04-20-2023, 04:54 PM
(04-20-2023, 04:15 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Thanks for the nice detailed report Kent. Just curious were you fishing with one or two poles? I'm not sure about everyone else but when I'm ice fishing I always have one line near the bottom and one suspended at mid depth, at least for the first hour or so to figure out where most of the fish are hanging. If I see fish coming through at a certain mid depth, I can easily drop down or raise up a few feet pretty quick and sometimes even get the fish to bite. Glad you get in one more trip to the Berry.
Yes, I had one rod on the bottom and one suspended. I was marking fish around both rods; however, it has been my experience that the fish on the bottom are more likely to bite than the suspended fish and so I was more actively fishing the rod on the bottom. It has also been my experience that the fish on the bottom, on the whole, are larger than the suspended ones.