Ice fishing honey hole! Fishing Report
First Ice Bass 2013
Hit my ice honey hole again today after work. Ice still good.
Went after the bass I lost yesterday! I set a rod with a dead shiner on the bottom. I wanted to catch catfish and eels. Never caught them through the ice!
Same hole same shiner same trap. Didnt set the trap before a fish hit. Got it to the hole the pickerel spit the hook! Small fish!
I rebait. Set the trap. On to the next hole. As a I was setting up the other trap in front of a blowdown tree, my other flag pops.
Small bass! Rebait and wait. Try jiggin for panfish.
1hour goes by. My flag pops in the magic hole.
Line was screaming off. I wait try setting the hook and I miss the fish!
I rebait! I watch the shiner swim away into the depths. Then I saw a monster pickerel hit the bait. Guess what happened!
I miss the fish. I rebait. No fish on this hole again!
I wait and try jiggin for some panfish.
My dead shiner rod bends! Hopin for eel or a
Catfish. But I caught a fat pickerel instead!
- Added By: bassturds on 01/08/13 08:51 PM
- Location: Ice fishing honey hole!
- Report Date: 1/8/2013
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Nessy! Hahaha
I ran out of big shiners I don't think it ill hit a small shiner! Unless it wants a snack!
Plus I've been feeding it the past couple of days so I don't know if it's hungry -
good luck! hope to see some pics of you posing with nessy :p
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This is the first time I've used circles for ice fishing. I've used them in saltwater!
I've always used octopus hooks on tip ups! But I didn't have any so I was usin the circles I had.
I didn't even think about the possibility of me setting the hook to Hard and pulling it out of the fished mouth.
TODAY IS THE DAY IM CATCHING THAT DAMN BASSTURD!!!!!
Pictures and a trip TONIGHT!! STAY TUNED!!!!!! -
secondly, there is might problem on your hook depend on where you buried hook on shiner. On behind the top fin or on the eye or on the shiner's mouth.
I am personally preferred to put back of shiner's top fin. But some area that bass are sensitive to bite shiner. so they will always bite their head first. therefore, you have to put hook on shiner's mouth.
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yeah if ur usin circle hooks dont try to set it , let the fish run a bit with the line in your hand and just gradually tighten up your grip almost like the drag on a reel until the fish cant run nomore and he should get hooked corner of the mouth but if you try to set it you will just pull the hook right out . they are semi self setting . try using a quick strike rig if u wanna set the hook right away. good luck
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dude, you gotta run to get flag-up. but if you see line being run. let it go but have your line on your hand. if it stop, pull it.
but you just said you use circle hooks. that's why it are easily pulled out. You cannot pull it. you need to let it run then hold on the line hard. (don't pull line yet) until you feel screamer line on your hand. that's how you know that it is definitely hooked. -
Yea I gota hold back the excitement!
When I hook the monster again today! Ill keep cool and let it run!
I'm gona be so pissed if i miss it again! -
I hardly ever ice fish, but from everything I have been told by those that do, you let them have the bait for a little bit. Never run over to a newly popped flag and grab it right away.
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I'm feeding them.
I was using big shiners. So I'm thinking the bait wasn't all the way in its mouth. Today WHEN the fish hits again I'm gona let it run. Swallow the bait then set the hook.
I'm also using circle hooks -
I think that fish is playing you! lol