Finding Desired Depth for Ice Fishing

Video Transcript

"Alright, now the next thing we're going to need to do on a tip up is to find the depth, to find the bottom so that we know where to set our bait. If we're going to be using lake trout if we're fishing for lake trout, we're going to be staying right off of the bottom. If it's salmon, it's just six or eight feet under the ice. We want to hook this, called a sounder, to the snelled hook. This is a lead weight welded to an alligator clip. We want to hook that to the snell on the hook and drop it down the hole, laying out our line until such time that we get slack. When we have slack, we know we're on the bottom. There's our slack. We want to mark that and pull it up. Then we know exactly how much line to reel in so that we know that our bait is just off of the bottom."