10-27-2016, 12:19 PM
[#0000FF]Good to see you guys on the water too. Glad you got to exercise a few of those "huge slabs"...and a couple of toothy playmates.
I suspect that there is a whole food chain thing going on in that area. The zooplankton and other invertebrates go deeper in cooler water. The small crappies and perch follow them. And the top predators (tigers) stay around where the groceries are. Those who target the tigers might do well by vertical jigging big spoons or tubes in the "zone". I know a couple of hard-deckers who always keep a rod rigged with those things for when the big boys show up on sonar...or looking up at them through their ice holes.
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I suspect that there is a whole food chain thing going on in that area. The zooplankton and other invertebrates go deeper in cooler water. The small crappies and perch follow them. And the top predators (tigers) stay around where the groceries are. Those who target the tigers might do well by vertical jigging big spoons or tubes in the "zone". I know a couple of hard-deckers who always keep a rod rigged with those things for when the big boys show up on sonar...or looking up at them through their ice holes.
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