I understand that this is every angler's dream. I get it. I get why. But to us non-fishermen it kinda looks nightmarish.
Still, it's pretty darn impressive:
While ice fishing in Canada, Sam Boucha battled a monster lake trout for nearly an hour before realizing the hole in the ice was not big enough for the fish, so her boyfriend Brad Molloy started drilling a second hole.
In the meantime, the fish spit the hook, but Boucha managed to plunge her arm into the icy water and grab ahold of the fish, and waited for the expanded hole in the ice.
Sam described the experience as a "bare-handed, arm down the hole to my shoulder, holding on to that fish until the second hole was drilled" kind of thing. And it's not hard to see why:
That's the kind of thing you expect to come blowing up out of the ice to destroy you.
The fish died, so Boucha plans on mounting it and putting it in a family cabin or in her home. She donated a pectoral fin and an ocular bone to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry for research and to get the fish's age.
