Those trout look fantastic. How do you fight them through the ice?
As I mentioned, we caught them on tip-ups - with 3ft long 4lb test fluorocarbon leaders. I let my son pull them in and he let them run when they wanted to run, and then pulled them up when they would come up and just took his time - pretty simple.
The larger one had to be gaffed to get it through the ice. I'm mostly catch and release during the warmer months, but when you catch fish like these on tip-ups from 80ft down, they generally get hooked deep, so it's pretty much meat fishing. I've yet to catch one by jigging that deep, but I'm going to try!
