Ice Fishing Tips for Perch

Video Transcript

"Alright, so here we are. We're going to be using hand line right now. We have a minnow on the bottom, which is still quite active, he'll go in the hole first. Then we've got the flasher attached and above that we've got an ice fly on a line leader. To unravel the hand line, the line on the hand line, it's done manually by hand around the forked area, the spool in the back. You want to let out your line until such time that it goes slack. You can see here that it's slack. That means that the flasher or the weight is on the bottom. Now since the hook and the bait is below the flasher we're going to need to bring the flasher back up so that it is off the bottom. We call these wraps. Each time around is a wrap. We're going to bring it three wraps up which is approximately three feet, going half way around twice and then we're about a foot and a half or one half the distance off the bottom. Now we've got a minnow that is down there on the very bottom with a flasher above it."