Good question T, here's my take: Ice fishing allows us to slow down and size down and perfect our presentation which can tempt even the sulkiest BG to bite as we're keeping that bait exactly in the strike zone, sometimes lifting a fish for 5 minutes before it commits. Obviously you can't come close to doing this in open water, and don't have the benefit of cameras or vexilars to narrow the focus to a specific fish.

I suspect if CNBG could survive under the ice we'd have similar experiences ice fishing for them. If I had open water right now I doubt I'd get many, if any, BG to the dock.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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