 okay yeah keep bringing them in slowly inch by inch just slowly steady try not to hit the ice this is alex's game of inches what is up guys joe holland here thanks for tuning in this is the greatest fish catch i have ever seen through the ice in my life and even on youtube let me know if you guys have ever seen a better fish catch than this through the ice i was fishing with my buddy alex tim and cody hill up in northwest minnesota we were pan fishing some deep crappy and bluegill and all day long you could see in this live scope video we had giant either pike or muskie coming through and just tearing through our bluegill and crappy school and if we ever had one that couldn't get down because maybe we pulled it up too quick they were coming up and picking them off on the bottom of the ice and you know there's a couple decent sized fish here and then there's one like mega and sure enough alex hooks into them stay tuned you're not gonna want to miss this fight and then those are the the big ones no way you got them you got them loosen that drag a little bit i'm gonna try to get my camera out of there for you just keep it keep it loose awesome let's go because it's not that low but you what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna he's gonna burn you into the ice okay so you're gonna want to put your rod down lower oh shoot i know which way which way is it shoot there you go all right so if you burn you into the underneath yep just put your rod tip lower than the bottom of the ice okay okay and when he's letting you bring him back in bring him back in pike make long runs he pulled a lot so that was a long straight run yeah now you as much as you feel like you could bring him back bring him back i'm trying but when he gets close don't force him because he's gonna want to make another run so you'll do a couple rounds yeah so you're gonna want to just wear this guy out just keep pressure on him but not too much pressure so you're gonna want to wear him out so are you are you moving them yeah slowly cool we're on a good one here guys this is it this joker's been killing our pan fish by he's coming like five times yep so i'd almost loosen your drag one more click if you can okay good job the reason i'm leaving that in so we could watch the fight on on this too but if it gets if he goes that way let me know i'll pick this up right now he's dead this way and if you want me to move or you you want to come around the hole so you would just leave your the rod down the hole right now that way yeah for the most part yeah so that way i'm not so you know you're not hitting the ice right now with a fish this size and you know you're not hitting the ice i would do that for sure yep and then when he stops pulling put a little bit more pressure on him like trust your drag now he is not moving i don't know what's in the bottom of this like if you can wrap the yeah i don't know i have no glue either yeah so just keep keep doing what you're doing and we're gonna find him like there's nothing on the bottom okay that's gonna be fun he's pumped by far biggest fish of the day right here coming in the good thing is i've experienced with this so i can walk it through it but right now he's about 150 yards that way that way and what alex is doing is he's keeping his rod below the ice we're on pretty thin ice so there's no friction on his line and his line isn't burning a groove is he moving can you move it at all this might be a big fish he's not moving he he's probably laying on the bottom over there could be yes he's not like i don't feel like i'm wrapped around anything okay good so we got a two no cluster up this is a bullwhip that we've got i think this is four pound line on right now this is on a acme tackle mickey one of their new jigs tungsten jig with just a tiny little piece of plastic on it and we got uh i think it's a big pike we'll see here so it'll be a fun fight if we can get it to move so you might have to now click since you have so much go a little you might have to do two clicks on and just put a little pressure on not a ton like you don't want to break them off okay okay yeah now loosen it you got us attention holy cow dude this is crazy this is crazy i hope this is a big fish i mean it's gotta be right yeah i don't yeah i mean he's well fast 100 now fortunately we got a little bit more line yeah once you start getting low on line let me know how's he going now he's this way exactly a little bit more he's can you think he'd get tired at some point here i'm surprised he hasn't come back by the hole i'm making a little bit of ground i mean it could be a musky i don't know this body of water i don't i don't either he's fighting more like a musky than a pike in my in my experience i wonder if i snagged him too oh yeah maybe he did if you snag them it's going to be extremely challenging yeah oh yeah i'm coming back i'm he's coming back is he okay then make up as much ground as you can see if you can get him to come this way is he is he's making ground on you now he is i'll get him back though i just got to keep keep wearing them oh yeah that's the trick yep this is awesome this is why you put a little bit more line on your reel than you think you're gonna need so you don't run out make it up some ground i am a little bit he's not liking it they usually they're usually a pike will wear out i mean it took me probably 15 minutes to get my 12 pounder in on the same setup that you're fighting but you're doing the right thing just don't horse them i wonder if i got him snagged i hope you don't i know wouldn't that be great just right in the mouth even if they snag though it doesn't even matter this is an epic fight right i mean i'm pumped that this is happening this is incredible to me alex is this the biggest fish you've had on jig rod i think so sweet yes i think uh you're doing a good job taking the cake we'll see when we see it though yeah it could just be a weird hook up so the bend of the rods keeping them pegged you know on those big movements and the reason alex is keeping