Making Beds?

[SDFlagChaser]

I have been catching gills lately with bloody fins.  Are they already starting to clear spawning beds even with the ice still on?

[taxi1]

I have been catching gills lately with bloody fins.  Are they already starting to clear spawning beds even with the ice still on?

Way to early. They don't make beds until water temps go into the upper 60's at least. Not sure what the cause would be.

[SDFlagChaser]

i thought it wa too early also, but i have seen bass with the same thing right before the spawn.  i started seeing it about 2 weeks ago, and it had confused me since.  they are definetely doing something on the bottom, cuz the fins are bloody..  if i go out and catch them on sunday, i will take a pic and see if anyone can figure it out. 

[sparky]

Could it be that the food supply is geing knocked down and they are fanning the bottom for the insect larva?  Stir the bottom and stir up some dinner.  I know that where I fish on warmer sunny days I've seen small black flies emerging from the holes.  The only way to catch fish is to put on a black fly and place a small split shot about a half foot below the ice fly so that when you drop your jig down it makes a little cloud of sediment in the water.  Bam the fish sees the cloud than your ice fly rise out of the silt, fish on