With the days getting a bit shorter and the nights cooler I will soon start my daily Ice Dance hoping the ice Gods will bring early ice.
What will James and the IDO staff have in store for us this season?
Hopefully a season with every episode in a boat.
Hopefully a season with every episode in a boat.
Move to Florida
Hopefully a season with every episode in a boat.
Thats not even funny 
I really want a episode of how to seek out new waters.
Like what to look for when they explore. Ie take a lake and dissect it. Where would you start first and last. I think that would be very helpful to people.
With the days getting a bit shorter and the nights cooler I will soon start my daily Ice Dance hoping the ice Gods will bring early ice.
What will James and the IDO staff have in store for us this season?
“hoping the ice Gods will bring early ice.” Is that what was happening all over the news today?
I really want a episode of how to seek out new waters.
Like what to look for when they explore. Ie take a lake and dissect it. Where would you start first and last. I think that would be very helpful to people.
+1
More episodes in a boat.
I really want a episode of how to seek out new waters.
Like what to look for when they explore. Ie take a lake and dissect it. Where would you start first and last. I think that would be very helpful to people.
+1. Not everyone can hook up with a local guide who has the bite dialed in on the lake. It’d be helpful to see a guy attack a brand new lake with no help from local guides.
Or a rainy river fall trip close to the shiner run
Personally I think they do a great job in explaining techniques and the thought process they use to get on fish. If you watch a number of shows you will quickly notice this. It is not just catch a fish and throw it back, or calling it a “Slobosaurus” and eat a brat!
I do know James and Company listen to our concerns and he is constantly using input improving the show. You cant say that about a lot of shows IMHO.
Keep up with what they are doing. I think IDO is the best fishing show out there because of how they explain things. It wouldn’t even bother me if they did a show explaining things and never hit the water or brought up a fish in that episode. There are so many shows I skip because they just show them catching fish and never break thing down.
And because the also protect the identities of small bodies of water. I do believe they’ve vaguely explained on numerous occasions how to explore DNR websites for fish surveys and what to look for.
Not to say it couldn’t be said again, but I’m of the opinion that there’s a fine line here that’s difficult to identify when you show the masses how to find these fragile places.
Who hasn’t spent hours exploring Lake Finder already? I’m betting there’s at least a dozen other people that have highlited some of the same Lakes that I have. The number of gems out there is very large, the the number of people looking is massive.
It is not just catch a fish and throw it back, or calling it a “Slobosaurus” and eat a brat!
I thick you being a little harsh…..if you really watch they show quite a few the details…….They just present it different because a bunch of people seem to like it that way…
Don’t get me wrong IDO is my favorite TV show big time….(James is a hoot 
) but I watch the others because each is good in their own way….to me 
The number of gems out there is very large, the the number of people looking is massive.
I agree there are a ton of hidden gems out there, but imo the people looking and actually attempting to fish them is shrinking. Most people now (again just my opinion) don’t want to try a lake blind on a good DNR report from a few years back. They want to know what lake, location and technique from a recent trip or they will go back to one of the big lakes or another location they have had success on previously, before seeking out an unknown. I know I’m guilty of it sometimes too! And it’s a big challenge for James and crew imo, keeping things fresh while knowing the masses are going to try to duplicate what they did, in the location they did it.
Personally I don’t think they need to change anything, the show is pretty dialed in as is. My one request would be to talk bigger picture trends/tendencies for each lake (of the big one’s) they visit. Like if on Leech with Phil (or whoever on any body of water), what he likes for ______ season (early/late ice, spring etc.)
ido and the next bite are simply the best shows going right now. good hosts, good info graphics, just really well done.
what would i like to see james do? an illinois river show. i’d like to see a lower pool show. redwing is great, but give me a show from pool 8 or 9. ice fishing wise, i don’t think i’d change a thing. shows are just great.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>chris-tuckner wrote:</div>
It is not just catch a fish and throw it back, or calling it a “Slobosaurus” and eat a brat!I thick you being a little harsh…..if you really watch they show quite a few the details…….They just present it different because a bunch of people seem to like it that way…
Don’t get me wrong IDO is my favorite TV show big time….(James is a hoot) but I watch the others because each is good in their own way….to me
No doubt about the entertainment value of the other shows! I watch them too. I was speaking more about education value of IDO shows.
I wanna see a show on chequamegon bay ice fishing for trout. That is a fun body of water.
How about an episode with a person from the forum?? Or another official ido get together? Mille lacs?
One show on ice fishing and fill the rest of the schedule with open water. 
Ice is for cocktails. 
I think James should invite Dutchboy out for a show. 
First show of the season on ice!?!? That would have to be a first.
First show of the season on ice!?!? That would have to be a first.
Nope. Season 9 episode 1
I really want a episode of how to seek out new waters.
Like what to look for when they explore. Ie take a lake and dissect it. Where would you start first and last. I think that would be very helpful to people.
Preferably without consulting a few guides in town before the episode 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tucrs wrote:</div>
I really want a episode of how to seek out new waters.Like what to look for when they explore. Ie take a lake and dissect it. Where would you start first and last. I think that would be very helpful to people.
Preferably without consulting a few guides in town before the episode
I like it. Start out by throwing a dart on a map.
I’d love to see some Pool 4 or 5 Mississippi River backwater ice shows.
There are some gem areas to be found, and you can still actually keep spots to yourself, unlike most lakes…where a shack is visible from miles away and community spots are rarely empty.
It wouldn’t even bother me if they did a show explaining things and never hit the water or brought up a fish in that episode.
x2
I consider myself extremely average/mediocre on a good day, and I know enough that you throw s*#t into the water and hope you bring it back with a fish on it. There probably isn’t a fisherman out there that I couldn’t learn something from, and I love it when things are “dumbed down” sometimes. Just because I or else has done something a certain way for awhile doesn’t mean there isn’t a better way; sometimes it even helps just to know why it’s done a certain way.
Preferably without consulting a few guides in town before the episode
No thanks.
How many times have we heard on any show from the guys “we’ve fished the last couple days without nada”, quite a bit. I’m not gonna learn all that much from watching tough conditons and hosts trying to figure it out. Give me hotbites, even mediocre where I can maximize the most of what they are saying. Tough days equal a few fish if you can figure it out, good days when you figure it out is 10x that, that’s what I want.
Hosts are just people, great sticks for sure but even great sticks cant figure out every body of water we as viewers want them to hit and be successful in the small window they have to film.
I expect the same awesomeness they’ve put out for some time now, nothing more nothing less. 
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