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| There has been a lot of discussion on here about FFS and sharp shooting for musky. Yesterday there was a half hour tv show about Sharp Shooting on ice for walleye. It was an eye opener for me. They did it as a team, one guy set up his FFS and then directed two other guys to where there was a walleye. 30, 40 feet away, they quickly drilled holes and dropped on the fish. Sometimes they had to follow moving fish, with the guy directing them.
I understood how it works but to see it on ice, with a team was rather jarring. I have heard the argument that FFS is not much different than SI, which most of us have. Watch this show and tell me that. |
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Location: deephaven mn | you could do the same with side imaging on ice. i know of people doing it on Mille Lacs before livescope. i use side imaging for locating walleyes in summer as well. Livescope is better as it is a live image and not a still shot. is it cheating? yes but so is mapping gps |
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| kap - 12/24/2025 8:15 AM
you could do the same with side imaging on ice. i know of people doing it on Mille Lacs before livescope. i use side imaging for locating walleyes in summer as well. Livescope is better as it is a live image and not a still shot. is it cheating? yes but so is mapping gps
You might be able to see where fish were with SI, but you are not going to see them react to a bait in real time. The guy with FFS was actually coaching the teammate on where to put his bait. I have two different SI units and I am not doing that with either.
And doing it from 40 feet away? |
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Location: deephaven mn | side imaging can tell you where to drill the hole as where as where to cast in the summer. caught lots of fish off side imaging in summer .and yes 80 feet away. the team effort on ice can be very efficent. you can see them react in real time on a flasher |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I haven't been Ice fishing in years it's just gotten too warm to fish in town, we have had one snow storm and even rain this winter. When I look up at the mountains there hardly any snow. I've herd of people calling in the go on ski trip over to show up for work due to lack of snow. When I did fish we would punch a bunch of holes, pull up my Clam flip the lid down and we could look down in the hole and see if there was fish. Put the FL-18 down and watch your jig and catch fish, then move to the next hole and repeat. It was 69 degrees on Christmas Eve and 70 on Christmas here in Denver. I go out to feed and water the birds in the morning and most mornings the bird bath is not frozen over. We are going to get cold and even a little snow this weekend. |
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