his rod down below the ice level is one it's narrow it's shallow enough ice we're only in eight inches ice but he's getting no friction on his line right now which is what we want i know it's a weird way to fight but so when he's not moving on you try to make up some ground but yeah oh oh oh there's a good wow he's still got some life to him this might be a musky this is awesome dude i know you're doing a good job keeping up thanks so you have gained and then you lose it huh yep i gained a little bit and then i lose it it's amazing he hasn't done a couple runs near the hole i know usually that's what i need i'm just swing back this way so i can pick up some life usually a pike i'll do that body oh good like usually a fight like this you snag something like mid and they got their whole head ahead of them yeah and you it's so hard to catch them but like this where he's doing these big shakes on you looks like a head shake like you can't get that off of off of back kody's gonna come back we're still gonna be fighting this fish gonna be awesome oh did you just hook into something right yeah 20 minutes ago this is okay this is this is great this is why you drive three and a half hours with three hour sleep right right here you never know what you're gonna catch guys check out alex tim on youtube for more content like this i can't say how much more of it there's a thousand people at home yelling tighten up your drag but they have no idea they have no idea how much drag is already and how hard this guy's pulling and that this is four pound fluorocarbon yeah and we don't want to we you don't want to tighten your drag no no you're doing a good job the only way we're landing this fish is if you wear them out yeah that's it yeah because i could tighten it up and get frustrated and then snap it right don't do that no you could even straighten the hook i don't even you know we're like higher hook do you well do you remember what you had on for this one mickey tungsten no way nice they're big one too good so if we get this out this is a testament to the acme uh new jigs that they just came out with that they can catch big fish too it already is it's not just a paying fish jig evidently already is a testament to right yeah the fact that it's hung on this long gaining on the strain not really no i'm bringing my sleeves up because i got a feeling i'm going in after him when he gets close yeah i mean we know if he's gonna run he's gonna see us and be like oh if he's not too tired i could go get my ten inch auger and make you a bigger hole but i don't want i don't know if that's a good idea or not we'll wait till we see him if he looks too big we'll let him run and pop a bigger hole you could pull a 25 pound fish through an eight yeah but if he's bigger we might have to pop on or connect these two holes gaining feel like a little bit oh he's turning way left he's heading to the deep i mean the way he's fighting it could be a musky i don't know but i'm finally getting a little line back yeah he's swinging around a couple times he got low on your reel i was worried yeah but it looks like you've gained that i've gained some back oh some pump for you dude thanks man i wish it was you no no i don't no my back would be sore no i would much rather see this is you this is awesome he's swinging yeah yeah he's swinging over here now i'm getting line back though like you can tell just by looking at my reel yeah you're doing the right thing 25 minutes yep every time you reel with it like that it's twisting the line twisting the line what do you mean so every time you spin like that yeah twist your line so you're gonna get it all screwed up i'll put a new reel on it when i'm done yeah i just want the fish is it hung up no no he's running 25 minutes yeah 20 to 25 minute fight so far yeah holy yeah he's been over there he's been over there and he's been over there yeah we need some action shots here we got it oh we got we got a camera i'm just gonna stay right yeah wherever you want probably over here and you could bring up your chair if you want i'm ready to land yeah we haven't even seen it yet no it's a big wall like when it i don't know well we don't know but when it hooked up it ran for a good minute or two oh yeah screaming we're trying to chase it with this but he's beyond 160 yeah oh yeah freaking and he's not stuck in the weeds no no he's no he's he's been running he's coming in out and he's gone there to there you'll see yeah like right now which direction is it this is the first time he's been over here because that was my fear is the islands that way yeah that he's wrapped around the weed no he's not wrapped on anything yeah he's he's been he's been running we got him down here for less friction because he's only got four pound test but if he's got to come up above to put more but we don't we'd rather wear this fish out i think it's a musky because pike like i've caught pike on a light year like this and i think it's a musky yeah i'm just going with musky unless you got him like in the eyeball i'm just afraid he's got to hold on something so we can you and i could go drill a hole over there with it and take this and see if we can find them i've done that before on big fish straight yeah winds picking up pretty bad too and they're kind of pulling towards me so you're not putting as much strain on the rod you want to try to open these two holes up i don't yeah i don't care i don't know i'm sure that i don't do it i'll just keep your rod this yeah i will this is the first time he stopped uh yeah the first time he stopped moving in 25 minutes so we're stuck a little bit here no nothing's happening yet no i was talking to the camera uh saying we're stuck can you put any look can you put any lever we're not seeing them hung up over there at all yeah can you keep doing that now reel down what you just got yeah reel your tip back down like reel down and then try to do that same thing like over and over you're gonna have to get them in six inches of time yeah now reel that down i just feel the line