11-05-2005, 04:24 AM
While I've never fished Deer Creek I have tried getting them through the ice at Starvation with little success. The only way I've caught them is on a curly tailed grub tipped with a small piece of minnow. I've only caught 3 or 4 and they were all small. If Willard frezzes this year I'm going to try again using a modified wedding ring rig. I'm going to attach a whole (dead) minnow to a shortened harness with 1 willow leaf blade on it. I don't know if it will work but it's a similar rig we used with live minnows on Lake Erie with great success. The trick at Stravation was to keep the jig in constant but very slow motion. Just tapping off the bottom and raising it 3 or 4 inches very slowly was the only way I caught them. Again, I'm not the guy to talk to when it comes to Walleye through the ice, but I am willing to learn.
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