February had Natalie and I heading up to Cascade Lake for some ice fishing. We ended up really having to hike out there a ways because of the low water. We finally found a spot that had some decent depth and we started drilling holes and putting out tip ups in a cross pattern. The last couple holes were for jigging while we waited to see what would happen with the tip ups. It wasn't long before they started tripping, but unfortunately most times there was nothing on the hook or they were dink perch. We started catching them jigging too...but with running to the tip ups non-stop it was a losing battle, so I finally pulled all the tip up lines and we just set up jig poles along with our depth finder.
Natalie was having a great time pulling perch up, it wasn't long before she really had the hang of it. It looks like she really had a nice one on here but I think she ended up losing it on the side of the hole as she was pulling it up.
She was a real trooper when it was time to pull off the ice for the day, she even wanted to give it a try pulling the sled back to shore...somehow I don't think that she ended up feeling like it was as easy as I made it look. She was more then happy to give me back the reigns after about 75 yards.
It was a great day out on the ice, beautiful weather, and a bonding that only a couple of fishermen...and fisher-gals can find together.
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