Webster, even the experienced still get unnerved by this.
I was out near Burton this past Friday by myself as I was trying to avoid the tip up pike gang in Hathaway. Figured I could jig perch without pike and the augers messing things up.
Anyhow, there was lots of snap, crackle popping, but when a large pressure crack developed behind me about 50 yards away, that rattled me...I moved in closer to Kill Kare's boat launch then.
Ironic part is that perch we not biting out in deeper water, even though I was marking some suspended about 4 feet off the bottom they wouldn't bite minnows, spikes, eyes or plastics. When I moved into 20 FOW near the boat launch there was much less ice noise and the perch were biting but they were all dinks less than 8"
I do wonder if the ice noise scares off the slabs.
