02-15-2011, 04:32 PM
It is all personal preference. I usually find that a bit of action, then dead sticking it works the best for me. I will jig my rod 5-10 times, then just set the rod back on the ice to let the bait settle down, and most of my hits come within 30 seconds of me setting that rod down. Have you ever seen a dying minnow or fish in the water? Most the time they have sporadic moments of a lot of movement, just swimming and jerking all over the place, then that settles down and they just lay there for a minute or two, and the process starts over.
Predatory fish usually wait for all that movement to stop, cause the fish is a lot easier to catch when it is no longer moving.
On soft water you can do the same thing when trolling, but I will leave that for another day.
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Predatory fish usually wait for all that movement to stop, cause the fish is a lot easier to catch when it is no longer moving.
On soft water you can do the same thing when trolling, but I will leave that for another day.
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