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Montana => Ice Fishing Montana => Topic started by: sra61 on Mar 08, 2019, 02:50 PM
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Had some pretty good action the other day. Got some decent footage.
https://youtu.be/HkcRUx8EgF4 (https://youtu.be/HkcRUx8EgF4)
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Sweet video! Quite the honey hole you got there. Very cool
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Great job. That's the kind of video I love watching. The real deal! :tipup:
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Nice video,lots of food in that water!
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If I may, what lure ru using there?
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If I may, what lure ru using there?
For some strange reason this year seems to be red and white Little Cleo year. I switch colors all the time, but this year for whatever reason red and white seems like their favorite!
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Great Vid! So cool in shallow water
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That was awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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I forgot to watch this, glad I saw someone reply to it. Great video Steve, you guys sure do good on those spoons!
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I'd be real tempted to have a replica made of that one big trout, that was really nice!
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I forgot to watch this, glad I saw someone reply to it. Great video Steve, you guys sure do good on those spoons!
Crazy isn't it? I was sitting on the lake one day, fishing by myself and had only had maybe one fish come in all day. Close to sundown I heard someone walking up outside. It was an older guy and when I told him how I'd done he said he'd caught quite a few and offered to fish with me the next time I went. I'm not a real social kind of guy, but called him up the next time that I went. Within maybe 10 minutes he had his first fish. He told me he only used the cheapest Pot-o-gold spoons from Walmart. He never stopped jigging and if he didn't have a fish in maybe 10 minutes he would switch colors. I thought he was crazy. Pretty soon he had another. I told myself that if he caught one more I was going to admit defeat and borrow one of those heavy spoons. Of course he had another before I even had one bite. After borrowing one from him, by the end of the day I had caught more big rainbows than I had caught all together in years! Two were over 8 pounds, and he had done the same. This is in a place that is horribly hot and cold, and persnickety big fish. Needless to say I have been sold every since. I suspect it's a local phenomenon, but don't hesitate to try it for whatever I'm going after. He told me that he had always used spoons since he was a young kid back east and caught their family's meals with them 50 years ago. Doesn't work everywhere and all the time, but one more tool for the box. I will forever be grateful to Robert for his willingness to share his success.
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That is a great vid!
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That's an awesome story SRA, thanks for sharing. I remember ice fishing trips to Bean Lake with my now deceased uncle like it was yesterday. He had a lot to do with my ice fishing willingness than my own father had.
Tight lines.
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Crazy isn't it? I was sitting on the lake one day, fishing by myself and had only had maybe one fish come in all day. Close to sundown I heard someone walking up outside. It was an older guy and when I told him how I'd done he said he'd caught quite a few and offered to fish with me the next time I went. I'm not a real social kind of guy, but called him up the next time that I went. Within maybe 10 minutes he had his first fish. He told me he only used the cheapest Pot-o-gold spoons from Walmart. He never stopped jigging and if he didn't have a fish in maybe 10 minutes he would switch colors. I thought he was crazy. Pretty soon he had another. I told myself that if he caught one more I was going to admit defeat and borrow one of those heavy spoons. Of course he had another before I even had one bite. After borrowing one from him, by the end of the day I had caught more big rainbows than I had caught all together in years! Two were over 8 pounds, and he had done the same. This is in a place that is horribly hot and cold, and persnickety big fish. Needless to say I have been sold every since. I suspect it's a local phenomenon, but don't hesitate to try it for whatever I'm going after. He told me that he had always used spoons since he was a young kid back east and caught their family's meals with them 50 years ago. Doesn't work everywhere and all the time, but one more tool for the box. I will forever be grateful to Robert for his willingness to share his success.
Very cool, not many people willing to do that.
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Killer on ling! Nice rainbows too!
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That's crazy, I never do well out there with spoons. I use small tungsten jigs with meal worms or a small 1/2" piece of crawler, always deadsticked. Those ones that come in and peel off don't care for the movement. Caught 11 trout out there in 3 hours using just deadsticked jigs, one being 28" and 8lbs.
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That's crazy, I never do well out there with spoons. I use small tungsten jigs with meal worms or a small 1/2" piece of crawler, always deadsticked. Those ones that come in and peel off don't care for the movement. Caught 11 trout out there in 3 hours using just deadsticked jigs, one being 28" and 8lbs.
I also run a deadsticked rod on a Jawjacker maybe 40' away, and always have way more action on the moving spoons. Sounds like nice fish.
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I also run a deadsticked rod on a Jawjacker maybe 40' away, and always have way more action on the moving spoons. Sounds like nice fish.
Definitely was, almost tied my PB from out there.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Lnp56VYG/20190129-213539.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Lnp56VYG)