I met up with my friend Tom on Sunday morning for my last ice fishing trip of the year. There is still plenty of good ice, I'm just ready to switch gears and get into spring mode.

Tom met me at the house about 7am and we on a spot we wanted to try and fishing by 8am. When we started I thought that there was going to be some cloud cover, but it was not to be. We had bright sun and 31 inches of mecury, so needless to say it was a slow day.

I could not have asked for a better day weather wise. By noon it was 50+ degrees and get this.....no wind. That's a first for me this year. We fished for 5 hours and landed 4 pike and one pickerel. Perch were a slow pick, but between us we managed to get Tom enough for a good meal.





Some folks have been getting confused with the difference between lamprey hits and lymphosarcoma on pike. I got a nice pic of a lamprey hit for reference.

Lamprey:


Sarcoma in tumor stage:


Sarcoma in the process of healing:


Healed sarcoma: