i ice fish a particular lake alot and during the summer i catch bass and trout and sunnys all the time but in the winter i only catch trout. i dont like bass and dont want to catch them but i was curious why i never dragged one through the ice. as many trout i drag outta there i would think that eventually i would have picked up a bass. besides trout being cold water fish and bass not any other reasons you can think of?
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thats exactly the thing about bass their not coldwater fish so they kinda go in to a hybernation type of mode. were its like a person while they are sleep walking. so they aren't very active. and trout on the other hand are active in the winter, same with pike.
fishguts, i assume you are in wi if you are by scubasteve.......i fished big cedar lake in washington county a couple times in feb. i saw a guy pull up 3 large mouths on medium to large shiners in a matter of a couple hrs. all looked to be between 16-18 inches long and very fat. another guy caught one the same size about 100 yds away. about 2.5 weeks ago i was jigging with a small hook and waxie and pulled up a 13 inch largie. it fell off at the hole. water depth was about 6-12 ft and among vegetation
What? While they don't feed as aggresivly in the winter as they do in the summer they don't hibernate. I catch them all the time on minnows all the time through the ice. What are you using as bait? Are you scoping the hole or fishing blind?