I chickened out on the big pond today. It warmed up with bright sun and when I stepped out on the ice for the second time it made crunching sounds every step I made. Not a good sign. I see some local guys went through today on a lake in Indiana. I think I made the right choice especially since I fish alone!

So instead I went back to the smaller trout pond where the ice is a little thicker, and I had jigged up a three pound male brook yesterday. I ended up taking out six brook trout today up to 4 lbs. 13 oz. All were moved to the new trout pond except for the biggest one that I accidentally dropped on his head! I was ticked. He could have been a 7 pound plus fish by next fall. He was in excellent shape and I could easily have seen him living at least another year. Other fish went up to about 4 lbs.
Two females and 3 males.

What was really neat is I could see them come in right underneath the ice. I love sight fishing! Used to sight fish for brook trout as a kid sometimes casting to schools of a hundred fish!

Caught them about a foot or two under the ice. It would have been really something if I could have set up the fish trap ice shanty but I wasn't sure if I should with the ice thickness.

Sorry I should have taken pics but with all but the one I accidentally killed I wanted to move these fish to the other pond ASAP with the least amount of handling.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.