Sports Men's Pond Athol (private Pond)
First ice fishing trip of the year. Was lucky enough to get invite to a private pond in Athol. About 4-5 inches of mushy ice. Arrived about 7:30 am set up 14 tip-ups and had 1 jigging rod (3 guys). Fished till around 2:00 pm. Caught 12 Largemouths, 4 Pickerel, 2 Perch, 1 Bluegill. Bluegill caught on jig, everything else took shiners. Fish bit very aggressively and every time we got to the hole when a flag went up the line was screaming out. One fish had taken very inch of line out before we got to him. Nothing huge, all bass between 1-2 lbs. Had something really weird happen at one hole. Had a flag, ran over and set hook. Fish took me into a snag and line broke. About 1/2 hour later, same hole, flag goes up. My son went and set the hook and fought a good fish right up to the edge of the hole when the hook pulled out. When he pulled the line out I noticed there were 2 shiners on the hook! I asked him why there were 2 shiners on the hook and he had no idea. Can only surmise that the other shiner was in the fishes mouth and somehow became hooked. When the fish got off both shiners stayed on the hook. Strange.