Desperate times, desperate measures and a 25" Brown

[troutbiscuits]

One thing I really love about fishing is you never know what might happen.

Many of the lakes that I like to fish have debatable ice at best and I am not like DrCro or Slayer and willing to walk on 2.5 inches of ice. Not even for jumbo Perch.

So I went to a lake with a fishing pier and popped some holes off the pier hoping for some panfish.  Ended up getting my PB Brown trout on a 1.5 inch tube jig tipped with a wax worm. Sorry the pictures are not better quality. My hands were shaking and I wanted to get the fish back in the water as fast as possible.

[Hookerhooker]

Nice brown

[Gunflint]

congrats.

[wallydiven]

Beautiful fish and kudos to you on the release!!

[Noon]

Taking the safe route paid off in unexpected ways.  Congrats

[skifisher]

Well done trout, nice fish 4 sure! Congrats!

[Bigassbassman]

Wow! Ice fishing from a pier!  Did you use a flasher? 
Congrats on the PB.  Nice fish. 

[troutbiscuits]

Wow! Ice fishing from a pier!  Did you use a flasher? 
Congrats on the PB.  Nice fish.

Yeah I sure did use a flasher! Haha.

Thanks, it sure was a surprise. I was not expecting a Brown Trout at all... and especially not one that big.

[DrCro]

Wow! Ice fishing from a pier!  Did you use a flasher? 
Congrats on the PB.  Nice fish.

yea me and him fished that pier yesterday the helix 5 and his flasher do quite well from the dock and the area around the place is 10 feet so it’s perfect

[brown-time]

Hell yeah! Expect the unexpected. That’s “icing” on the cake!