Something being overlooked is looking into the life of the winter waterbody.
What the aquatic insect cycles are. The ' hatch', or different stages of the hatch, is still happening in the winter with certain bugs and freshwater invertibrates. Even the minnow fish have mating and schooling patterns that can effect the bite.
Sometimes while ice fishing the fish on the bottom are not biting. If you come up to a foot or two under the ice they may hit every time. Might indicate a 'hatch' stage occuring at certain depths. The different hatch stages might happen in hours or days. Smaller wireworms will catch more whitefish early in the winter, only because the freshwater shrimp (what the wireworm hook resembles) are smaller in late fall.
Is this an influence of the bite?, maybe.
Last edited by Red Bullets; 01-12-2012 at 11:58 PM.
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