Picking a good ice fishing location

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So I have this problem, I know I need to be mobile when I ice fish so I can move if I'm not catching fish.... But I always go out and set up and then it's too hard to move or I'm too lazy or bullheaded to move... So how do I pick a better spot to start with? Yesterday on Mantua, I drilled a few holes and seen a fish on the graph right as soon as I got the graph working, so I figured good spot, no weeds and etc... So I camped there for an hour plus with only one other fish coming by, which I tried to hook, but broke my line.. sorry another story... Anyway my other pole I had on a jaw jacker and nothing there, so I decided to move a short distance, maybe 50 feet... Drilled another hole and as soon as I got down I nailed a perch, then had a series of three fish as fast as I could get back down... Then things slowed but kept pulling fish in through the rest of the day... When I left the other hole, I put my sonar phone transducer in the hole so I could watch and see if I made a mistake by moving, well nothing showed at that hole as long as I kept watching... Both holes looked the same under water, nothing appeared to the eye through the camera to be any different, but the fish hit the one spot and not the other... Why and how do I find better spots and not waste too much of my day in a dry hole..(so to speak).???? Water is actually fairly murky through a camera, even though to the eye it looks crystal clear. Also I never caught a deadstick fish yesterday, but BrighamFish and Jr got a lot of their hits on the dead stick method... All these questions I can't figure out... Anyway if you can help guide a icer, I'd appreciate it.... Thanks J
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