I am amazed at the vivid colors on the fish caught under ice. In the winter our fish are white coming out of the water. My water is green and most bodies of water are dark tannic but the fish looks like Casper.
I've found the same thing here in southern IL. Up north at my dad's place, everything is green and vivid. Down south at my mother in law's pond, it seems from thanksgiving to easter they are even whiter than I am, which is tough, since apparently the irish lost the ability to get a sun tan in their long, storied evolution.
Maybe it's the generations of whiskey in my family's gene pool, but I don't know why that happens with the fish.
-skinny
