Thanks fellas, appreciate it! Anytime you can lip a Perch like a Smallmouth it’s a blessing and a heck of a lot of fun too! I love feeling that machine gun action on the line. Most people will lose as many or more as they hook up on or fail altogether to get them to bite so attention to detail in that department is super essential to success on these big guys. A few of the biggest fish in the pictures turned out actually to be males. Big giant 12” and 12-1/2” males, we were thrilled and also quite surprised getting those big grandpas! The males are so much better table fare we find anyways and they filet better too! Like I said it’s a process of finding them first, then technique and presentation to quickly seal the deal. They can be like ghosts, here now and gone again in a flash. Action can be fast and furious. Get up and down like your saving lives. You have to find something that they can’t resist investigating and by that I mean charging in and mouthing your bait as opposed to charging in, stopping, finning backwards and backing away. You guys know what I am talking about, I’m sure many of you have witnessed this ugly phenomenon before like I have. I’ve studied this for perhaps hundreds if not a thousand frustrating as hell hours while on the ice with a camera fine tuning presentation. Now we can turn the table on them. When we find we can usually catch wherever they may swim. Most guys don’t even know if they are there or not in open water. They have a highly developed sense of curiosity and when you are able to find them, then find something that they absolutely must put in their mouth, have the right equipment deployed, and aren’t sleeping at the switch it’s machine gun time again! I love it, but it’s both sickness and elixir!
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