Has anyone seen or heard of any pike/walleye activity at the Oasis end? If we used steel leader hooked directly to our jigs does anyone think it will hurt/hinder the perch bite[crazy]?
We will be heading out early Sunday morning and will be in/pulling a black & yellow frabill ice hut. Stop and say howdee![cool]
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[cool][#0000ff]The walleye bite has been nonexistent all year on Yuba...all over the lake. It usually is tougher in the winter, under the ice. Have not heard of anybody icing a walleye anywhere since the ice capped.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Almost ditto with pike. They are tough enough when they are shallow and actively feeding. When they slow down and go deep they are really tough. That being said, there have been a few pike hooked and a couple of small ones iced. At least a couple of pike have been hooked at the dam end, but nothing has been pulled out of the hole there, as far as I know.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Perch do not have macro vision. They hit the Hali jigs, with little chains on the hooks. They also hit the same thing in my version, with light wire between the attractor and the hook. You usually do not have to go ultrafine to fool perch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those who fish only for pike or walleye are likely to catch nothing more than frostbite or hypothermia. Better to gear up one rod for perch, and then fish a separate line with a whole dead minnow, anchovy or big chunk of perch meat. And, using a length of wire will help insure that if a toothy critter accepts your offering that you will extract it from the hole. At least that way you have a shot at icing some perch for the table while waiting for a slow moving and low metabolism pike to swim by. And, they do swim through. A lot more are seen on sonar or Aqua Vu cameras than ever bite a bait.[/#0000ff]
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Thanks for the info Tube Dude. Sound advice as allways[
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[cool][#0000ff]I will be worshipping at the Pelican Lake chapel in the morning.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't treat my perchies too badly, but hope you get a limit of phatties.[/#0000ff]
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Best of luck to you![cool] can't wait for your report.
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there was 1 Walleye that i know of caught 3 weeks ago off the island at painted rock.. it was all of 5 inch's! cought on a red and white spoon tipped with worm.. i have only had 1 pike bite all year.. and that was this week in 32 feet of water down by the nearows.. fallow the snomobile tracks to the spot from painted rocks! lol it's only about 2 miles from the ramp!.. [sly]
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