stretching is that's what it feels like oh that's what you're gonna have to move more of that way left cody he's making progress yeah see if you keep doing that that's making progress can you possibly connect these two holes yep but you got to stay away yeah yeah we got to get this out yeah i've done it now the wet boomer oh he's pulling dude this is a big fish i'm telling you how big do the musky get um 60 pounds inches but now i've got more room but you did put some pressure on them oh yeah why tighten up the drag a little bit too i just loosened it back up when you do the run good job let's see that's why i thought that connecting the holes like that yeah well this is good because now i can work on yeah bring it back in or should we drill another race hole for you i don't know if we want to do another race hole yeah i'm just nervous about that one okay you guys have laws in the state of obelisk nope they said wisconsin can't go over 12 oh really 12 holes 12 inches 12 inches oh eat but it might be a law like we spear in minnesota oh that's right yeah feeling all right oh yeah is it these coming around this way now yep he's trying to pull back yeah i mean it could be hooked in the top of the head like i've seen that before but yeah then it's like really hard to wear them out because they got their head in front of us but when you got the they don't have their head in front of them but he was doing head shakes on it that winds picking up bad out in open country yeah you're making ground that's what you want to keep doing yeah but just remember it's not real and down into them though the drag just keeps spinning the whole time i don't because he's just got pressure there was a point where we were really getting down their line yeah it was like oh i need to get the line back you got this alex try clicking up one more i mean you're gonna wear them out that's what pissed them off before i mean it could be a pike but it's fighting harder than any pike i've ever seen one hour later right that's exactly what this is going to be it goes yeah dude wait it wouldn't be a sturgeon right no sturgeon yeah minutes in i might go facebook live should i go facebook live i mean youtube live i'm gonna go youtube live all right guys we're live this is my first live ever i'm here fishing with kody and alex tim on alex and fishing we're 35 minutes into this fight we're here catching panties in northwest minnesota we've been smashing them all day i got my new pb blue gill i caught a couple decent crappy alex has got some really nice fish and kody's been wailing on on him too he's got four pound test four pound floral carbons this is a tuned up custom rod this is a uh this is a bull whip so this is usually intended for pan fish um fortunately enough line on the reel to let him take a few runs we've gotten we've gotten the ability to gain on him a couple of times but not the entire time unfortunately he goes for his runs but we're slowly gaining on him these extra holes are helping so it's either scuba diver or a big fish right we don't know if he got it in the in the mouth or not we think he did this is the this is definitely the all time record for the length of time fighting the fish i've seen through the ice so alex keep it up bud you're doing a great job he's turned another degree left because we were when you first got here kody we were like 25 30 minutes in and he was that way he was and now he's like straight seedways this way all right so that's the new alpha by ion it is the deal i will say that guys you know my you know how i love different setups that actually is the real deal we're just behind me they don't like 10 inch holes here i found out because everybody that i fished with is really shocked because i brought 10 inch auger well we come out blue gill fishing well this is why this is why i use the ten inch test and he's been putting some pressure on now the fish is actually a little bit more left it started this way and it's made a big circle we have not got it within 50 feet i don't think of the hole yet no one collector she's running oh oh oh look at that spoon look at that spoon guys look at that spoon of them oh my god keep it on that spoon you're gonna have to stop them if he if you get to the end of your line jeez oh my god this thing's heading for wisconsin what's the next day over that way okay come on iowa come on buddy you have an iowa fishing license no oh you're gonna be in trouble then dude i'm gonna call the dnr call operation game thief because this fish is in iowa right now get online let's get one ordered up it just we're 58 minutes and five seconds into this fight we're down a little valley right here we're very protected kody tell the folks at home make a list of what's actually in this from big from small to big uh we have yellow perch in this body a lot in this body water yellow perch large most small update bluegills multiple species crappies uh large most small moth walleye northern there is burbot toolby is musky this is a lake that guys will come to the area for musky sweet we're not gonna tell you the lake guys just out of respect for these guys that we're kind enough to bring me here and let me join in on their fun so that's the only thing we won't tell you but we'll tell you what he's using we'll tell you everything else you got four pound test i swear that market 140 120 keeps changing see it yeah we got the live scope on forward scan to see where it is i think alex has finally got tired my hand is cramping that's an hour and one minute into this fight through the ice he's cramping up guys he's cramping up give him his bang you can go a little bit i i think you can go over and now i'm going not we're going one click harder feel free on the chat there she goes oh yeah you you heard us feel them there yeah yeah you got his attention there when you click that one tighter this rod is getting a workout yeah tell folks at home what the rod is this is a tune up custom rods they're based here in minnesota this is a bullwhip it's a custom bullwhip with uh graduations