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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Fishing Gem #6 – Listen Up!

When you fish after dark, always be alert for signs of feeding fish. At night your normally hear feeding fish before you see their swirls or splashes. When you hear a fish break surface, chuck your lure to spot as soon as possible. Remember that fish often have trouble locating a lure at night, so make repeated casts to spots you think hold fish.

Fishing Gem #7 – Deep Water Essential

Under deep-water conditions, you should to use a bait-caster in combination with a long graphite rod that has a lot of backbone. This setup will enable you to move a lot of line and will ensure a solid hook set in deeper water. In addition, you should also utilize your black light to carefully watch bow in your line to detect subtle strikes as bait drops. These tactics will produce when fish are holding to a deep-water pattern and most other areas are not producing.

Fishing Gem #8 – It Ain’t All Peaches And Cream On A Boat!

The possible downsides of night fishing are that you need to limit your group socializing and partying; it just won’t work if you want to catch fish. It’s also not recommended for young children, and not for more than 2 to a boat, unless boat is large. If you had to ride out a storm, it would be a bit scarier than in day. If fishing is good (which it usually is at night), be willing to alter your sleep patterns.

Fishing Gem #9 – Lake Fishing Keys To Success

Main lake points offer excellent opportunities to catch fish at night. If action slows down, come back later and you can catch additional fish from exact same point.

Colors ranging from red/black, blue/black, green/black to chartreuse/orange seem to work well on all lakes throughout summer. It is wise to carry a wide assortment of colors, weights, and blade sizes to meet demands of fish.

Main lake points and secondary points are key areas that attract fish at night throughout summer months. Basically, fish are inactive during day due to hot temperatures and will suspend in deep water off of points. However they will move onto points at night to ambush schools of baitfish. These locations are fairly easy to locate and can be fished very quickly allowing you to cover a lot of water in a short period of time.

Fishing Gem #10 – Live-Bait Catching!

Obviously have some bait jigs ready when you need to replenish your stock of live bait on board. For rapid bait catching, Evening Secret is one of best solutions, especially at night.

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