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Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Open Water/Basin
cmahon2005
Bronze Ambassador
12/30/22
Species
Crappie
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
17 ft of water, hordes of bluegills and crappies in the weeds. They were rising up 3-4 ft to hit my tungsten. I started with a Fiskas Wolfram tungsten jig with a eurolarvae, and then when I started to run out of bait I switched to a Clam Maki Polli plastic in the chartreuse color.
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Insects
Drill a lot of holes and be willing to move, once you find them they don’t move much and tend to be aggressive.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Skipping a chatterbait around docks, cover a ton of water
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Humps
Forage
Insects
0
Bluegills were very active on a 14 foot hump that drops off to 19. clam jamei motor oil was the ticket!
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Insects
Drill out the deeper holes on prior and use a spoon to weed out the smaller gills.
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Ice
Technique
Ice Fishing Jigs
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Insects
Downsize to a 3mm to get more gills to trigger. Majority of fish on edge of basin.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Skipping a 3/8 queen tackle tungsten jig on shallow main lake docks.