Fishing in frozen lake!!

Whenever people here in Stockholm were mentioning that they were doing fishing in Frozen lake I was trying to imagine myself how they can fish and how to crack the ice lake and what if the ice breaks and what we fall inside and so many other questions..
Fishing is a hobby of many people here, they have a very good knowledge on what kind of fish they get during different timings of the day and all..

Well I have never done fishing in my life before, But yes I got a chance to do it this winter. It’s a different experience.
It was a gloomy and chilled Saturday morning, our proj manager invited us to an outing, well he never mentioned to us about anything where he was taking us!! We all sat in his car and he was just driving all of us and finally stopped near one of the frozen lake and he said we will do fishing!! Even in that gloomy day we were all exited as soon as we heard about that , Then he started removing different fishing tools from his car and was explaining about them one by one, Ice driller, Fishing thread and hook etc, Finally we all walked down to the lake in that snow filled slippery road, He showed us how to do the drilling, It was approximately 1.5 feet ice which is farmed on top of the whole lake and was really very hard, initially couple of others were scared what if the ice breaks and we get sink in ;-) anyway nothing happened like that and it was strong enough to hold all of us and much more :)

Yeah finally we also managed to make a hole, was not so easy though! as soon as we made the whole the water from inside came out and we were very happy as if we completed the first mission, Well we had that fishing thread with a florescent blinking hook to attract the fish inside the lake, so we dropped that and were waiting for the fish, none of us could get the fish, however our manager caught the fish, and we were so happy as if our final mission completed.. We took photo holding the fish before it dies as we dint wanted to trouble the poor soul anyway!! Finally we left that back to water in a safe state confirming and reciting “Ahimsa Paramo Dharmaha!!!