Speaking of pickled banana peppers - If you go ice fishing on the bay or lake, put a small piece of the pepper on your hook. It was a really slow day fishing until I had a meat sandwich with some hot banana peppers, thought the yellow/green pepper looked like a lure. Put it on the hook and all hell broke loose. The other 3 people looked at me as I was pulling up whitefish one after the other. Also caught a lawyer fish. View attachment 93756
I open water fish a lot but haven’t ice fished in years. I spend most of my winter in my wood shop. Those lawyers are ugly but sooo yummy.