My two labs love to go ice fishing. Kelly my black lab(100LBS) is going on 3yrs old he loves it, I don't need a skimmer he gets right in there to get the slush out, and He hauls my sled w/ all my gear. He likes to run and pull so I bought him a harness and hitched him up to it and figured that would fixem' but oh no he likes it and looks forward to it, and gos hole to hole with me draggn' my sled. Every once in a while I have to help him out, he gets better every day. Joey my chocolate (75LBS)just turned a yr she hasn't quite figured out her job yet, but she does a pretty good job at catching the minnows in the bucket, only thing is she thinks that they are her own special dog treats. Maybe I can get her to pick out my bait
without eating them so they can go on the hook, maybe if she did, all the doggie drool would act as a fish attractant and I would limit out every time. only time will tell. I like bringing them, They're also good watch dogs and they seem to scare off the unwanteds