I only frequent the Saltwater Forum and I wanted to post this for my friends here…
My brother lives on a beautiful lake in Townsend, WI…Pickeral Lake, approximately 120 acres, spring fed from an adjoining lake, with a maximum depth of about 12’ and so it has the ability to freeze over at times killing all but the hardiest of northern pike and yellow perch…
Anyway…
One of his grandsons has ice fished with him numerous times and recently he announced to his classmates…
Danny has pulled a 41" northern pike out of that lake through the ice and I have been with him trolling spoons and spinners before sunset during the summer, catching 15-20 good size pike in an hour or so just having fun…
Two years ago I was there in February in the dead of winter ice fishing…
Had tip ups about 50 yards from the shore…
Threw dead minnow baits on the ice after we re-baited and walked back to the dock to sit…
A native bald eagle swept down and picked up the bait…
We walked back out and I was amazed to see the width of the birds’ wingspan in the snow on the lake…even saw the talon marks in the snow…
It is a remarkable place, gorgeous in the summer, incredibly cold in the winter…