"walleye & monster smallmouth" why, i do believe i have died & gone to Heaven! gotta get to the Religious threads & let them know it is REAL! 

I think carp fishing in the summer is great. Took my gf out for the first time last summer and she caught an 18lber. I'll be getting the rods out any day now.
no pix, bro, but i'm into ol' buglemouth bass ! i like to fish for them in early summer when mulberries are ripe. use a flyrod & "plop" a berry on a hook under an overhanging tree, & watch them lips come up! folks think a carp won't jump, hook one about 15# using twenty# leader so he won't snap you off, & watch those suckers leap...they will flat out churn the river up, LOL!AOH
ice fishing has its toimes but ive caught far more with more fun memories in warm weather , just that ice fishing is alittle slow around here . did go to lake gogebic this winter but not much action -huge perch though
i once caught a 40lbs white perch or drum as the locals call them. i have never seen one before and we caught it on a bigass bullfrog on a trout line.when i was 21 i caught a 40 pounder,i still have a pic somewhere.i used a scale,took my weight and then me and the fish,so it was not incredibly accurate,but it was 40 pounds give or take.i had to run behind it because it was spooling me.
in my area the winters are longer than the summers. the fish caught during winter are consistantly bigger than fish we catch in the summer. i usually only fish for walleye, and when there ice on the lakes 30+ inchers aren't uncommon where as in the summer you will never catch one over 22 inches. as for bass fishing when the top layer of ice melts in early spring and all that water starts running into you holes you catch 5lbs bass all day long. don't get me wrong i love fishing period, but i have better luck with ice on the lakes.
oh ya and good luck getting drunk where we fish...beer freezes in about 2 seconds.