I love fast and furious days in the ice. When you can just plop almost anything down a hole and fish respond. Today was not that day. But I enjoy challenging days and working fish into biting. At least it makes me feel like I'm getting better with presentation and responding to fish. I drilled a lot of holes this morning and for every hole I seemed to get a fish or two to commit. I did mark quite a few on the flasher but once I hooked one it seemed like the rest would just move on. So I spent a lot of time working several holes and what I found though was that I was at least getting quality fish to commit. Color did not seem to matter, though I stuck with chartreuse and some waxies. I'd let it sink to the bottom, pound the jig into the mud then raise it up really slow and then I'd seem to get a hit. Ice a few perch and bluegill, some trout to. All released. FYI I caught fish on red jigs and white jigs, and the chartreuse
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[quote cbassonafly] But I enjoy challenging days and working fish into biting. At least it makes me feel like I'm getting better with presentation and responding to fish. [/quote]
I agree. it can be fun to play cat and mouse with fish on the finder and finally coax them to action. It can also be humbling when they don't bite despite all efforts.
Nice jumbo perch.
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Where were you? If you don't mind telling.
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Perch, trout, and gills? One place fits that bill.
One man to a nuther.
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[
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Nice to meet you out there today. As we learned, our stories were pretty much the same from entirely different parts of the lake. Days like this I can see where the electronics adds a lot of fun. I might have to try it someday [sly].
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It was nice to meet you too! Always nice to chat with other anglers. Good luck on your next outing.
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Sometimes the fish just don't bite. They might ignore everything and make you wonder if they are somewhere else and not even there to see your presentations. I've always wondered that up until the time I got my Marcum LX-9 and that's one reason I bought it.
I recorded an underwater video of a suspended blue gill. It stayed right in front of my camera. Do fish sleep with their eyes open just suspended in the water? I tried changing lures many times and putting it right in front of this fish that was teasing me. Finally, I would bounce the lure on it's head and it still stayed right there with fins slowly moving to hold it's position. It didn't even bother moving away from the lure bouncing on it's head.
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