December 29, 2007
Ice Fishing @ Question Lake
Today my brother took us up to Talkeetna to do some ice fishing at Question Lake. We went there instead of somewhere around Anchorage because the ice was thicker, they have bigger fish with less fishing pressure, and there are more places nearby to shoot guns. It was a fun trip. I caught 4 fish while my brother caught 1 and Timber also caught 1. It was a lot of work to get the sled with all the fishing gear out onto the lake, and once we were there we drilled a test hole and found that the ice was about 1.5 feet thick. Then we found a spot and drilled 3 holes (one for each of us). Then we set up my brothers ice fishing shelter and hung out while we watched the fish (mostly small salmon) swimming around and trying to eat our bait. Most of the fish were really small, so we had to change to smaller hooks. After our fishing expedition was over we tried to find a place to do some target practice with our guns but there were too many people riding snow machines (Alaskan term for snowmobiles) so it wasn't safe to discharge firearms anywhere. So we came back to Anchorage and called it a day. :-)