"Dead Sticking" in Ice Fishing

Video Transcript

"We're going to talk now about a jigging technique called dead sticking, and it's essentially what it sounds like. It's putting the jig on the bottom, and just letting your your stick, or your jig rod be dead, no movement. And this is a technique that one typically wants to use when when fish really aren't aren't biting that well, when they're not active. And typically, when I use that sort of technique is if I've been jigging for a while; I know there's there's fish in the area, either because others are catching them, or because of my fish finder. And if I'm not having any luck actively actively jigging, such as this; moving the rod tip up and down, not getting any bites, not attracting any fish, sometimes what what works when nothing else does, you drop that jig to the bottom, and then you bring up just enough, and you you lift your rod until you can just barely feel the weight, or see the rod tip start to bow a little bit, and that's where you keep it. And you just sit there; you don't, you try not to move it too much, and you just sit and wait for a bite, and I just actually just had a bite doing that."