A guys got to do what a guys gotta do !!!
How many of you shallow water guys and gals try hard to minimize the light penetration thru to your offering ?
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February 12, 2015 at 12:19 pm
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Shallow Water Ice Fishing and Light Penetration
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February 12, 2015 at 1:11 pm #1510683
Definitely notice a difference with larger holes vs the little 5 inch holes When fishing the backwaters. Especially when the fish are holding right under the ice. Did you notice a difference?
February 12, 2015 at 1:20 pm #1510686Definitely notice a difference with larger holes vs the little 5 inch holes When fishing the backwaters. Especially when the fish are holding right under the ice. Did you notice a difference?
Put this hat set up over the hole last Saturday when the sun was high an it didn’t take long to get the fish to come into the hole again !!
February 12, 2015 at 1:20 pm #1510687Definitely notice a difference with larger holes vs the little 5 inch holes When fishing the backwaters. Especially when the fish are holding right under the ice. Did you notice a difference?
Koonce has been telling me about the advantages of a smaller hole for years.
I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to type that with a straight face. As it turns out… I pulled it off.
February 12, 2015 at 3:01 pm #1510740hahahahah
Oh Boy !!!
February 12, 2015 at 5:34 pm #1510804February 12, 2015 at 8:21 pm #1510881I also run a 6″ nils because a 5″ is to small! I fish petenwell and castlerock, along with lake koshkonong! Leave some slush in the hole to reduce light penetration. Guys whom fish lakes rivers with giant crappies, bass, walleyes, catfish all know why a 5″ is to small anyhow!
February 12, 2015 at 9:41 pm #1510923Lol there’s no sunshine here to worry about until summer
February 12, 2015 at 10:49 pm #1510941That’s a great idea, and I don’t have to carry anything extra on the ice with me. I tend to leave a lot of ice in my holes to help cut light but I know there are times I miss a few fish because of it.
February 12, 2015 at 11:15 pm #1510945I know a guy who once pulled a 15″ busier crappie thu a 5″ hole !!
One of those rare times I enjoyed being oh so very wrong.
February 13, 2015 at 1:58 am #1510958Here is Higgins lake shining her light on me. This hole produced my very first laker in 90 fow! I know its not shallow but i’m not sure if the dark hole contributed to my success that day or not. Are lake trout leary of light? I think reducing light may be a good practice all around unless you’re targeting fish that like to eat the micro organism such as zooplankton like smelt etc… Im going to try this next time i’m fishing in the shallows.
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February 13, 2015 at 7:40 am #1511030Not only light, but possibly a high riding crappie may see movement overhead, between the large hole and refraction. Leaving slush in the hole creates line drag and disrupts both the fall of light lures and the detection of my favorite sight, the “up bite.”
February 13, 2015 at 7:43 pm #1511407my last trip out the ice was maybe 20+ ” I got lazy and used the 10″ lazer mag didn’t take duke to long to point out the error of my ways we went back to the 5″ hand auger and didn’t clean the hole very well, no doubt fishing got a whole lot more fun! still healing up duke but I will be back to see ya thanks B GRIFFIS
February 15, 2015 at 7:42 am #1511703There’s a reason why a lot of the old timers always liked a little slush in there holes, geez i hope i didn’t open up another can of worms, but you get the jest of it
February 15, 2015 at 9:27 am #1511744So that’s what they mean by a HAT TRICK.
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