well as many others between 10-20 lb). Unfortunately, only the last one was captured on video.

My 14 year old son has been making quite a few hunting and fishing videos and recently bought himself a drone....and on the last trip of the hard water season we had an epic day - 42 hits, 26 pike landed, a couple of personal bests for the kids, a 21.5 lb beast, many double headers and drone footage. All fish were released.

Here is the link to the video. I hope you enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrFm8V51Y

Here are some pics of my 16 year olds ice fishing season.
https://i.imgur.com/xgNRJvl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aYaVwzi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sl2A6uT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jPjCyHn.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/eAhuQxl.jpg

you boys just make me look bad.

I didn't land anything massive. Just small to mid size haha

They invested a lot time this year...because of COVID all after school sports were cancelled so they fished 2 or 3 times per week. They even went night fishing a couple of times....out until after midnight. Super excited for their success.

Great job Dad for encouraging a healthy passion and memories he will have for the rest of his life. Those are some nice looking fish.

Just awesome!!!! Great times had by all. Those southern lakes look fun.

They must have had a great teacher.