With the help of veteran NAIFC ice tournament competitor, Shawn Bjonfald, several fishing buddies, and family, we put the top three forward-facing ice sonar combos through paces from December 2022 until March 2023
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Small animal imitations and propeller carrying hardbodies can be cast well ahead on spin gear and enable river edges, snags and shady pockets to be explored prior to being disturbed by the angler
Half of those fish were hand-cranked, and the rest came on electric reels, says Stanczyk, who added electric reels to his repertoire around 2014
Drifting the same big weedy flat over 35 to 50 FOW turned up nothing except one missed trout
Both of these places are hot spots for Paddlefish during the same months