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not so old dog learns new trick

Unread postby magicman54494 » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:36 pm

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.


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Re: not so old dog learns new trick

Unread postby BigHunt » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:18 pm

:? ......... :lol: i do this all the time... :lol:
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:19 am

The water must have been cold on your face... :P
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Re: not so old dog learns new trick

Unread postby Singing Bridge » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:36 am

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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Re: not so old dog learns new trick

Unread postby whitetail007 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:45 am

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

Unread postby Dewey » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:30 am

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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Unread postby ONE UP » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:32 am

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

Unread postby BGHUNTER » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:09 pm

Did he look like this?
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Not sure where I got this might have been here. I thought it was hilarious.


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