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Broz,
Thanks for sharing the ice pics from this season! Never made it out. :(

broz,
I notice the fillets in some of you pictures on another thread appear almost bleached white. Do you bleed them or is it just how they look from that water body?.
Sorry for the lack of...

Who better to bump last years thread off the page than me . :crazy: The Fire Pumpkin jig is going to be winner again this season. Real busy so i will update here this season when possible good...

I never had much faith in the hair jigs as there seemed to be a lot of short strikes , the sink rate is too slow for the deep water, and they tend to freeze up when out too long. On a whim I tied a...

Just happened to check back in , I call it fire pumpkin. It is 1/16" oz orange head tied with calf tail hair. The ones that did all the damage were yellow over orange, but I don't think the color...

Put that machine on the trailer and head down here. The wind is gonna blow for 3 days :Doh: and with all the new snow and slush we can't get to the good basins. Nice going Bee , sometime ya gotta get...

Mid to late May depending on the water body. We don't fish the spawn. Too many other bigger species are peaking then in the Estuaries. Would be like "shooting fish in a barrel" though.

They moved about 20 yards over the course of 3 hours. That is just a sample. The night before we never moved from the first hot holes. Even called in the nearby group to join in the action. It will...

Went back tonight. They are all over an ugly hair jig I whipped up on the bench. I'd be happy to share it is there is enough interest/ response here.
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Running a tad bit smaller than usual , but the numbers are there. Got a nice white perch too. Bee look me up if you are going to be down this way.
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But at least we got on the ice this winter. still not locked hard enough to get on prime slab waters and it may not.
We actually saw a real Ice Fish tonight , but couldn't get it to chew.
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Where ever ya find um just before it ices up is usually where you can still find um under the ice. The bigger fish we are after seem to go on very selective feeding binges that only last and hour or...

Not sure what kind of curve ball the ice gods will throw at us this winter so we have been scouting out some new areas so we have it covered. If the southern ponds don't freeze hard , we will have...

The 4200/ 5200 would be the "best" choice for this application. But; epoxy would work fine. A little trick for removing exoxied in hardware, heat the bolt or screw directly with a high powered solder...

Put my name in the hat too!

hope it hasn't closed yet.

Well, that was it for this season, only got on there that one night. It had just frozen to the point we would call sketchy at best , then the next night it rained and got warm. Never really refroze...

The arctic blast got us back on some virgin waters, but it may only be for a short time. No true slabs tonight, but a few around the 16" mark. Same deal as a few years ago, find um roaming the basin...

Might as well give it a shot.

A few comments on lite bites, the spring bobbers actually help us detect a hit when the weight of the presentation is absent. The fish will inhale the jig and the spring bobber will unload signaling...

Here in the north east, we frequently find both a minnow pattern and a lava pattern going on in different parts of a water body. Water temps have dropped into the low 40s and the fish are schooled...

Here is some more info similar to what we are doing here in the North East.

The Search For Giant Slabs - In-Fisherman

Gentlemen,
I respectfully disagree with the statements that northern waters will not produce many fish over 15". While my experience is limited to pursuing panfish only during cold water seasons...

If you have a little time, conditions are almost perfect for open water scouting. Use you boat and sonar to mark schools and near by structure in the deeper water. They are schooling in the winter...

Getting near that time again. We have been doing a little scouting. Lot of quality fish on the feed right now, but nothing over 15".
The Hurricane in Sept. and Oct. snowstorm has kept business...

Almost time to put her back in!!!!!!

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Let me know if you guys get board with these pics.. A few more tonight; should be good for first and second in the IceShanty.com Tourney......till my next trip:D.
The bite is starting to slow, but...

I am currently using 4 lb mono and fireline on my crappie jigging set ups. One is rigged with a plain fatboy jig that is used for live shiners when required. My main stays are a 1/16th Forage Minnow...

Still on um!!!!!!!!!


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A yes ,the old submersible light debate. The simple answer would be none of these fish were taken with a submersible.

My opinion on um; simple again , they rarely hurt the bite, sometimes appear...