Slush monster at Pineview

[Springbuck1]

A couple days ago it was that very unnerving thing where you would crack through the crust on the slush. Every step to fall several inches to the hard ice below.

I've been up there three times and I can't catch anything. I mark a lot of fish but i'm not getting many bites.

The bite is definitely tough, What works for me is dropping my jig into the school of fish and aggressively jigging it then reeling up a few feet above the school and if fish follow it up I hold my rod dead sticking it and watch my rod tip, if it moves or my line goes slack I lift up and hope my rod loads up if it doesn’t, I drop back down and try again, it is not uncommon to swing and miss several times before I hook up.

Thanks for the tip. But I have tried all sorts a jigging patterns and cadence, as well as putting it over under and right in the middle of them.

Pine view is the closest thing I have to a home lak. A couple of years I have done literally all my ice fishing at night for crappies. I have lost them for entire years at a time, it seems.  But I can usually make something happen up there,sob I'm already worried.