:lol: I know nothing about ice fishing, just whatever my old man will teach me... he used to fish Simcoe years ago with pearls, spoons and copper wire threaded onto a bare hook, I guess he knows whats up. His buddies were on the minnows, saying the fish are lazy and prefer the smaller meals over the larger ones, I guess thats why we didn't catch anything over two pounds :lol: What got me so into it was that a guy pulls up with his truck, bores a 10 inch hole, pulls out a sucker thats about a foot long, rams a couple of hooks into it and down it goes... and here I sit, with my 6" hole and 2" minnow, maybe 2.5" if you pull on it, fishing for the same species... he was saying the lakers get 20 + lbs there. He was also telling me a story that he was in a hut and somewhere on the lake... the ice fell/moved, displaced water and the water came gushing out of his hole enough that it hit his roof... soaked him and everything else in the hut :blink:
Gotta say though, the thunder like sound ice makes when it shifts/cracks will take some time to get used to :shock:
