Icy Rainbow!

I’ve long been a subscriber to a couple basic principles regarding winter fishing that go something like this:

1) If you have to chop a hole in a river to fish, it’s too cold to fish… And 2) If you can drive your truck out onto a lake, well, again, perhaps there are better options to be considered.

Catching a couple ‘bows like this one, however, could make a guy like me change his tune. I mean, that thing is bigger than some the fish we call “steelhead” here in the Central Valley. Kenton Nichols of Eagle River, Alaska, sent in the pic and says that while he’d rather be fishing open water, ice fishing seems to make the long northern winters pass more quickly. Plus, he catches a bunch of really nice fish through the ice each season.

Hmmm, I suppose I could get into it, especially if you threw in a couple of warm adult beverages and a pimped out ice shack…

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