I had a bad experience on the ice of my pond Saturday. My friend and I were ice fishing with about eight inches of good clear ice. I had on a big catfish that was taking awhile to land and he backed up to get his line out of the hole. He got about four feet from me and DISAPPEARED! It was about 12 feet deep where we were but he managed to get up on the ice and back to shore! I was dumbfounded, as I knew I was on good ice. I managed to gather up our gear and took him up to the house to get warm. As we were driving up there I said "I guess we are done fishing!" I am so grateful everything turned out so we could have a good laugh. We think that someone had drilled some holes behind us a few days before that were rotting through. 40 years of ice fishing and have never seen anything like that!