Catching fish with bare hands through the ice

I saw the water move in a hole in my shanty. Up came a nice sized bullhead. It stayed their long enough for me to get my gloves on to grab it so I did not get spined. It was dang good eating out of that cold water.

 

Years ago in cedarville I had the same thing happen with a dogfish. Scared the crap out of me!

 

Must be fairly common. I had a bullhead do it to me once. I assumed oxygen was running low in the water.


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Never had that happen but have had a gar pike come up and nip at my vexilar transducer. I think it had something to do with the clicking sound the ducer makes.


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Shoulda made dogfish/bowfin tacos maybe kinda sorta. I caught a carp through the ice last year, probably shoulda ate it. Trash fish always taste better through the ice

 

Same thing happened on Lake St Clair to me last weekend. Dogfish. He looked hungry. Was gonna give him a piece of jerky but he slowly sank back down.

 

I am not sure but I think that catching fish by hand could get a ticket.

 

Well don't try that when there's a muskrat in the hole LOL! Loose a finger!

 

Muskrat Love!!

 

Very disappointing. I thought this thread would be about ice fishing with a can of peas and a baseball bat. LOL.

 

i have never had this happen but dogfish have a lung a lot like a gar pike so i am beting that they see a hole in the ice and are trying to get a gulp of air

 

my buddy n I were fishing silver lake (kent co.) on first ice many years ago, the ice was clear, about 2+ inchs. he saw a big gill laying side ways under the ice, he started spudding to get it out, n it moved about 5ft. a way, so he moved over n started spudding again, n it moved again so he spudded a hole about a foot n a half wide, n started chasing the fish around the lake with the spud till it came up in the big hole he spudded earlier, he grabbed it, a nice gill just short of 11 inches

 

I've also had this happen a couple times out of the same body of water. Both dogfish and both looked like they were trying to eat my tranducer to the fish finder. Very strange. Freaked the hell outta me the first time but I still grabbed it and threw it on the ice. Nasty little buggers......