Ice Fishing 2005

This is the ice fishing crew this year. From left to right we have me (Troy 1), Troy Sandberg, Jeff Shaefer, and Shawn. Ryan couldn't make it but he did meet us at Northern Lights Casino the night before.










These are the fish from day two. You are only allowed four apiece so we had to eat the previous days catch. We ended up one fish short of our take home limit.












Here is Shawn and the "Big Hall" Anything between 19 1/2" & 24" you have to throw back and you can only keep one over 24" This one was close to freedom at 19 1/4" inches.

















Here is Shawn and his EEL POUT. It is a weird cross between a catfish and an eel. I guess you can eat them but not many people like them. We were going to go to the "Eel Pout Festival" in Walker this year but it was canceled due to warm weather. I guess the ice isn't too safe when there are 150,000 people on 12" of ice.