The first pike this ice fishing season

It is winter now in the west part of Swedish Lapland, but not here at the coast. All the snow rained away today. But me and my friends think that's good, because then we will have a better start of the ice fishing season. The reason to that is less snow on the ice and more light under, for the pikes hunt.

Today was me and Henrik out for the first ice fishing for pike this autumn. We had our friend Anton with us. He had never been ice fishing for pike before, so this was like a kind of guiding. Anton didn't have any equipment, so I let him use mine. Instead, I hide behind the camera all day. I and Henrik taught Anton how to do and soon should the first pike be caught.

The bait of the day was dead roach, which worked fine! The first fish on the hook was Anton’s, and he caught a nice one at 111 cm. But the pike was unfortunately very thin and weight only 7,61 kilo. No sad faces, a new personal record for Anton and a great start of the season.

During the day we caught a couple of pikes between 3 and 5 kilo!

//Markus, TeilusFishing