01-24-2023, 02:09 AM
Hmmm, that's interesting, quite literally it's everything I do. Thinking back now on one of my favorite perch lakes I tried a new area one day, I'll start off ice trolling with 4 - 6 holes, see what happens, this day I spent a bit time with no action, so I moved a bit and did the same thing after a bit of seeing nothing I wandered over to a few other guys to see how the fishing was, after a bit I went back and discovered that I had no bait on my lures, I rebooted and sent it back down, after jigging and nothing I set the rod down, after a few minutes I saw a fish head for the jig, after a barely perceptible bite I caught a nice perch, so I started jigging a bit then let the jig sit and here comes one off of bottom, ended up with a few decent perch that day. On another lake we headed out to where we had success before, caught a few, but was slow, so started moving around and would get one here and there, but eventually found some decent fish, took a few hours, but came home with some nice perch and kokes that day, so change is good. I'll try different jigs/lures all the time, even on days when the bite is hot I'll change lures/jigs to see what does and doesn't work especially if I have something new.