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How Finding Fish in Open Water Leads to Better Ice Fishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkhDG6YKB78

I don't Ice fish. but who does this Kind of mapping?

I have a fishfinder like this
have never fished for kokanee in Dec. at strawberry may need to buy some tire chains and a lot of salt ICE melt
if the weather will let me make some maps and recordings and way points.
may not catch any fish. but have fun getting cold.
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Looks first class in preparing for ice fishing by getting choice locations.

I don't have that advantage. No boat. No automatic mapping software and sonar.

What I do is walk out onto the ice and pick a spot to leave most of my gear and then travel fairly light on foot making lots of holes with my 4-1/2" Nils auger and dropping in the transducer of my MarCum LX-9. If I see fish, then I fish. If I see structure or a change in the bottom that I can't identify, then I drop in it's camera and look at it to better learn what the colorful artwork on my screen really means.

If it is a change in the bottom, I'll make holes to identify the edges of the transition as I look for fish there and note those holes for fishing hole to hole, if I haven't already started fishing on top of fish holding in a spot.

I know that sounds primitive compared to what the guy in the video does which is rather exotic that can only be beat by the even better sonar of a Los Angeles class nuclear submarine under the ice with the advantages of a galley to cook the fish and a dining area to eat them and then take a nap and wake up to ice fish some more after eating your limit.

Ronald