Ice fishing season is here!

Over the past couple of weeks since hunting season ended I have been on the ice with my friends catching some fish.  Walleyes mostly, with a little bit of crappie action mixed in.  It's fun to get out there, the early season ice bite is usually pretty good.  

Here is a big walleye I caught with Jamie Bruce while he and I were on a scouting mission checking out a new lake for crappies.  We didn't find the crappies that day, but we'll be back!  

Jamie with a big walleye he caught while we were filming a segment for Fishing with Gussy on the Winnipeg River.  It was a beauty!  Caught on one of the new Northland Whistler Spoons!

This is how we travel when we head into the back lakes for on our scouting missions looking for new places to fish.  Pile everything we need into our Frabill shelters and go!  On this day we went into a small crappie lake and caught some GIANTS!  I don't have any photos to post but we did shoot a nice TV segment which will air in March.  

This reel is the Cadillac for ice fishing - a new Shimano Stradic FJ - rigged on a Frabill Ice Hunter 38" heavy rod - the one I helped design.  It's a great combo for lake trout and walleyes!