Just a request for upcoming ice shows.. I’d love to see an after-dark crappie show, with some tips on how to catch them after the sun sets. I’m sure there are a lot of people, like me, who turn into complete newbs when the sun sets who would greatly benefit from such a show.
X2. Great idea.
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Just a request for upcoming ice shows.. I’d love to see an after-dark crappie show, with some tips on how to catch them after the sun sets. I’m sure there are a lot of people, like me, who turn into complete newbs when the sun sets who would greatly benefit from such a show.
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And for those guys who don’t do the ice,maybe an episode you hop into a river pro in the Monticello area and hammer some smallmouth! 
Night time Crappies can be a lot of fun, we fish one lake in particular at night for them. We fish in 12-15 ft in cabbage. I never tried jigging since we tend to sit in the truck and watch Tip Downs. Here’s a video, no us but it gives you a good idea. We also rig the Tip Downs with tip up lights that activate when they tip.
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Just a request for upcoming ice shows.. I’d love to see an after-dark crappie show, with some tips on how to catch them after the sun sets. I’m sure there are a lot of people, like me, who turn into complete newbs when the sun sets who would greatly benefit from such a show.
I love this request for a number of reasons. 1 – it would be a challenge to produce given much of it would be filmed in the dark. We like challenges. 2 – My first ice fishing experiences were fishing crappie at night near Faribault, MN.
I’ll see what we can do. A show of this type likely won’t happen right away as most of the crappie bites going right now are still taking place during the day. As we get deeper into the winter that will definitely change with more and more of the activity shifting into the evening hours.
I’ve got a show request. show up at the lake I’m fishing (Castle Rock) the same time I get there (18th of January between 6am and 8am) and get me on the fish including landing a state record walleye… hey it’s Christmas and I still believe in Santa. 
James, I still fish those Faribault lakes religiously since I’m from Owatonna. There’s a great night bite going on up there right now!
Maybe how some of those fish transition from a day bite to night bite. Seems to me that a lot of my daybite crappies turn off about the time the sun hits the tree tops.
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James, I still fish those Faribault lakes religiously since I’m from Owatonna. There’s a great night bite going on up there right now!
If I was to head that way I know just where I’d start on Mazaska.
How about something from a little further west? Fort Peck froze over completely last weekend…
How about a bloopers show. 
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1 – it would be a challenge to produce given much of it would be filmed in the dark. We like challenges.
James, How about March 30th through April 4th, you get in the boat with me and we do a night time walleye cold water crank’n! Bite starts up about 9pm
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1 – it would be a challenge to produce given much of it would be filmed in the dark. We like challenges.
James, How about March 30th through April 4th, you get in the boat with me and we do a night time walleye cold water crank’n! Bite starts up about 9pm
Randy, I’ll change my name to James if It means I can go!
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1 – it would be a challenge to produce given much of it would be filmed in the dark. We like challenges.
James, How about March 30th through April 4th, you get in the boat with me and we do a night time walleye cold water crank’n! Bite starts up about 9pm
Randy, I’ll change my name to James if It means I can go!
You and the others that sent a PM offering to do the same thing 
I think it’s time for another Mississippi River backwater show.
edit: Lake Mendota will be safe for ATVs in about a week. If you would like to have a show on super deep (70 fow) perch fishing, I’d take you out. Using Mendota sinker rigs for perch is something unique to this area.
Wow 70 feet? How do the fish even survive that?
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Wow 70 feet? How do the fish even survive that?
Jerk’n baby perch off the bottom of 60 to 70 fow is death. The big perch suspend and the fun is in chasing the schools.
Typical mendota perch 
Back in the day(mid 80’s) we looked for Perch in 60 to 70ft all the time on Green Bay….
They were big enough where they were not gonna survive anyway…
They were destined for a hot grease bath 
The Mendota perch bite sounds interesting. So does something on Winnebago!
How about chasing walleye/sauger on the Mississippi through the ice? Plenty of areas the fish could be, and this year with early ice, there is plenty of good ice out there to fish. I have many backwater sloughs that I am dying to try, but where to start? Where do these fish go (in a river system) during the winter? I have pulled some 7 lb. plus fish trolling backwaters in late November, but have yet to pull any “big” fish through the ice. Pools 5, 5a, are my home.
James! I need your help! 
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Wow 70 feet? How do the fish even survive that?
They usually don’t.
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