01-13-2022, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2022, 06:06 PM by Springbuck1.)
(01-13-2022, 03:56 PM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: Very instructive. The number of times fish mouth and reject a bait undetected was eyebrow-raising.
Watching underwater camera footage on YouTube 15 years ago, basically taught me how to ice-fish. I think it's really valuable.
It taught me exactly how dumb and befuddled cold-blooded creatures' brains can be, watching them bump into stuff, miss it, knock it around with their noses and miss it repeatedly.
Taught me exactly what a 'hit' looks like and why bite detection is a whole nuther level through the ice. That thing where they come up, sip it in and don't move? Turned out I was setting the hook a lot probably when they spit it out!
It demo'd for me how truly stupid most lures and jigging techniques look, just going "boing, boing, boing", and how attracted they are to movement, then suspicious of unnnatural movement.
How competitive they are, once they commit, and how they all gather round and stare at your jig, daring eachother to bite it, then dogpile it once one does. I remember watching six or seven perch staring down a jig/worm combo, then when one finally tries a taste, suddenly all the others want to fight him for it.
It's all very interesting.
The one thing on the video, was he starts out saying that finding them is paramount, then doesn't tell us how, just to look and move!
That's always the hardest part! You can't catch fish where they aren't.