Quick Afternoon Outing on Rainy Lake

My son Joey Dougherty came home from school yesterday afternoon. We opted to drive out on Rainy Lake and do a little ice fishing. We drove out about eight miles found a reef edge to fish on. We were having a great visit, how is school going, have you watched any hockey games, what are the plans for spring break, a good visit.

All of a sudden Joey says here comes a fish ( we were fishing with a sonar unit that shows the fish when they are below), it chased his Northland Buckshot spoon, the fish turned the red mark very wide and then smoked the jig. Looked like a pretty good fish by the rod bend. I thought it might be a large pike. Joey said" it feels bigger than the 28" walleye I caught with Michael Waddell".  We were in 37 feet of water, soon we could see a very large walleye down below the hole. Once it started up the whole it filled a 10" hole! Joey slid his fingers up into the gill cover and lifted a dandy 10 lb walleye out. How fun it was to see Joey so excited. We took a couple pictures and slid her back down the hole!