Carter's First Ice Fishing Trip

Today (1/20) is Carter's second birthday and it just so happened to also be an unseasonably warm day.  We had temperatures in the high 40s so it was a great day to take him out for his first ice fishing trip.  It was also Norah's second ever ice fishing trip. 

Bill and I headed out early to get everything set up, then Carly brought the kids out.  We had a flurry of activity right away, then things slowed down.  At one point we had three flags up at one time with 2 of the fish being in the 30" class.

Norah caught her first fish on a tipup (with some help) and Carter somehow jigged up and reeled in a bluegill all by himself. 

Below are the pictures of one of my favorite ever ice fishing trips.

Fishing Club Ice Outing

January 13th was our first Waukesha West Fishing Club trip out onto the ice.  We headed down to the kettle on Nagawicka for some northern pike action.

I tried to convince the kids that we should move the trip to a different day because when we woke up it was -1 degrees with an -18 wind chill.  They convinced me to go and I am glad we did.  Action wasn't super fast, but it was enough to keep us interested.  We landed somewhere around 8 pike and had a lot of drops.  Strangely, it didn't seem as cold as it was and we had a great time.  I look forward to our next excursion. 

The pike were caught on Beaver Dam tipups with 40lb fluorocarbon leaders and a large shiner.  We were fishing from 3-10 feet of water.