02-10-2009, 04:27 AM
Well welcome to the forum. The reason glow works is that a lake that is covered with a foot or so of ice and a foot of snow is very dark. The glow just attracts them in the darker water. Once they get close the scent of the bait and action of lure entices the bite.
A rat finkie is a very small jig that has a rubber body. Do a google search on them and search images. Sportsmans Warehouse has a good selection of ice stuff. They can hook you up. I personaly dont like rat finkies. I would get you some blue radical glow jigs two inches or smaller. Some maniac ice cutrs I like the white with red flake and some 1/16th ounce white jig heads to put it all together. Next buy some chub minnows and wax worms and tip your jigs with small peices of the minnow or worms.
Hope that helps you get a good start. Oh and I dont have the money for electronics so i just drill holes till I find a depth I want to fish and I start fishing. If I am not catching fish in 30 minutes, I move.
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A rat finkie is a very small jig that has a rubber body. Do a google search on them and search images. Sportsmans Warehouse has a good selection of ice stuff. They can hook you up. I personaly dont like rat finkies. I would get you some blue radical glow jigs two inches or smaller. Some maniac ice cutrs I like the white with red flake and some 1/16th ounce white jig heads to put it all together. Next buy some chub minnows and wax worms and tip your jigs with small peices of the minnow or worms.
Hope that helps you get a good start. Oh and I dont have the money for electronics so i just drill holes till I find a depth I want to fish and I start fishing. If I am not catching fish in 30 minutes, I move.
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