First Time Ice Fishing

Northern pike one of my favorite eating fish, under five pounds not so much, over that and the fillets get solid and flakey. I like to class them with halibut for texture and eating. The bigger they are the easier to fillet clean. You can cut the Y-bones out and leave yourself with regular looking fillet not pieces. We either fry them or boil with onions and spices and serve flaked with browned butter(recipe from eastern Germany). I try and take a trip to northern WI for week of northern pike fishing. My BinL lives there and I keep a canoe on his boat rack. My biggest is 22# 42".

Bluegills are awesome that was a nice batch you caught. For most of my life with my dad we spent a lot in f time on the local water with our flyrods and poppers chasing bluegills, if they got to 10# you'd never land one, I did catch a dinner plate size one on a hand line as a kid for m Okauchee lake in southern Wisconsin and another on a full sized Jitterbug fishing for northerns in Stumpy lake just east of Hawley MN. A big bluegill will stick in your head forever.

Looks like you had a fun day.
 
Congratulations, Tex, a day fishing is good for the soul, especially after a long hiatus.

Fished mostly salt water, but as far a fresh water, favorite was white bass. Salt water prefer fried speckled trout and redfish on the grill.
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I've been thinking about bluegill fishing, one of my grandpa's would take me up to Silver Lake near West Bend WI for a weekend of bluegill fishing, he had a cabin there. First stop was the Milwaukee river to catch helgrimites and crayfish for bait, then to the cheese shop, they had there own ageing cave in the limestone behind the shop and get a big chunk of blue cheese and a hard rye bread, caught a lot of big bluegills. Fun trips for a grade schooler. Still love blue cheese on rye.
 
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