if you had to pick one

If you could only fish for one specis of fish what would it be, for me I would have to say perch they change up and move so much it’s an non stop search and with no natural walleye waters here it has to be perch

Wow! I love perchin’ Those come from the big water?

I don’t think I could ever pick just one… Maybe one per month? If I could do that it would be…
Jan: stream trout
Feb: stream trout
March: lake trout
April: crappie
May: walleye
June: musky
July: smallmouth
August: pike
September: musky
October: walleye
November: buck
December: walleye

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Wow! I love perchin’ Those come from the big water?

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no it was lake maxnkuckee here in indiana

Perch are a blast to catch. Great job
Do some reading on walleye and you will see how similar they are

For ice fishing? Crappie.

Lake trout.

If I could only catch one species of fish one way, it would be Bluegills with a fly rod. That never gets old for me.

Trophy Brook Trout

Bluepieserch, oh heck, can’t pick one from the Mississippi River trifecta.

Duke

Thats a tough one!! Hardwater I would have to say crappies, but bull gils arn’t far behind.

On the ice, probably either crappies or northerns. Open water, probably muskies, can’t beat the thrill!

On a side note, why are you doing this to me???

I don’t have to pick one.

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I don’t have to pick one.

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Nice

Big pike of course, but I would need the water nearby to fish for them. As of now my big pike waters are 449 miles from here.

99% of the time I ice fish I fish for gills with a tip up for northern.

Last year I did try a new lake that was loaded with perch. They were not jumbos or big enough to eat, but they weren’t tiny either. They were everywhere and very aggressive. It was a lot of fun watching them on the Showdown and using slender spoons to get them. I moved around a lot to try and find some bigger ones, but that never happened. Still I would go back just for the action.

For me ice fishing, I many times enjoy just a lot of action, even if the fish are small.

December-March 1: Pike
March-April: whatever bites
June-September: Muskies
September-mid October: Sturgeon
Mid-October-December 1: Muskies

Great Haul Big Daddy!
I am from Fort Wayne and looks like I will be heading West this year! If I had to choose a fish through the ice it would be Perch or Walleye. This is due to the work involved in finding them. Next would be Pike because sometimes a 6″hole is barely big enough!

All year it has to be the crappie for me. I absolutely love seeing a big slab come sliding up the hole onto the ice. In summer love seeing the slabs rolling on top of the water or swimming in the reeds and weeds. So much fun catching crappies.

Pitching cranks to shallow, weedy/woody structure for big eyeballs!

During the ice? Big perch/crappies/gills.

If I really had to pick one, it would have to be a big species. Little fish just don’t do it for me. I love the sound of a screaming drag.

Perch then gills,let my son run the tip ups. Jerry