Ice fishing for nice pike

[Mark Knapp 0]

My Cousin and her boy friend invited me out on a fly-in fishing trip to a remote lake in the Tanana River flats for some pike fishing through the ice.

We immediately started catching fish as soon as we got to the lake.

This one was the first one we caught, a 33 inch 10 pounder.

We set tip-ups in half the holes, this one just got bit.

We fished the rest with jigging poles.

This is a cool tip-up. Lights start blinking when you get a bite.

The crew, and the fleet.

This is the average size of the fish we caught.

My Cuz. and I. We Kept these five out of the 16 the three of us caught.

On the way home, the airplane started acting up. The mixture wouldn't lean out. It was necessary to land in Nenana.

The guys pulled the carburetor off and found that the bumpy ice surface on the lake had jarred the carburetor float and broke a hinge tab. We kind of expect a little bit of trouble every time we go out but we seldom expect airplane trouble. We always expect a good time even with a little bit of trouble.