Today I got out with my two youngest sons, Ben and Jon. Jon is an avid ice fisherman and fishes extensively in the three state area of RI, MA and NH. He's already been steadily hitting the ice for the last couple of weeks, mostly in NH. Ben is on "maturnity" leave and has some time on his hands. He also lives on lakeside property along a very productive shoreline so that makes things easy.
We mostly jig when we ice fish and that usually leads to a lot of fish and a lot of variety. Today we landed perch, pickerel, largemouth bass and yellow perch in good numbers. Ben and I were jigging small, 1/12 oz. Kastmasters tipped with fake, plastic meal worms. Jon, who landed the most fish, was using a 1/12 oz. grub jig. We cut a lot of holes looking for fish using my power auger, a real valuable tool when ice jigging. It's a trial and error game and we hit the jackpot after about a half hour of fishing.
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