HUGE lake trout thru the ice

[BigBassaholic]

I just got this video in a email, and WOW
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[Dfish]

Awesome video, its too bad that the ice we have to fish here isn't that crystal clear[]. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything you want in life.

[PACKFAN]

I'm glad the ice here doesn't stay clear, it's a bear to walk on even with cleets.
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[cheesechucker]

I couple years ago I was on current creek ice fishing and thats what the ice looked like. it was acually pretty scary. I like alittle snow covering the ice.
Great video thou, at first a dident look like it was going to fit up the hole.
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[WaveWolf]

[#500000]Is that a 6 in. or 8 in. hole?[/#500000]
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[FISHAMANIAC801]

Yes it is a pretty cool video for a handlined mack through the ice.. The video came from a link off of North American Fisherman and the guys who filmed it are from the JIGHEAD crew..
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[RDRRM8E]

20 lbs is huge? I've got video of a 36 that nofish caught this winter through the ice. That fish was a Dandy!
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[REPETER]

What a great video! Thanks for sharing that's why we all keep trying!
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[brendo123]

nice fish!! i was very suprised when they actually got that through the hole!!
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[TigerTrout]

[left]No way I'm out when the ice is that clear! I know it's stronger that way but I'm not big into the whole trying to walk on water.
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[Brad-L]

omg that is very cool! i would love to fish on a lake like that []
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[RyanCreek]

It's hard to say, but that fish looks closer to 30 lbs. to me. I've caught a mack around 20 lbs. and that fish is significantly larger than the one I caught.
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[RDRRM8E]

I guess they didn't weigh it but said it was "well over 20 lbs". When I first watched it, I thought he said "20 lbs". I'll buy that.

If I ever get off my dead butt, I'll get the video of nofish's fish posted. Very nice fish that was weighed at over 36 lbs.

I know one thing, depending who's holding a fish make a big difference as to how big they look. I have a picture of a 24 lb fish caught by my buddy's wife and it looks like it would go 30 easy in the picture.There was a picture taken while I was releasing the fish and the fish looks pretty insignificant while I was holding it but I'm close to 6' 7" and pushing 250 lbs so no fish looks that big.
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[Tigru]

Very Very Cool
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[IdahoNative]

what happened to the link? i was going to email it to a friend.
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[mtnman]

A fish size/weight debate on BFT? Could it be so?[crazy]
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[RDRRM8E]

Naw, never, BUT some of us have caught plenty of large lake trout so I guess that has a tendency to influence you to think what exactly is huge? 20 and 30 pound fish are nice but not HUGE! Huge is the 53 lber TarponJim's boat pulled in a couple years ago. To me, if it's over 40, that's special and huge! Ya, I guess I'm jaded!
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[mtnman]

I too have been very sucessfull , boating "plenty of large lake trout". I just get a chuckle out of some people always saying something like, " that fish isn't that big "or "your holding it wrong". It's like a comic strip, damn funny[laugh]
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