Invite tonight pineview 1/19/19

[L-D-R]

A friend and I will be fishing off cemetery point tonight .. red Eskimo fatfish 949 I'll hang a glow stick off the tent about 100 yards north of cemetery point come say hi
Good luck
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[wiperhunter2]

So how did you do, any decent crappie or perch?
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[L-D-R]

Did ok close to a limit I ended up with 16 nice ones and around 10 4 to 5 inchers no perch my buddy got 11
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[wiperhunter2]

Wow, you did good, not many members catching that many. What colored jig worked the best for you?
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[L-D-R]

Glow tear drop tungsten tipped with meal worm
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[wiperhunter2]

When fishing at night like that, how often do you have to charge your jigs. Thanks for the info.
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[Springbuck]

Good job, dude! I've been hesitant to try this year, but may try to join you briefly on Wednesday.

As a lesson to us all, let me recount a failure in my own thinking I just noticed. I had given up on mealworms for most of my icefishing long ago. I have heard good things about the "giant" ones at Strawberry, sometimes, and when I started icefishing, I bought them a lot. Mealworms were cheaper, every store had them, and the rumor was that fish wouldn't much bite regular earthworms much through the ice.

However, my first dozen trips out or so, they seemed to perform very poorly on Pineview perch and Mantua bluegills compared to both spikes and waxworms. When I found and bought some waxies, my success jumped. I stopped buying mealies almost entirely. Last few times I bought mealworms was because they were out of everything else. I once bought CRICKETS over mealworms at the pet store due to my lack of faith in them. (Side note; bluegills at Mantua seem to distrust crickets through the ice.)

Over the years, I went back to regular earthworms (nightcrawlers, etc.) for some situations, esp. trout, perch, and LMB at Mantua. But, now here YOU are telling me that I was wrong all along about crappies and mealworms. [shocked][] I have caught crappies up there tipped with waxworms, spikes, perch eyes, perch strips, chub chunks, Crappie Nuggets, Gulp Minnows, Gulp Maggots, red worms, soldier-fly grubs, and grass shrimp. I must be an idiot, but it never even occurred to me that mealies might outfish any or all of those on a given day.

Let that be a lesson to me.
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