Ice bassin 2/8 with a PIG!

 Hit a local pond today with Josh and the walk through the foot of snow with a crunchy shell was probably the worst part of the day. Once finally at the pond we found about 7-8 inches of Ice. We each put out 2 tip ups and starting jigging away. First flag came about 5 minutes in and was my best fish of the day. About a 2.5 lb largie.  The flags were pretty spread out for the morning but the jigging for blue gills was amazing. At 1pm we decides to pick up and make a move.. Well I'm glad we did, action started quickly. 3 flags in the first 10 minutes.

Soon after, I look over and see Josh fighting a good fish on a small blade bait on a jigging rod and I could tell it was a bass not a gill. I started running over after he got his first glimpse through the hole and let out a wooooo! The fish kept head shaking in the hole as he tried to lip it and at one point i think we were both pretty certain that fish was gonna come loose. But it was meant to be today and this fish went 5 lbs on the dot on the digital scale. What a bass!  We left today pumped on the fishing. Ended up with 12 bass all keepers (10 on tip ups  2 jigging) and well over 50 Blue gills which were giving some great fights today! All released.  Great day on the water!  Congrats Josh!  That ones gonna be hard to beat on the jigging rod.