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Originally Posted by fishermansfriend
crazy but in all seriousness who wants to fish like that with a million other people around!!
thats ridiculous |
It depends, I normally hate it, but..
The best ice fishing memories I have is fishing for Zander back home in March when fish gathers in large schools and starts moving around before the spawn. Zander looks close to walleye, but way bigger (the largest we caught with my dad was ~26lbs in summer)
Fishing starts with people really spread around on some area of a big reservoir (~160km long and 20 km wide).
Everyone thinks he knows where the fish will be, BUT if you are serious about this type of fishing you need to bring and use the most important piece of equipment – binocular.
So if you start catching fish you try keep it quiet, no yelling, running, no big arm movement – somebody is glassing you too.
If somebody else is catching, you need to know and recognize moving patterns fishermen develop when they start following the school and leisurely move closer and in front to them to intercept the fish.
When critical mass of people on fish is reached and fish becomes impossible to hide - fishing frenzy begins with a crowd of 50-200 people trying to intercept constantly moving fish. You can hand drill 20-30 holes through ~120cm ice before the school is lost, a lot of fun and more like a hunt than a quiet time on the ice.
Right now I hear that Zander (introduced in reservoir) is less prevalent, and native fish is coming back, more perch (some big), pike and even burbot(which I’ve never heard of there 20 years ago). River seems to come back to it's original balance.
But it was a lot of fun fishing with a “million” people
Sorry for the long story
Ice fishing for Cars/SUV
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