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Offline ronbgood55

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The forecast for next week looks  BAD :'(. I think they should start a new app in stead of ICE SHANTY it should be SHORE SHANTY .....LOL. I don't have that much experience in fishing from the shore in the dead of winter in Mass.How do you do it?? Any Idea's guys???

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #1 on: Jan 06, 2023, 08:27 AM »

  if your ever in wi I'll show you I can fish 25 ft. of water from land with a ice rod

Offline mikez

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #2 on: Jan 06, 2023, 09:09 AM »
From Monday, a place we normally ice fish this time of year. Just like late Fall, early winter shore fishing



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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #3 on: Jan 06, 2023, 05:24 PM »
Bait and wait, night crawlers floated off the bottom for trout, or shiners on a float

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #4 on: Jan 06, 2023, 05:45 PM »
  if your ever in wi I'll show you I can fish 25 ft. of water from land with a ice rod

Open up the spool, grab your line and split shot by hand, wind it up like a sling and launch that sucker like David having a go at Goliath?
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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #5 on: Jan 06, 2023, 05:50 PM »
I will be hitting some sections of the Conn. River when the water goes down. I plan to fish hardware, mostly jigs. I think it was January Will got a Pike on a bucktail this time of year...

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #6 on: Jan 06, 2023, 06:41 PM »
  ;D  ;D The fish metabalism is slow er so slow down your presentation. let the fish tell you what they want. I fish the slower holes where the current is less and the fish lay in wait for goodies. the live bait should do the trick if you can get good lively minnows or chubs. on bottom. Maybe try a spray of the big W or some other stink on your hook treat. Look out for Falling Rock or Slippery Elm! Look at the bright side of things.....no drill no slush, no frozen bait,dead bats or hut blowing away.  ;D ;D

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #7 on: Jan 07, 2023, 02:20 PM »
  ;D  ;D The fish metabalism is slow er so slow down your presentation. let the fish tell you what they want. I fish the slower holes where the current is less and the fish lay in wait for goodies. the live bait should do the trick if you can get good lively minnows or chubs. on bottom. Maybe try a spray of the big W or some other stink on your hook treat. Look out for Falling Rock or Slippery Elm! Look at the bright side of things.....no drill no slush, no frozen bait,dead bats or hut blowing away.  ;D ;D


Maybe not as much as you think. The fish don't stop eating during the winter, they only change their hunting locations.
I, mistakenly, thought that fish went into some sort of hibernative state. I was wrong.

Because of the way the ice forms, and how the water in all bodies of water "turns over" every spring and fall, the fish will seek the thermocline layer best suited for their needs, and hunt there. That's one reason for using a fish finder, to see where the fish are hanging out.

I have found that in some places the larger fish are more active because they are eating more (prey has changed locations and are harder to find).
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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #8 on: Jan 08, 2023, 03:05 PM »
Bobber with a shiner... Or other live bait.

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #9 on: Jan 08, 2023, 04:29 PM »
Gee I thought I was the only crazy ice fisherman fishing in open water rather than on the top in the middle of January.

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #10 on: Jan 08, 2023, 05:19 PM »
As a few others have said, shiners with a bobber (preferably a stealthy water bobber) has been working for us for trout. We're pretty much tossing the shiners the same place we'd be putting them through ice.

The same thing works for pickerel bass and perch.

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #11 on: Jan 08, 2023, 05:50 PM »
Saw a few people today fishing from shore on lake passing to run around shopping. I wish that I could have fit in but had no time with a couple of jobs to do at home. We’ll see what happens with next week

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #12 on: Jan 11, 2023, 06:56 AM »
Hair jigs have not been mentioned. Hair jigs will catch everything this time of year. Drag it on the bottom, float it, or on a fly rod. Location will determine species.
Just add water.

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Re: How do you fish from shore......in the dead of winter?????
« Reply #13 on: Jan 11, 2023, 11:28 AM »
Hair jigs have not been mentioned. Hair jigs will catch everything this time of year. Drag it on the bottom, float it, or on a fly rod. Location will determine species.

I have some tied up on keitech super round jigheads that slay.  Not for brown bass though.

 



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