02-02-2021, 04:09 PM
(02-02-2021, 03:18 PM)catchinon Wrote: Just to clarify what Gabe said: Northland Buck-Shot is an excellent rattling lure. I've used a Kastmaster with rattles, too but that's about all I know. I hope others will share specific lures they use.
Have you used PowerBait? Sometimes it saves the day when nothing else works. Garlic seems like a good choice. Saturday the fish at Fish Lake came arunning to it but wouldn't bite. Having other baits in the water at the same time is a good tactic. Cutbait also works well. Chub, sucker, etc. Where perch is legal for bait, cut small strips of belly meat, about the size of a waxworm or two. That strip will undulate enticingly with the smallest jigging action. Try Atomic Teasers, too. I like green and various combos of white and orange and pink. Be careful if you don't want to keep fish because they will swallow them. They are made of PowerBait stuff so fish tend to think they are getting the real thing. But they don't work without added bait. I like waxworms but anything might work.
Yes!! The Northland Buck-Shot is what I was referring to in my previous post. I have a glow version that is white with orange stripes, and it was one of the best yesterday at AF boat harbor. The perch were very fond of it...in fact I got them to keep biting a full hour after dark which seems to be a rarity these days after dark. It had to be charged and glowing though. If it wasn't glowing, it wasn't working...and I was only fishing about 4.5 FOW off the docks. Nothing big though. Biggest was around 8" - most were 7".
Unfortunately, the WB were not in the harbor in any good numbers. Only caught two that were eaters. The rest were catfish-sized bait. Only about 2-4" of lesser quality ice in the harbor right now. The entrance and lake beyond are soft water. Anyone else know if the WB swarm back into the iced harbors once the main lake loses its ice?