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Hello all,

I haven't given an update on my pond in a little while so I thought I'd share some photos from ice fishing it yesterday. It took me a couple years to figure out how to get the trout to bite consistently through the ice but I found that fresh trout roe tied up in what we call a roe bag works by far the best. I think it could be because it's very dark under the ice with all the snow on top so something with a lot of scent is important.

I ended up catching a healthy rainbow and a skinner looking brown. I kept the brown and it's stomach was very full of isopods as they usually are in the winter. The ice has lots of slush on top because of how much snow is pressing down on it. Most of the lower layers of snow turn to slush even in well below freezing temperatures.

Hope everyone is having a good winter.