on it to see how long the fish is but i have a feeling this fish is going to be longer than uh these graduations they're gonna need a bigger boat these are big head shakes guys we don't know if the thing got it in the mouth or not but these are big head shakes i think i'm getting a little line back he's gaining on the strain fellas leave it in the comments what you think this is i'm going to try to answer every comment if they show up but i don't know sometimes they show up sometimes they don't all right we are at one hour four minutes and 15 seconds into this epic epic epic ice fishing fight this guy's got some patience but he does need to get to work tomorrow yes a long of a permission slip did you get from your wife i'm i'm not waiting this fish wait this is live does she know you're fishing today yes of course okay okay yeah right yeah i should have asked you for a little while oh shoot no she's like well where's the divorce attorney yeah we do have divorce oh he's got two hands going on it guys you guys nervous i'm pretty good and nervous nervous he's gonna break not the rod the line you're not gonna break though i won't break there she goes every time he every time he gains on it like 10 feet he loses a hundred kody are you seeing anything like this i have not no we started this live at 35 minutes into the fight and now we are at an hour and 11 minutes we were at a point where we couldn't move it for a little while kody came back uh into the tent and he's like you got he's got to have your wrapped around some weeds or a log or something because it wasn't moving we just kept at it and said no we're gonna we know that's not the case and off it went again here it goes again i even went that way and yeah drill holes to try to spook it scuba diver i'm thinking just a pike but can't be a scuba diver he'd be out of oxygen by now yeah right kody what's your guess what is this thing i'm thinking a muskie i am thinking i'm going muskie that would be nice you just made up a ton of ground on this thing definitely make it up ground that's the only stuff you're gaining reel down all right so you're moving them now reel down real fast there you go you're poop oh shoot there it goes but that's how you're gonna gain all of it yeah so we know our dreg said okay yeah right there that's gotta be your fish all right that's this fish at 120 yep 125 but then if you guys are just too you made them mad oh it's moving oh that thing's running though yeah that's not that i can tell he's getting tired now finally all right don't make any mistakes keep keep your focus but he's finally got him tired after an hour and 17 18 minutes hour and 18 minutes into this fight yeah i'm not even here in northwest minnesota on seven inches seven and three-quarter inches of ice i still think he's at 125 feet yeah that's that's getting linebacked and it's not pulling out when i'm doing this okay yeah keep bringing them in slowly inch by inch just slowly steady this is a try not to hit the ice this is alex's game of inches this is alex him if you want to check out his channel as he's fighting this fish oh oh oh my god look it's a muskie it's a muskie it's a muskie it's a muskie it's giant you did it oh oh my god you got him hold on here let me switch spots with you rock let him have some i'm gonna let him have some now loosen your dreg loosen your dreg now loosen your dreg some oh my god guys it's a mega muskie i was gonna take it through this hole you ran him up again i'll grab him i'm gonna have to put the phone down live scopes out under you okay he's right here guys there's his tail keep can't keep filming can we see this on the gopro look at his muskie holy keep working him if you can get him one over here i'll take him through this hole there he is up here look at this muskie guys get him i'm trying not to hurt him no careful watch your hands that's what i'm i gotta i gotta give him a line yeah if you could back if he's going if you could back him up a little bit if you can't right here oh my god that is a mega that is a mega muskie i don't think he's hooked right but we don't care nope he is not hooked right but he's right there he's right there he's right there oh my god guys look at that on the camera look at this fish look at this fish this guy normally we're pulling him back he's coming backwards he's cody's coming cody's gonna grab him yep i'm trying can i see him there he is back back him up back i'm pulling oh my god i need like you know two more inches okay hold on go to the door he's under you yeah i gotta give him some line dude there's the fish there's the fish look at him oh my god this thing's a giant he's over here i'm just gonna keep him tight i don't want to get the wrong angle and let that thing pop out all right he's right under me now guys see him i was gonna go outside he's right here grab him yep i'll grab him here he is there he is oh my god look at the side of the fish you got him got him got him hand under him right yeah watch the hook watch the hook that's enormous oh my god i'm gonna get the hook out yep let's look look how easy that came out guys look how easy that came out oh my yeah i gotta get my hand situated yep yep yep alex has never cut my hands are shaking guys do you have him yep alex has never caught a musky before never caught a musky holy crap oh my gosh an hour and in 27 minute fight oh my gosh dude is this big is this big it's huge it's huge don't drop don't go holy crap okay that is a monster guys look at this musky on live holy smokes oh my god this is what just took us forever whoo what do you think tell me like i'm speechless i never would have expected this never caught a musky before today tell the folks at home all right man they have a shaking support i'm excited we gotta let this thing get back we definitely do all right see you later girl or guy or whatever you are probably a girl see ya just i would orientate her there you go she's fine there she goes look at that thing go it's swimming perfectly away oh my gosh i'm tired this is awesome pound it nice