01-18-2012, 04:34 PM
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I will probably be pestering quite a few of you for your expertise.
I year or two ago I would have said there wasn't much chance of my ice fishing, but I had a different idea of what ice fishing was, or rather what you could do with the techniques. Plus I had other winter activities that kept me busy then. I need something more now to keep the "shack nasties" away! [
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Anyway I went out fly fishing and looking at the rivers around here the other day, and there was only one place that I could fish. All of the other places had slush and ice chunks floating down. I will still be out on the rivers and streams that are open in the warmer days to come, but I needed a change of pace and the more I looked at ice fishing the more I realized it is just deep nymphing with limited access points. [laugh] I know that it won't replace dry fly fishing for me, but I can see a lot of ways to use this technique on those days that are colder, but I still want to get out somewhere.
The rod maybe smaller and the line all mono, but it is still using flies and nymphs. It is fun figuring out what will be attractive to fish that are under 12 inches of ice with no hatches coming off. I don't know how well some of them will work, but I'm excited to try.
So far I sure don't know what I am doing ice fishing, but I think it is going to be fun learning. Different, but interesting and fun. Thanks to all for the informative posts on here! [cool]
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I year or two ago I would have said there wasn't much chance of my ice fishing, but I had a different idea of what ice fishing was, or rather what you could do with the techniques. Plus I had other winter activities that kept me busy then. I need something more now to keep the "shack nasties" away! [
][blush]Anyway I went out fly fishing and looking at the rivers around here the other day, and there was only one place that I could fish. All of the other places had slush and ice chunks floating down. I will still be out on the rivers and streams that are open in the warmer days to come, but I needed a change of pace and the more I looked at ice fishing the more I realized it is just deep nymphing with limited access points. [laugh] I know that it won't replace dry fly fishing for me, but I can see a lot of ways to use this technique on those days that are colder, but I still want to get out somewhere.
The rod maybe smaller and the line all mono, but it is still using flies and nymphs. It is fun figuring out what will be attractive to fish that are under 12 inches of ice with no hatches coming off. I don't know how well some of them will work, but I'm excited to try.
So far I sure don't know what I am doing ice fishing, but I think it is going to be fun learning. Different, but interesting and fun. Thanks to all for the informative posts on here! [cool]
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