Icefishing of Rainbows

Kivijärvi, the place where everything happened.

This week I was planning to head to the sea after seatrout. But then the winter decided to come and I was chancing my plans. I was never been icefishing after Rainbow Trout before. So, I called to the owner of the lakes and he confirmed that there was enough ice to hold up one grazy fisherman.
Then I headed to supermarket to buy some shrimps (baits) and next morning I was driving to Perniö (located in Southern Finland).

There it is, my first icefished Rainbow Trout

I was been fishing for about twenty minutes when I had first hit. Sadly I didn’t hook that fish. But then, at the next hole I had another hit and this time I hooked up the fish and after a good five minutes fight I was caught my first ever icefished Rainbow Trout. That was a species number nine for the year.

I fished there for few more hours and caught three more Rainbows and lost one as well. That was a nice and refreshing day on the ice.

The gear I was using.

And hey, sorry about the quality of the pictures, they’ve been shooted with my cell phone. My camera drank a class of sparkling wine about a year ago and haven’t work at the cold conditions ever since.