Well, it seems that most fish are NOT caught out on the ice.
To hear tell, that third stool from the end of the bar is the REAL hot spot.
There have been more fish pulled through the ice from that spot than any other I know of. And they're all BIG ones too. And only the biggest of the big ever get away, through no fault, I might add, of the occupant of that stool.
Lot a big deer shot off that stool too...