Ok, I am going to be slamming my post for the past two week up here in the next two days. I am sorry I fell behind, but family and fishing come first... I have ventured back to my little pike pond a few more time even got my South Texan wife on the ice. She was not impressed with me when I drove "Her Truck" onto the ice. She was pale white for a few minutes. We were joined by Brad Durick of www.Why-fish.com and Kent Hollands of www.trophycatadventures.com with his son Kolby. After Brad proved to Crystal that there was plenty of ice (33 inches) we proceed to make a huge box pattern with a X in the middle for our tip-up spread 14 tip-ups in all. It wasn't long till Brad saw the first flag fly. After a quick match of flag fight I ripped lips on a nice 4lb northern Pike. Crystal finnaly got out of the truck and we took a nice picture. Conditions that day were 18 degrees partly cloudy and a slight NW wind. Total 14 flag glew and 8 pike were ice and released.

Check out www.Whyfish.com episode 102 for a little more on crystals first trip on the ice.

Esox