Ice Fishing Day 1

Ice Fishing 2019 

Day 1

Little Squam Lake, Holderness, NH

Walking out

Not too cold, about 20-26F

Got our buckets to sit on, packs with extra layers and lunch

The Group

Scooping ice after the hole was drilled

Setting a Tip-up Trap

First Fish a perch, and the first time she touched a fish

Waiting for a bite

First Fish perch

First Fish perch

First Fish perch

First Fish perch

First Fish perch

A good hole

First Fish another perch

First....Is that a fish?

Smallest of the day

Not his first, but the biggest of the day and the only pickerel.

He learned how to hold it because it has some nasty teeth

First Fish 

The egg sac burst out.  We learned that perch can't release their air fast enough sometimes and so the pressure will build inside. Either their gut busts open or the swim bladder comes out of their mouth.

Our guide showed us how to fillet the perch we caught, he made it look easy.  Even the other guides were impressed.  Thoughts of fish chowder at the end of the week!!