Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - April 2019

when it’s down there, so we use a small tungsten jig. We actually were using some Sunline fluoro- carbon ice line , it’s nice to fish a braid because you get the sensitivity of it, but when it’s this cold outside. That ice just sticks to that braid and your line will get so filled up you can’t even get it to run through the guides or anything, so we’re actually fishing the Sunline Ice line, and it’s a fluorocarbon because it’s a little bit more abrasion resistance here on the ice. And it’s also, it doesn’t freeze up, which is nice. I’m fishing a six pound, I think Josh is fishing a three pound, but it gives you just a lit- tle bit more stretch with mono, but the fluorocar- bon is nice and sturdy so you can still set the hook into these fish pretty good, even in that 30 feet of water. So the quality crappies, the bigger crappies, and the more active fish were definitely in the front of the school. And so, we’d look on Panoptix where the school was, we’d run over, drill a hole, and we’d catch some of those active fish, but as soon as that school moved on, we had to keep following it to stay with ‘em, so I mean, I think by the end of the afternoon when we were done with that crappie mission, we’d probably drilled close to 75 holes to a hundred holes. It would be absolutely impossible without Panoptix to stay on ‘em today, the way they are. It’s all worth it at the end, we’re finally caught some big crappies and that’s what we set out here to do and just goes to show you what Panoptix can do, this is a lake I have never been to, these guys have only been to it a couple of times, and we just looked at the map on our lake view map, found a spot that looked good, and came out here, searched on those Panoptix, vwe’re able to look 150 feet with that Panoptix, they’d probably even be on that, I think we’ve seen some fish even farther than that. It’s always a good time when you can get out on the lake and catch some fish and whether we catch fish or not, we always have a great time out here, it’s about being with friends and just finding

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Caught on the Garmin Virb Danny & Josh celebrate this good looking crappie.

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