Two brothers found something unexpected frozen into the surface of a lake in Indiana: a pike fish eating a bass.

The Telegraph reports that Anton and Alex Babich found the unusual occurrence while ice fishing on Wawasee Lake near Syracuse in northern Indiana and posted a photo of it to Facebook, where it went viral, earning over 3,700 likes, 2,300 comments, and 15,000 shares.

When some people left comments wondering if the photo was real, they set out on a quest to dig the fish out of the ice and videotape it as evidence.

“A week ago my brother and I took a neat picture of these 2 frozen fish in the ice and posted it on Facebook,” Anton Babich explained to

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