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Ice Fishing Tips
By Frank Faldo, Thu Dec 8th
b>Ice Fishing Depth Sounder If you ever need a quick depth sounder when ice-fishing, you canmake one with a small bobber and bell sinker. Just attach thesinker to the bottom line retainer of the bobber and the hook orlure to the top retainer. This makes it easy to find the water’sdepth. One of the most effective tools for any ice fisherman is thefantastic Evening Secret to swarming hungry fish to your spot.A great way to increase your ice catches.
Falling through the ice If you are out with a buddy ice fishing – and there is apossibility of breaking ice, make sure to stay at least 10 feetapart to spread out your weight. You should also each carry longpoles; they can be used to straddle the hole to help you climbout. Make sure to have a poncho, waterproof matches, safetypins, bandages, knife, candles, bouillon cubes, and cocoa orsoup. Put all of them in a watertight metal can which can beused to heat water over a candle in an emergency. Freezing If you are an ice fisherman and consistently have problems withyour hole freezing up – instead of pouring anti-freeze into thehole (which shuts down fishing action), use denatured alcohol.It is less expensive, has no odor or taste, and is available atany pharmacy. Bait If you are an ice fisherman (which 2 million people are in theU.S.), the following bait will bring you even more success. For Bluegills use tiny ice spoons (1/32 to 1/80 of an ounce),ice flies or No. 10 or 12 gold hooks. Tip them with gall worms,crane fly larvae, mousies, mealworms, wax worms, or maggots.Fish the offering
with a light tremble or quivering movement.Try levels from one to three feet off bottom, over depths o f10to 20 feet. A murky or weedy bottom is best for them. For crappies, use a Swedish Pimple jiggling spoon, Rapala icefishing plug or live minnows fished on No. 2 to 6 hooks.Crappies can suspend at just about any depth, from a few feetbelow the ice to just off bottom, in water from five to 20 feetdeep. Move often. Yellow perch – use the same baits as for crappies and bluegills.Also try jigging spoons sweetened with the eye from a freshlycaught perch or a tiny strip of meat sliced from a perch orbluegill. Trout – shoal areas, the mouths of inlets, and points haveproduced the most rainbows, browns and brookies through the ice.You can catch them on about every kind of bait or lure you canthink of. Wet flies and nymphs with a sp lit-shot crimped a footabove for weight are good, as are minnows, spinners, jiggingspoons and ice rapalas. Pickerel, Pike, Muskies – live minnows or dead ones rigged tohang horizontally in the water are the best producers. Tip-upsallow you to spread your baits over a wide area in weedy covesand on points where these predators rove under the frozen lake’ssurface searching for prey. Walleyes – reefs, points, inlets and outlets are good spots forice walleyes. Live minnows, jigging Rapalas, Swedish Pimples,Hopkins and Gay Blades are consistent producers. About the author:Copyright 2005 EveningSecretFishing.com Fishing Long-Time Fisherman and friend of EveningSecretFishing (http://www.eveningsecretfishing.com/specialsecret/Ice_Fishing_Tips.php) Feel free to use this article on your website or anywhere else -but all links and bio information must remain in tact.
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