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Author:
phillyphish
Date:
Jan 17, 2011
Subject:
Ice Fishing In Depth
Message:
When the ice covers our favorite fishing spots and "us" avid fisherman resort to hardwater tactics to entice our favorite species we are faced with many decisions. What type of fish are we targetting, what tactics should we use, what bait should we fish and what depth should we fish. I understand that fish act uniqely in different body's of water. For example: Bass may prefer a heavy weed-edge that holds smaller baitfish in a large lake, however bass in a shallow farm pond may hold in the deepest hole. I would like to narrow this topic down a bit. For this post I will be using what I consider the traditional Connecticut lake. Gardner lake and Rodgers Lake for example. Both lakes offer deep water dropoffs and also shallow weedy areas. neither lake has a tremendous amount of sunken structure besides weeds. I wanted to discuss which depths have been the best for each species. Hopefully by coresponding and bouncing depths for each species, we may be able to zero in our fishing depths and catch more fish. depths that I have had good luck this year include: 4-8ft weeds: pickeral, perch (tip-ups) 15ft dropoff: perch (jigging) 10ft close to weed beds: trout (on mousie's lets hear the rest of you!
Author:
TurtleKiss
Date:
Jan 17, 2011
Message:
Surface - 4ft. weeds: bass (tipup) My one slimedart hit at 10+ ft (tipup) Really small, unnecessary panfish - chillin' near the bottom (jigging) Haven't been trying for pike, trout, catfish or carp. I'm not fishing at standard places. Mostly small/private ponds.
Author:
icetilt
Date:
Jan 18, 2011
Message:
Trout depends on type, here goes: Rainbows I will fish from 1 foot to usually no more that 5 feet below the ice with Tip ups and Jigs regardless if I am in 5ft or 50ft of water. Rainbows as well like to come up on the rocky shoals in the early morning low light hours to feed. I have caught a ton of big trout right around day break in less than 5 feet of water while jigging. Browns I go for the bottom with jigs and tip ups. Depths vary but if there are browns and you start at the bottom regardless of the depth work your way up in the water column until you start hitting them. They will suspend like the rainbows as well.
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