Gulpin' on Ice!

[Fat Boy]

A pic from my last trip.  I had a hard time catching fish on the small stuff, so I tried using gulp minnows on jigheads and also nose hooked on a hali jig, and the fish loved them.  I was using my camera and every fish I saw bit.  These are the largest ones of the 8 fish landed (out of 10 fish that showed up on the camera) after putting this on.  It was a slow day on the ice, but man did they love these things.  I'll be using them more often!

[holehawg]

real nice catch.....i'll be trying the hali with real shiners this weekend....

[JiggerMan]

Kevin i was wondering if those gulp baits would work like like that.  I caught a few walleyes and perch last winter from a lake and each of them had leeches in there bellies so i went out and bought some of the gulp leeches to see if they would work but i have not used them yet through the ice

[Fat Boy]

I'm a believer for sure! 

On a related Gulp note, this summer I went drift fishing with a buddy of mine using spreader rigs with bloodworms for croaker.  I got tired of dealing with the mess of using those worms, so I decided to try for something bigger, maybe a flounder or sea trout.  So, I put a 1/4 oz. jighead on with a white gulp grub and immediately got hits but couldn't hook them.  Meanwhile my buddy is yanking up nice croakers 2 at a time, so I cut some strips off the tail and put them on my spreader rig, and caught croakers on them at the same rate as my buddy, 2 at a time.  In the end, I wound up catching more fish than him because I didn't have to stop and bait the hooks as often.  The croakers had a hard time stealing the bait, but liked to engulf them just as much.  It was fun, but got me thinking about trying it for other species.  I bought these Gulp minnows to use for steelhead, but instead found out that they worked great for smallies in our streams close to home...now I carry them everywhere I fish where predators are common.  I was surprised though how the perch loved them so much!  I have tried the Gulp maggots, etc. with very limited success, but the red gulp worms worked pretty well when I cut them into small pieces and tipped my jigs with them on bluegills.

[Preacher_man]

 Thanks for the great info, Kevin! I have used jigs tipped with the gulp grubs on walleyes in Canada with good sucess! But I'll have to give them a try, ice fishing! WTG!!

[waltergill]

nice fish

[flag-up22]

nice sponsorship..ya sold me!

[Fat Boy]

nice sponsorship..ya sold me!

Hah!  Man, a sponsorship would be nice for sure.  Those babies ain't cheap.  I've had good success with other soft plastics through the ice for panfish in the past, so the concept isn't new to me.  What surprised me was the aggressiveness to these particular ones.  Would others have worked in that situation?  Maybe so.  I guess had the fish been really turned on then I'd say definitely, but the fish were fairly picky that day...  hmmm....  So given those circumstances and my success using those products in other fishing situations, I'd say that I'm confident that they work well enough for me to expand my use of them through the ice!  Hey, on a day when you may be planning on jigging with some live minnows and, oops, you forget to buy them, something like this might save the day for ya.

[klino2280]

I wondered about the Gulp through the ice as well. I'll have to throw it in the box of gear tomorrow. I am a VERY firm believer in using the GULP ALIVE shaky worm set up weedless on a 1/0 hook with no weight and casting up onto the shore and slowly drawing back into the shallows of the water on ponds, lakes, and streams and catch lunker bass with the GULP ALIVE( the kind in the seal-able pint sized container.) I just wonder if that will work well.

[luv2fish24/7]

nice perch and good looking piceral too!

[Water Wolf]

Nice perch and pickerel Fat Boy.

I have had not bad luck with the Gulp Alive maggots and waxworms.

WW

[Border Jumper]

Nice lookin perch you caught.