RE: first fish in hand......
i still have yet to get my first fish this year....sad sad sad.... I fished quite a bit at christmas time when i had a few eeks off and did really well. Since then i have gone twice and have gotten skunked both times. Hopefully i get out again ice fishing, we only have till end of the month then the season closes. I am headed back home this weeekend but will probably be to busy with the calving season to make it out on the ice. For the last few years i had fished on weekends and even after class while i was in university but the lake i was fishin had a bad winter kill and it really hasn't been the same so i don't even bother going now while i'm at university.