Kim City - Dec 22 - Deep ice jig & swimbait

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning and the fishing was pretty good. I stayed on the main lake around trees and shad. Finding shad in the creeks and on the main lake is pretty easy and the schools can be very large,  but finding fish is the issue. This morning I landed on the right combination of shad/trees and lots of active fish. I stayed between 40 and 60 FOW and the fish near the bottom were the easiest to catch. The ice jig (5/8) produced a bunch of K's and the 2.8 swimbait was used to catch a very nice LM. I wish I would have thrown the swimbait more, but when your graph shows fish under the boat you have to drop on them. The swimbait window was probably only good for a 15-30 minute timeframe prior to the sun coming up over the horizon. Also caught two nice walleye on the ice jig.  WT 54.5 to 55.5. One graph pic shows WT of 50, but I had just put the trolling motor down.

 

[Dutch]

Wow nice.  I haven’t seen that much stuff on a screen in years.

[Bill Babler]

Thought it might have been good early but we didn't get out till 10. 

Couldn't find any bottom fish, ours were suspended over the shad. Some shad as deep as 110 ft.  

Fish in the 40' to 70' range. Lots of refusal. Notice the Real-time flasher in the extreme right of the screen. If you have a Lowrance enable this feature its fantastic. 

[bobby b.]

3 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Real-time flasher

this feature is available on the Garmin and Humminbird units.

[Bill Babler]

Never have seen it on either unit. I'm going to have to figure put how to use it in mine. Was told it did not have it. 

Very interesting I'm going to try and look it up right now.  Thanks

[bobby b.]

Look under Menu, Sonar Setup, Appearance, A-Scope - I think you can have a choose of lines or circles (like Lowrance), I prefer the lines 

Humminbird calls this Real Time Sonar(RLS)

[Champ188]

9 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Never have seen it on either unit. I'm going to have to figure put how to use it in mine. Was told it did not have it. 

Very interesting I'm going to try and look it up right now.  Thanks

My old 998 Birds definitely have it. Pretty useful, even for a doodle-socker like me. 😂