Anyone else having trouble too?

[EasternCentralNY21]

I have been fishing every day since last mon/tues and have gotten skunked every time. It has to be something with the weather im starting to get discouraged...

[fishwithdis]

Where have you been fishing?....are you using fresh bait....have you tried different bait or perch eyes(if you can catch them) or even setting all your tipups to different depths

[Pikeplower32]

Where have you been able to get out that much already. Are on top of the fish.  Move around you gotta find em.

[deadsmelthead]

Best cure for skunk slump is go Pickerel fishing... works everytime...

[IceBalls]

Here's a possibility....... BAROMETRIC PRESSURE !!

We stopped in a bait shop at Schroon Lake some years ago with the intention of buying some bait and fishing the lake.  The bait shop owner told us "  I'd be glad to sell you bait, but to be perfectlly honest, THE BAROMETER IS FALLING FAST AND YOU'LL BE WASTING YOUR TIME ON THE LAKE TODAY "  Apparently, a Low or Falling Barometer turns off the fish bite !!  I don't know ...................... ....

[roundlakeNY]

Its the mid January slump it usually runs from the 19th to end of Jan.  That has been my observations over the years.

[NatefishNY]

Its the mid January slump it usually runs from the 19th to end of Jan.  That has been my observations over the years.

Yep, sounds like the mid season slow down

[NNYIceangler]

How can it be a mid season slump when most people have only been on the ice a few times and the fishing never even started off good.  Everyone has been complaining around here that the fishing sucks everywhere.

[NatefishNY]

Just because there wasn't safe ice until later this year doesn't change the time of year, and this time of year is generally slower then others

[bigZin315]

ive been out over a dozen times so far and ive done OK 3 of the times and caught a few the rest of the times out but havent been skunked yet

[EasternCentralNY21]

I started out good i had one pike on luzerne and two largemouths and a couple perch on summit lake in argyle but that was in the beggining of the month. since like the 10th I have not had any luck

[NiagaraJiggin]

I've had my kayak out a few times the past month and the bite was great and then started to slow once the ice started forming again - definitely seems like the mid-winter slump starting. Use smaller jigs and bait and a little less jigging action - they will hit.... they are still hungry, the fish just change their feeding patterns to smaller food sources....

[EasternCentralNY21]

do you think they moved shallower or deeper?

[NiagaraJiggin]

depends on the fish and foodsources - big gills and crappie will be deeper in warmer water coming in to feed late - smaller ones will still hang around where they were - weeds and edges
pike are a cold water fish so they will be anywhere - especially in the shallows where the smaller fish are

[hunts2long]

The guys I have talked to at the bait shop are saying the bite has been slow. They are catching a few but not many...It will improve....hunts2long

[RIVERRAT2]

Here's a possibility....... BAROMETRIC PRESSURE !!

We stopped in a bait shop at Schroon Lake some years ago with the intention of buying some bait and fishing the lake.  The bait shop owner told us "  I'd be glad to sell you bait, but to be perfectlly honest, THE BAROMETER IS FALLING FAST AND YOU'LL BE WASTING YOUR TIME ON THE LAKE TODAY "  Apparently, a Low or Falling Barometer turns off the fish bite !!  I don't know ...................... ....

YOU ARE RIGHT,i just go to MY SPOT when times are tough,and get pannies
 
RAT

[harrops26]

I thought the action has picked since Saturday when compared to late   December and early January.

[stripermancl]

fish at night

[EasternCentralNY21]

yeah jon that day was dictated by having to bring my girlfriend to college at 8 but the other days i go out before the sun comes up and dont come back until its too dark to see your hand in front of your face. I am gonna try something different though i went and picked up a pack of size 10 and 14 hooks gonna try them out on some small minnows see if size is whats killing me

[EasternCentralNY21]

yeah i have a 2 foot 6lb mono leader with size 8 hooks now. thinking there too big as for spread... i need to get a xd card reader before i can upload pics but lets just say one could get winded walking to them lol

[reddog11]

Go up to Schroon lake.

[roundlakeNY]

Unless you're using tiny baits (cup bait), there's no real need to go that small on hooks.  Hmmmm.  What pound test and length leaders?  Try putting all 5 tipups far apart and completely different locations.  Weeds, weedlines, deep water, shallow,

mix and match.  If you're doing all that and leaders are appropriate, it's probably a matter of keep on doing what you're doing.  It'll pick up sometime.   Oh and check the silly things, like make sure gas didn't spill on your tipups.

You know what's funny one year I had my old jiffy and it always dripped hee and there. I went for the longest time not catching anything then I bought a new hand auger and started slamming them again. 

[step2jimi]

was that one of those old augers you got off me? if so I'm glad I could help turn your season around haha. my season has been ok so far. have yet to get skunked but havnt had any really stellar days either.

[EasternCentralNY21]

Go up to Schroon lake.

saturday hopefully but i also have access to paradox so maybe a little of both...

[BALLSTHATCLANK]

Best cure for skunk slump is go Pickerel fishing... works everytime...



LOL, This is exactly what I did! I beat up on some pickeral and then went up to schroon and caught and released a few nice lakers with my son.