Ice fishing For Perch Catching Perch with the right gear could be a pleasure. Nothing like a days ice fishing when everything comes simply and the fish just about hook themselves. But alas not all days are like this and when times become harder here are some tips to catch this exciting fish. Make the fish take an impulsive snap at your bait. So you know where the Perch are, you've got a hole in the ice and now you must attract and hook them but they are being mulish. When the perch are in this mood you have to think Mr perch if you do not need to feed then I need to pee you off. What does this mean, well essentially you need to use your lure as an agitant. Perch truly like things that move so you actually have to work those lures in a lot of different ways to make the fish wish to sink their teeth into it. A lure desires to be inconsistent in its movement so a Perch takes that impulsive snap. Worry less about making you lure look like a tiny fish but instead do truly moves to really get a fishes attention and even irritate them. Don't stay stactic Often Ice fishing for perch comes in runs where you're taking a few fish for a bit then things go quite.

What do you do? Do you stay in your present position hoping for things to pick up or do you move. If you decide to move well how far or where to. Well this method works for me when fishing becomes slow. I either move to a totally new area or I just leave the fishing for an hour and go and have a coffee in my tent tehn come back later.

I believe drilling more holes in the same area again is sometimes a waste of effort and time so I am going for the simple route. Keep it simple!!!! It all about vision Kamikaze perch will occasionally rise fifteen feet to hit a descending lure. Perch can see a good distance, particularly in the clear water of winter. Use this to your advantage next time they are getting mulish. Reel your lure up to the hole, and on a slack line, drop it back down again.

Let it fall all the way to the bottom. This will typically get them interested forcing them to swim from great distances to see what's up. Take the pull away from them again, back to the surface, and repeat the process. Pay attention to your flasher or underwater camera. If you notice a fish that is rising to meet the attraction, hit the brakes about a foot above it, and start slowly pumping and swimming the attraction upward.

The aggressor will customarily follow and strike. If you see the reverse taking place a fish following the attraction down after the pull passes it on the drop, let it sit on the bottom till the fish gets there.

You will be dazzled how many will slurp it off the bottom. Now look who the sucker is! Exciting the instinct without regard for which strategies you select, most perch fishing scenarios need one additional motion mixed in. Actually, it's no motion! From aggressively jigging a spoon to the sophisticated strokes you use to swim an ice fly, an opportunity for consumption must be offered. Snoozing ( pausing ) the pull provides that opportunity by exciting the predator instincts of perch, and it'll customarily con them to gobble up the offering. The key is to vary the length of the pause till you identify the best time frame. Often , this can correlate with the aggressiveness of the perch. Pause lengths may alter from two or 3 seconds to a minute depending on the mood of the fish. The more slow they are, the longer the pause. When it comes to perch, often the correct jump for success is no move at all. Not only are these effective strategies that may put more perch on the ice, they also have a propensity to put a grin on the face of both the youth and the adults in your angling party. Children can be themselves and achieve success perch anglers. For the adults it is a simple rule of thumb to recollect : Stop acting your age and start teasing around.

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Ice Fishing and Sticklebacks

Ice Fishing with Sticklebacks The Jan day started out as always, merely a quick load up with the ice fishing kit that I keep inside, and a drive out to the lake, but little do I'm of the opinion that future events would contradict a fishing can't do.

After hand augering two holes thru twelve inches of ice fishing, I set up the spot for ice fishing and hooked one crappie minnow on the bobber rig, then dropped my small plastic jig to lure those panfish. Before I could open the thermos to pour some hot coffee, my bobber rig circled in the hole then went down. I dropped the pole tip toward the hole then reeled in the slack and set the hook into decent weight. The fight did not last long as I saw the crappie come to the hole, then roll, throw the hook and swim away. I assumed the quick loss wasn't an issue because more are certain to follow, and the sonar showed masses of fish down below, so I enthusiastically awaited the bites.

After a long 20 mins of no bites on either pole I started wondering what those fish are up to. So I modified out tiddlers on the bobber rig and put on a new crappie minnow. The subsequent 20 mins consisted of playing moggy and mouse with fish on both lines, and it changed into a bit annoying. Disappointment turned to curiosity, a little light bulb in my head started glowing. Swimming in the minnow bucket was a reasonably peculiar number of tiddlers that are usually called the stickleback. Sticklebacks have four spiky dorsal fins that stand straight up, and 2 side spikes or fins on both sides of these small torpedo formed tiddlers. Sticklebacks also have an announced lower lip the gives them an overbite, nothing else looks like them and they cannot be identified as any other minnow but a stickleback. These peculiar looking tiddlers are also scorned by fisherman, and seen by most anglers as a complete waste of bait, a minnow to be ignored, finished, or let go.

There I sat on the ice fishing, and thought well I cannot do any worse by trying a stickleback as bait.

I know fellow fishermen say they are pointless, but what does one have to lose? At least no-one will see me try one, as I am alone on this part of the lake. I gently nicked the top of the stickleback minnow and hooked it between the 1st and 2nd backbone or fin. Inside one minute after lowering that bait the bobber went down. Fish on and ice fishingd - a twelve crappie. Sweet stickleback! I thought and put on another one- boom bobber down - nice perch. Then I caught another nice perch on the plastic jig. Then another nicer perch on the same stickleback that enticed the last fish. Before I came to any conclusions as perhaps the bite is just turning on and those sticklebacks have zilch to do with these catches I put on a crappie minnow, and 4 mins went by without a smash. Reeled up, then put on a stickleback and within one minute another nice perch was ice fishing. I ran out of sticklebacks after about a half hour of good fishing, and was shortly singing the praises of this much-maligned minnow. I got a genuine kick out of making an attempt to establish if in the bites the fish would hit a crappie minnow, and that experiment showed, no, they wanted those tiny spiky tiddlers.

The morning turned from a dud to a good perch fry, as the list of fishing don't's shortens, all thanks to the vengeance of the stickleback. Keep catchin'.

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