Free Falling Tip

[Bull Giller]

So you drop your transducer down  the hole and your screen is lit up with fish. We get so excited and drop our baits down the hole like a bomb. Then the screen goes blank. I like to do a slow fluttering descend. Try this on your next outing and experiment. When the fish are aggressive sometimes it doesn't matter. But its the shy fish that like not having a jig bounced on their head.

[walleye tattoo]

True that remember if you are using a spinning reel and you dump the jig down it will be spinning like a top.

[Townie]

I always slow the jig drop by feathering line on reel spool.

[Fishrmn]

Caught the biggest fish of my life on a free falling 3/8 oz jig and minnow.  It quit falling.  I closed the bail.  Reeled up the slack.  And let him have it.  36" mac.

[Lrains]

Watch your flasher as your bait free falls you will catch more fish.

[Whopper Stopper]

Watching the flasher and type of fish targeted is the key. Some fish are much spookier than others.

              WS

[filetandrelease]

watch your electronics after the first drop or 2 you can read how its going to be at least with eyes and perch where i fish and i don't start small and most of my hottest baits are horizontals

[Harris625]

There is no need of using split-shots at time of jigging light ice lures. As split shots are fine for hard-water minnow and bobber fishing, but adding them to a free-falling ice lure completely alters the action. Because of the split shot falls faster and overwhelms the jig.



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