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nice tip on stretching the line out before you go.
How do you guys "stretch" the line? Is it as simple and just working it with you hands just prior to first dropping down the hole?Getting ready.......early ice this year!!!
i never heard of it either and would like to hear how its done. only thing i can think of is pull a bunch of line to a floor and pinch the line as you reel it back up like you do when you spool a reel
i use one of these for fly fishing leaders, never thought to use it for ice fishinghttp://www.gorgeflyshop.com/store/pc/Dr-Slick-Leader-Straightener-p5181.htm?gclid=CI2_ia-AnLsCFQ7xOgodxz4AfQ#.UqH5S-KFcro
Hush......................Big ones do on many lakes in the same areas the dinks inhabit during the day. Catch plenty of flak on the subject which leaves even more for me. Hush........So do Perch on some lakes
I stumbled onto this one eve. on a really slow day for gills. Figured I'd stay with the lantern and try for crappies. Right about when the last car left the lake I started banging big gills, just as it got dark. Kept about eight and fished well after dark just for fun. A pattern that repeats consistently on that lake. BTW I also stretch my line; I hook it on something on my porch and pull off twenty plus feet against a stiff drag. Then real back in with the rod bent.