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Connecticut => Ice Fishing Connecticut => Topic started by: PerchMan44 on Jan 19, 2024, 06:30 PM
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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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/0zGmvnZ5/DEC3-B8-B1-1860-4786-9-CDE-51-ECA1-E3-A114.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0zGmvnZ5)
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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Mcn8JPbg/7582924-E-A7-B5-4-B89-B28-F-756579-E87-E60.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Mcn8JPbg)
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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/5YPvQtFX/1-C22-B879-64-CD-412-B-9-DD8-7-D7-A1-CD6-D56-D.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/5YPvQtFX)
All in all a very good, albeit rather late first day.
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Nice job getting out. Congrats on the fish. Is that a tiger or a brookie, pics don’t do it justice. Looks like a brookie to me. Anyways congrats.
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I’m sure they’re tigers because there’s no spots on either of them like a brookie would have and the pictures are not the best I will admit.
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Nice work on catching those tigers. Not a lot of those around and a real bonus. Good job
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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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/0zGmvnZ5/DEC3-B8-B1-1860-4786-9-CDE-51-ECA1-E3-A114.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0zGmvnZ5)
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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Mcn8JPbg/7582924-E-A7-B5-4-B89-B28-F-756579-E87-E60.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Mcn8JPbg)
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.
(https://i.postimg.cc/5YPvQtFX/1-C22-B879-64-CD-412-B-9-DD8-7-D7-A1-CD6-D56-D.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/5YPvQtFX)
All in all a very good, albeit rather late first day.
I’m sure they’re tigers because there’s no spots on either of them like a brookie would have and the pictures are not the best I will admit.
Nice trip icing the tigers 16” to boot