So we're ice fishing today and this guy pulls up and drills a hole and sets a tipup.
He lays flat on the ice and sticks his face right in the hole. I'm thinking this guy has lost his mind. Then it gets to me so I have to see what he is looking at. I move a tipup to the side of the hole and take a look. The water is clear and I can see all the way to the bottom. Now I get it. He was visually setting his minnow depth to just above the weeds. Cool idea! I learned something today!
We did get a few northerns and bass today but it was slow.
not so old dog learns new trick
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick
The water must have been cold on your face...
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick
I use electronics to see the weedtops and setup above them unless it is very shallow... when shallow I peer down the hole. Heck, I peer down the hole even when it isn't shallow! Just a big kid on the ice! lol
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i do this every time i up a tip up in clear water. there might be one tall weed that your minnow will wrap around.
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick
Learned this from my Dad and have done this myself in the past. Before electronics I'm sure many of the old timers did it this way.
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I love sight fishing...went out yesterday on a lake you can see 30' down. caught a 19" walleye and it looked like a small perch down at 20'. Sometimes perch fishing the only way to get jumbos and keep you bait from the dinks is to have your head down the hole.
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick
Did he look like this?
Not sure where I got this might have been here. I thought it was hilarious.
Not sure where I got this might have been here. I thought it was hilarious.
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