They are easily spooked so make longer casts if you are on foot, stay a bit back from shore. If you are in a boat, be careful and quiet.

After you get a strike, don’t act too quickly. Wait a second before lifting rod – you will hook more this way.

Walleyes, Use Waders At Night

It is fairly well known that Walleyes favor low-light conditions. They can be found in water only 3-4 feet deep looking for perch. Using a pair of waders you can go for them.

Some recommendations are to use a light spinning rod equipped with 8-12 pound test line, and some minnow imitations.

You can find them at points where deep water is near. Scout for baitfish feeding on plankton – sooner or later Walleyes will show up.

Trout, Midges

If your luck is not good with early season trout, try a few patterns of midges. Mosquito larva or pupa, in sizes 12-20 is good. If it is early in season, fish it deep.

Catfish, Bait

Follow these steps to make a bait catfish just can’t resist:

1 pound of chicken livers (including blood) 1 cup of yellow cornmeal While mixing with hands (squeeze hard), add more cornmeal until a sticky paste forms Add cotton balls, pulling apart each one and add clumps to mixture (use 12, they keep everything together in water) Add more cornmeal until you can make individual balls without them sticking to your hand Freeze until ready

To bait up, pinch some dough and set it on your hook – catfish will go crazy for this mixture!

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For crappies, use a Swedish Pimple jiggling spoon, Rapala ice fishing plug or live minnows fished on No. 2 to 6 hooks. Crappies can suspend at just about any depth, from a few feet below ice to just off bottom, in water from five to 20 feet deep. Move often.

Yellow perch – use same baits as for crappies and bluegills. Also try jigging spoons sweetened with eye from a freshly caught perch or a tiny strip of meat sliced from a perch or bluegill.

Trout – shoal areas, mouths of inlets, and points have produced most rainbows, browns and brookies through ice. You can catch them on about every kind of bait or lure you can think of. Wet flies and nymphs with a sp lit-shot crimped a foot above for weight are good, as are minnows, spinners, jigging spoons and ice rapalas.

Pickerel, Pike, Muskies – live minnows or dead ones rigged to hang horizontally in water are best producers. Tip-ups allow you to spread your baits over a wide area in weedy coves and on points where these predators rove under frozen lake’s surface searching for prey.

Walleyes – reefs, points, inlets and outlets are good spots for ice walleyes. Live minnows, jigging Rapalas, Swedish Pimples, Hopkins and Gay Blades are consistent producers.

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