January 16, 2010 - Ice fishing at Hidden Lakes
I only had a couple of hours to fish with the kids between tae kwon do and piano lessons. It was a big push to prep everything, get the kids out on the ice, punch the holes and get them fishing.
We walked in from the Chadburn Lake Road parking lot and huffed it over to Hidden #1. With sled and family in tow, we settled on the southeast side of the lake and drilled the holes. I had four kids out there with three adults. We decided to work five holes and set three up with set shrimp on small trebles and two with active jigs. The kids lost interest right away, which allowed the adults to actually concentrate on the fishing.
I jigged a small pink lure with a little shrimp for a few minutes and then handed it off to our youngest angler, Alex. Within a couple of minutes he managed to pull in a 17 inch rainbow. In fairness we helped him as the four year old was concerned that the fish would “bite him”.
It was a great day with two fish in about two hours.
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