First time I ever went ice fishing was January 2018, and I pulled up a 4 lb 2 oz smallmouth that day. Since then, I've been dying to pull up a good largemouth through the ice. Got a good one finally last sunday, 3 lbs 3 oz. Not a giant, but still my biggest largemouth through the ice. Best guess on my previous ice PB was about 2.5 lbs, and that's being generous to myself.

The idea was to hit up a pond I knew really well from open water fishing, and see if that info could help put us onto some bass after we swung and missed on them the last 3 trips out. Had two tip-ups that caught all of our fish. One was setup shallow off of a steep bank on the northern side, have had a ton of success fishing that spot right after ice out, so figured it would be good on a day like today with it being warmer than usual and lots of bright sunshine. That's where the 3-03 came from. The rest came on our deepest tip-up setup in the deepest part of the lake, at a meager 23 feet.

For those that want to just see the bigger bass, skip to 8:00 to just see that.