My Northern from todays ice fishing adventure...

[Thorpe]

Caught a northern today... (I know, you are thinking... AND???) Drug this guy in on a small crappie jig and euro larva, on a Frabill panfish rod, with 2 lbs test... 22" long! (no scale in the shack)
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[D-dub]

Nice Northern Pike!.... Do you guys call them "jackfish" for slang, as we do up here?...anyway Im getting real antzy for some spring time Walleye fishing!

[racer....X]

nice fish! Ive went ice fishing here in so illinois a few times but never even got a bite.

[coolpool]

Nice work on 2lb test! 22" long should be in the 5lb range I think.

[Thorpe]

Nice Northern Pike!.... Do you guys call them "jackfish" for slang, as we do up here?...anyway Im getting real antzy for some spring time Walleye fishing!

No one calls them jackfish to my knowledge, around these parts....

[D-dub]

[QUOTE=Thorpe;967884]No one calls them jackfishQUOTE]

Thats what a Northern Pike is commonly called in some parts of Canada

[beets442]

Not a bad catch on a small rod. Got this bass on a tip uphttp://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u104/beets442/0109111214.jpg

[coolpool]

Bass through the ice? That's not normal is it?

[WIkid500]

I love catching pike. Everyone loves pan fishing, me I'd rather catch two or three pike and make dinner out of them fillet out the Y bones and you have fish that is as good or better than pan fish, best part it's about 1/3 of the time to fillet the fish out.

[beets442]

Bass through the ice? That's not normal is it? Yes, you can catch bass all year. I release most of my fish and just keep gills and crappies. All fish have to eat.

[hang&rattle]

I saw this thread a while ago, but couldn't find my pictures. Came across them today, didn't come out very good, had to take a picture of a picture, no way to scan. Anyways you can get the jist of her (think it was a female). She was a little over 33" long. I don't know what the Northern Pike weighed, we had 2 huge fillet steaks about 1/2 hour after I caught her, lol. I caught her on that tiny Panther Martin with 10lb. test. Took me quite a while, maybee 5 to 8 minutes, that's actually a long time to get one in with all the reeds and underbrush. I didn't have a steel leader either, usually they cut the line with those teeth. She was barely hooked in that corner of her mouth, fun!**Warning** - I'm pretty so don't gaze to long upon beauty or you may strain your eyes, lol, just messing with ya fellas! LOL!

[Thorpe]

You are pretty Hang! (jk) Nice fish!!