Fish jumps out of fishing hole!

[slipperybob]

LOL's

I'll like to say that I reeled the toothy critter out of the hole but really it wasn't the case. The guy really wanted to take a bite and only this time chase my jig far enough up through the ice hole and make a splash of everything in the Icecube. Well I did noticed that at one time he swamed right up next to the hole attempting to snap at my jig but only splashed his tail causing a stir of water and air bubbles. Didn't think he'll be coming back, but sneaky guy was either really hungry or totally annoyed at a jig dropping down an ice hole and swimming up through it. Must've said, "That's call I can stands, and can't stands no more." Opens can of spinach and .... There you go, fish flopping around on the ice. Got water splashed all over my LX5 and on the walls, not to mention myself after I inspected the aftermath of sliding pikey back down the hole.

Too bad I couldn't catch crappies this way...

[slipperybob]

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hmmm...What happened to the guy who had a muskrat come up his hole shannanigans? LOL's I know my situation was not as funny scary as his but, when you get toothy open jaws jumping out of your hole right at your face, your sleepy eyes tend to open pretty big afterwards.

Yep, a mythbuster this is. Fishes do jump through ice fishing holes. LOL's

[chaffmj]

Wow slipperybob that is amazing. How thick was the ice?

[Craigums]

thats crazy, did you know he was coming up the hole or were you just jigging and WHAM fish in the house

[Schloogs]

It actually came up and out of the hole? WOW....

[eyebjim]

Thats excellent. I had a walleye the other day that, in its rush to get away, swam up and out of the hole about 3 feet. It wasn't quite the same as yours because she had a hook in her. It was pretty cool though.

[ozzie]

I was fishing some shallow water and all the pike I would hook would jump out of the hole and flop on the ice unill they found a hole to go back down and then they would end up breaking my line and I would be left with only a house in disary with the heater getting wet and having to retie!!

[slipperybob]

The pike jump out of the hole after my jig, tipped with a minnow. There could've been two different pikes because earlier one swam right up to the hole. Did a 180 and off back in the direction it came from. I didn't realize how agile and mobile little pikes can be. Clear ice was about 8 inches thick. I had also did my angled trench hole drilling, so that might have just given the second pike just enough room to jump up through the hole. Now that I have thought about it. Ice was pretty clear around the hole. 8" hole plus the 8" trench is easy for 15" pike to come through. I guess that might have tricked the guy to think there was still water around or enough room for pikey to get away. Never had I ever had water splash out of a hole and a fish coming out from it not even hooked. Usually it's just the opposie, a fish getting unhooked and escaping down the hole. It was about evening and the sun was setting. All quiet and I'm the only guy in the IceCube on the pond/lake. I didn't catch any crappies that day. I did ice one bull head. LOL's on a minnow.

[mr_jman]

Good story, and I just wanted to say you're not the first to experience this. Mine was slightly different though. I was pulling up a bluegill and got it just out of the hole (I was kneeling on the ice) Almost instantly a northern jumped out after it. He only got about half way out and went straight back down. It sure made me jump though!

[slipperybob]

That I say sure wakes one up! Toothy jaws jumping out of the ice hole! I haven't had notherns snatched a hooked panfish while on the ice, just not yet.

I keep thinking about that one thread about the walleye/football catch ruling...LOL's.

I didn't catch the northern, he jumped out of the hole onto the ice...LOL's.

[Kyle Sandberg]

I think I'd have an accident if that happend. Something similar like that happend to me in open water and I just about fell out of the other side of the boat.

[slipperybob]

LOL's and when you're in the canoe going downstream on the St Croix, you hear something following you from behind. You look and see only water swirls and boils. You paddle some. You hear a small splash, some more water swirls and boils. You start to wonder what's in the deep pools of the St Croix. You get to the spot next to the rock walls and figure it's not a norm water current that's flowing, it's really following you for a few yards now. You're heart beats faster, and you start to paddle faster. There's all of a sudden a big splash from behind you and a screaming smalley jumps right into your leafy camoflaged fatiques that you're sporting today. You're canoe rocks and you scream! Argh!!! You're relieved as you'd thought the lochness monster or the kraken about snarred you. Dang' the fishing pole was hanging out behind the canoe with that purple power bait worm hanging from the tip, teasing that smalley the whole time.

[eyebjim]

I had a scarry incident in a boat. We were fishing maybe 50 feet off a steep wooded bank. It was after midnight and a very nice but very dark night in late june or early july. We heard some rustling in the woods and then a plunk. We brushed it off as a rock rolling down the hill and into the water. About 15 minutes later we are very quitely fishing when there is a massive splash on the back side of the boat (portside) away from the bank. This was immidiately followed by another on the bow and another at the stern. These were not just splashes they were like if you took a canoe paddle and hit the water as hard as you could with the flat side. We pretty much filled our pants. After our hearts started to beat again we figured out what it was. Apparently there were some very large beavers that didn't like us that close to their youngsters. We decided we should do as they suggested and get outta there.