Support Iceshanty... Get some great gear and forum goodies... Join The Iceshanty Hardwater Militia
I would like to see a few more of those days.
ooooOOOoooh! It's like a dead line. Never seen it done. Hmmmm.....something I could make? Say outta cherry? (When I find a nice limb in the yard after Irene? )
i want to purchase a dead stick rod this year who makes a good 1 without breaking the bank?
i like that theory scmelik
I don't know how much merit there is to it other than me sitting out on the ice one day thinking. Think about how when the perch really turn on in an area and there get to be 20, 30, 40, 50 + shacks the perch seem to stay in that area and just keep bouncing around. Then think about that guy out on his own (usually me). For the first few hours, or even days of a hot bite the guy out on his own will catch his fish but they tend to be sparatic. Now the guys in the big shanty towns will catch them fast and furious. It made me start thinking about why that is and how can I recreate that. Then I started watching videos of perch feeding and reading about how perch react with each other. When you pull a fish out of a school the rest will scatter unless there is something to keep them in the area, a big shanty town does this because of all the jigs, spoons and minnows at the end of the lines causing a bunch of flash and commotion giving the fish something else in the immediate area to go feed on. On the flip side of that when a single person is out on his own and he pulls in a fish if he doesn't get right back down into the school then the fish are going to go look for the next opportunity to feed, they won't stick around.There have been many times where I have had two deadsticks in the water with minnows on them and had a school camp out underneath me for 10-15 min or more and been able to pick a half dozen fish out of a school. Where as when I haven't had the deadsticks down I might get a couple of fish but then the school moves on, there is nothing to keep them in the area.