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Went 1-1 today nice male caught on a custom jig, was caught and then releas-..wait no kep-...no ehh I forgot lol ;). Also, first fish of 2016. Photo Credits: Tizzo
 

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Holyyy ****t now that was some risky business! got to my buddies pond about 11 am and to my disappointment found about an inch and three quarters of ice deff under 2.. sooo I poked around about walked out a little ways, poked a bit more and found consistently about an inch and three quarters and I was staying on top... drilled 2 holes then walked about 20 ft away and drilled one for my buddy... dropped the flasher in the hole and started fishing.. 5 minutes In I got a nice perch then we each got a couple fattt grosss lookin rock bass alright perch on the ice fish biting and were still dry.. 10 min goes by and neither of us have fish on the screen so my buddy goes to drill another hole about 30 ft to the other side of me he gets most of his way threw the hole and the wholeee pond spidered... I dropped my rod and scampered away from my holes back toward land my buddy quickly and flat footedly fast walked his way back toward land him self... we both looked at each other smiled and then went back to fishing our original holes... that lasted a few minutes with nothing so my buddy punched 2 more holes on the other side of me success no cracking that time... im bored of my hole at this point and want to find the school sooo of course I punch another hole toward the middle of the pond.. again no problem tho super sketchy.. little time goes by and Im not marking on the new hole so I go to walk back to my original hole and for about 20 feet we could feel and hear the ice cracking under my feet with each step I took... ok back toward shore I go.. my buddy and I at this point are talkin about callin it and that someones getting wet today.. i then tried to walk toward my original holes that were just ahead of me and still had a rod in 1 and again the ice cracks... back it up again.. check the weather on my phone and its 34 degrees.... lol.. just as i read the temp out loud again the pond spiders... a gooddd one lol.. we both fled the pond a looked at each other and called it.. we then stripped down layers and stuff from pockets to take our last walks to retrieve the remaining rods flashers and auger... i got on my chest and reached out for the rod that was still in the hole with weakened ice around it grabbed it got up grabbed the auger and flasher and briskly walked back to land lol.. all in all im gunna call it a success as we got on the ice both caught fish and stayed dry! only got to fish for about 45 min before wet jesus shoes were imminent.. if we stayed anyyy longer one of use was goin in, sorry that's not how the story ended ;)

Howed you guys do today?
 
You were asking to fall through. It's actually quite frightening and life threatening.
no doubt swamp, first time i went through i was 15 and had hockey skates on my feet.. while we were definitely pushing limits and half expected 1 of us would get wet i never felt my life at risk.. had the grappling hook sitting on shore near by, dry cloths in the truck 50ft away and my buddys house about 100 yards away.. again this was a very small pond and we were only fishing 7fow... To syndicates point, none of that's going through your head while the ice is cracking beneath your feet! lol.. was a definite rush tho that's not what i was after... had made plans to fish that day and while the ice was less then i hoped for it was enough to hold us for a while so that's what we gave it... until it wasn't lol...

PS. Definitely not the smartest choice to stay on after it started talking to us, or going on period but im a junky when it comes to this stuff and i needed my fix!! Problem is that taste was just a tease!
 
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