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On many lakes the biggest walleye are taken through the ice. Sunken islands & humps concentrate winter walleyes. A portable sonar is essential to good winter ice-fishing. Tip your jigging spoons with the head or tail of a minnow. For passive fish switch to small minnows and fish w/tipup. Lake trout will hit live suckers or frozen ciscos. Late ice perch will be near spring spawning grounds. Perch will spread over flats near a spawning bar. Try to catch smaller perch first...then go for deeper ones. When water warms walleye start moving to spawning grounds. Male walleyes becoming aggressive - females still hitting. Walleyes will take live minnows jigged thru the ice. Northerns will take large minnows or spoons jigged thru ice. |
Wisconsin Outdoor, Winter Ice Fishing Tips |
