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If you're in an area even the slightest amount of cell service, ice fishing without your phone is about the stupidest thing you can do.
The most serious blood-letting injury I sustained was while lifting a 33" pike through a hole. I do not own a gaff, rather I just slip 3 fingers under their gill plate and lift them out. Well, this pike was not close to done thrashing yet and whipped its head sideways and produced 5 or 6 evenly spaced slices into the tip of my middle finger from the interior of its razor-sharp gill plate. Bled like crazy and took a couple of weeks to heal. I love to tell that war story and even started a joke that I invented a new style of fishing called " ICE NOODLING "