Flashers spooking fish, any possibility???

Hit a western Wisconsin lake that I’ve been fishing pretty steady Saturday and it was a zoo with the nice weather, I’m fishing a series of cribs and as usual the weekend warriors mooched right in, now the interesting thing is two friends fished with me hole hopping a couple of the cribs they both had flashers and I don’t use electronics, they for the record are both very good ice fishermen, I limited and released prob half a limit afterwards (“bass fishing” at that point), and they combined for maybe 10, we all fished fairly close but at one period in time I put up 8 gills in a few min and they couldn’t mark a thing, same baits and everything, I’ve had this happen a ton of times when the pressure is heavy, we were in 12-15 FOW, is there any possibility that the pulses from the transducers negatively affect spooked fish????

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Hit a western Wisconsin lake that I’ve been fishing pretty steady Saturday and it was a zoo with the nice weather, I’m fishing a series of cribs and as usual the weekend warriors mooched right in, now the interesting thing is two friends fished with me hole hopping a couple of the cribs they both had flashers and I don’t use electronics, they for the record are both very good ice fishermen, I limited and released prob half a limit afterwards (“bass fishing” at that point), and they combined for maybe 10, we all fished fairly close but at one period in time I put up 8 gills in a few min and they couldn’t mark a thing, same baits and everything, I’ve had this happen a ton of times when the pressure is heavy, we were in 12-15 FOW, is there any possibility that the pulses from the transducers negatively affect spooked fish????

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I have heard of cameras spooking fish…pretty regularly. But I have never heard of a transducer spooking fish.

I have also was thinking about this the other day while out on the ice. I have an LX-7 and I have the Max Ping Rate @ 4? When I pull the transducer out of the water you can here a noise.

I think you’re probably the “better” angler and they are better at watch a wheel go round and round.

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All a flasher does is show fish, Still gotta get them to bite!

When the bite is light I think you can miss bites watching the flasher. Once you know the fish are there and biting it is sometimes better to shut the flasher off.

Only if they stick their ding-a-ling down a hole.

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When the bite is light I think you can miss bites watching the flasher. Once you know the fish are there and biting it is sometimes better to shut the flasher off.

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I line my rod tip up with my flasher so I can see when the fish comes to my bait and when there close then I watch my rod tip, then you can see in the background if he goes away or not…And no I don’t think flashers scare fish, especially that deep…

DLD24, I do the same thing and i totally agree with what you said.

What I think is we should shut off our heart beat while ice fishing ..that for sure will be heard under the ice too….

I read one time about guys on vermillion drastically increasing hookup rates on heavily pressured rock bars by killing their graphs, all sonar is is bouncing different frequency clicks off objects and measuring the distance and strengths of the returns, a buckshot rattle spoon emits prob less audible sound than a transducer from any graph, to deny possible affects of that would also be to deny the added effectiveness of most rattling spoons and jigs

I’ve been fishing a shallow marsh (3 ft) and these fish are pretty spooky. If they see you up the hole, you move your chair in the shack, someone drills a hole, or you rip a good fart, they scatter. But My flasher doesn’t seem to bother them one bit.

Very small differences in presentation can be the difference between a good day and a slow day. A few hours with a camera on finicky fish can be a pretty good education. You’ll have a fish coming in and you’ll change your jigging style, or your jig spins 90 degrees, or your bait isn’t sitting right on your jig… and you don’t get bit.

Whatcha using a flasher in three feet of water for, just giving ya sh*t, totally agree on the jig positioning gig, I sight fish a ton and if the jigs spinning or swaying too much side to side usually the fish won’t touch it, also seems like jigs/plastics with too much going on (legs, blades, odd shapes) seem to get hit but don’t always result in good hook ups with lots of strikes that miss the hook, I like baits where the area the fish is focused on is compact and as close to the hook as possible, ie purists, moon glows/glitters, small marmooskas, when bites are really f’d up like this week I’ve done really well using goldenrod grubs and size 14 marmooskas to create the most compact bait (downward 45 deg hook position also helps) possible and pounded fish by being able to capitalize on even the most timid taste testings granted all this is tailored to gill fishing just never been a crappie guy and never had to get too abstract to beat up perch