Nice fish young fella.. Wish we had some of those here.. Everytime one of those gets caught in a fish trap on one of our rivers it gets killed. The biologists will not allow them in our rivers due to the Atlantic Salmon.. They claim that they will hurt the salmon coming into our rivers.. Anyways congrats to you.. Ice conditions here is getting pretty bad in places on quite a few lakes up this way..

Yes, I consider myself a float fisherman. I almost always use floats for river fishing. I use a few different setups but they are between 9'-11' rods, all spinning or baitcasting rods. Hoping to get a centre pin. Mainline around 10# test, light leaders. I do not tie my own jigs due to the fact that I can buy these for about as cheaps as I could tie my own. I do tip them with waxies, some tip with rubber grubs, others none at all.

Dress for the conditions. It is actually warm the past few weeks, highs have been in the 30s. When the water temp gets around 33 or 34 degrees and you have a cold night, the water will freeze up or large ice/slush flow will occur making fishing very difficult. Cold doesn't bother me too much though, specially if I am catching fish.

Real nice fish & picts-& catching- congrats .