Advanced Jigging in Ice Fishing

Video Transcript

"Lets talk now about how to officially jig the entire water column, while you're jigging, when ice fishing. Say you're in twenty feet of water, fish are likely, during the Winter, going to be hanging out probably towards that lower five feet of the water column but some days they're not, some days they're going to be at mid-depth. Occasionally they're going to be right under the ice. If you have a fish finder, it easy to tell where the fish are, for the most part. However, if you don't have a fish finder and even if you do, it's a good idea to try and jig that entire water column. Again, because you never know where the fish are going to be. What I like to do is to start from the bottom because it's always easy to tell where the bottom is. You just lower that jig all the way down until it hits bottom and your line stops moving. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to reel it up, a couple turns, and simply sit there and jig. One, two, three, four minutes, at that depth. If I don't catch anything, I'm going to bring it up maybe five, six turns, which equates to another couple feet. I'm going to jig at that, if I don't catch anything, I'm just going to continue upwards, slowly moving up two, three, four feet, every two three minutes until I get to just under the ice and I'm going to see where the fish are. That's going to determine where I'm going to jig."