Finally got to hit ice in CT today, with how the weather has been it seemed like it would never happen.
I went to one pond around noon and caught nothing except two pickerel. So I moved on to another pond about a half hour away and began setting up tip ups, before I could grab the second tip up from my sled I had a flag and up came a tiger trout.
This was the first tiger I’ve ever caught through the ice and the third I’ve ever caught in my life.
The rest of the afternoon was pretty good with a few pickerel and a largemouth bass all on tip ups with absolutely nothing while jigging.
Once the sun started to go down around 5 I began to pack up and had one more flag, the fish made a massive run and pulled probably 100 feet of line out before I got to the hole. After a long while of hand over hand action I got a nice 16” tiger trout to end the day.
All in all a very good, albeit rather late first day.