color depth would be where you can see the fish - ever seen people off shore fish and they say "i see color" it means you're close to the boat/surface

Ice fishing is easy, fish where the fish are - the active fish, that are willing to bite.

The number one thing you can do to increase your catch rate is to know where the fish are and how they are responding - use sonar. Get a vexilar, marcum, humminbird or garmin sonar and use it to locate fish. You can easily adapt a boat sonar to use on ice


Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP