How to choose and adjust the drift when ice fishing

How to choose the drift and adjust the drift when ice fishing

First, choose the drift

In the process of ice fishing, the fishing group is not to increase the drop force? The key component is the float, which is the most important part of the ice fishing. The key component is the float. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right float to eliminate and reduce the falling force of the whole fishing group, so as to increase the catch.

To choose the right float for ice fishing, one should not use the centipede float (also called star float). Because the centipede drift is easy to be frozen, lose their role.

Secondly, it is not advisable to use a large float with a large buoyancy. Because of the large number of drift (5 and above) than the small number of drift, in the water, once the balance of the fishing group is broken, it produces the falling force is also larger, the fish eat bait not only need a larger force to hook bait sucked into the mouth, but also in the bite of the hook after pulling the water line, the float to use a larger force, easy to cause the fish to be vigilant, and with the ice fishing fish to eat bait action is slight, sucking the characteristics of the weakness of the weak, very much affecting the catch. This will affect the catch. Therefore, if you choose to use the same kind of drift, you need to choose a smaller drift with less buoyancy (No.3 and below).

Thirdly, a smaller float with less buoyancy is not suitable for a thick-tailed float (e.g., a traditional float with a diameter of 4 millimeters for traditional fishing). Because the same reason, thick tail drift than fine tail drift buoyancy many times (I once did an experiment, has been the drift tail diameter of 2 millimeters of floating, and a tail diameter of 1 millimeter of floating, in order to make these two floats can be in the water to maintain equilibrium, the former used 9 grams of lead pendant, while the latter only use 3 grams of lead pendant), the balance is broken, the thick-tailed drift produced by the falling force, will be more than the fine-tailed drift produced by the falling force of many times. The force generated by the thick-tailed drift will be many times greater than that generated by the thin-tailed drift.

The conclusion is: use a fine-tailed small-sized drift; and use a longer fine-tailed small-sized drift. Because this kind of drift in the water after the balance, the stability of good performance, easy to absorb the weak fish, especially small carp, the bait sucked into the mouth. Fourthly, when choosing the fine-tailed long-bodied trumpet drift, it is best to choose the float that you are familiar with and use smoothly. Under what circumstances is this float still suspended? What is the action of the float when the fish starts to eat the hook? What is the behavior of the float that the fish has already eaten the bait in the mouth? These situations you are familiar with, Zhexi float language you can read, and this will create conditions for you to catch more fish, there is a guarantee. If you are not familiar with the float used, then you have to experience and summarize it in the ice fishing practice.

The second thing to do

How to adjust the drift? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at what you're doing, and you'll be able to see what you're doing, and you'll be able to see it. But it should be known that the ice fishing drift and spring, summer and fall drift, although the purpose is the same, are designed to let the fish actively eat bait, more bites, more fish, to increase the fishing catch, but the focus is different. In spring, summer and fall, the air and water temperatures are high, and the fish act quickly, eat the bait smoothly, and have strong suction power, so there is no problem of sucking the bait but not entering the mouth (of course, if the hooks and baits are big, they will hinder the entrance of the hooks and baits, which is a problem of the hooks and baits, and has nothing to do with the drifting), and the drifting focuses on how to let the fish eat the bait, and the message of the bites is reacted promptly to the floating in time, in other words, the focus is to consider the sensitivity of the fishing set. In other words, the focus is on the sensitivity of the fishing set.

Under normal circumstances, it's better to be a bit more flexible. But ice fishing is different. Because ice fishing is carried out in the cold winter and early spring, the air and water temperatures are extremely low, the drift focusing on how to make the fish can smoothly inhale the hook bait into the mouth, eat into the mouth, in order to be able to more fishing. Of course, we also need to consider the sensitivity of the fishing group, but not the more spirit the better, but the spirit, blunt appropriate, is how to make slow-moving, weak sucking force of the fish, not only can be smooth inhalation of the hook bait into the mouth, but also timely, rapid response to the message of the fish after the bite to the floating up. There is a focus, but both should be taken into account, so the ice fishing drift is much more complex than the spring, summer and fall drift.

According to our many years of experience in ice fishing, ice fishing drift is not appropriate to drift fishing like spring, summer, fall, the part of the surface of the water is too high, the number of eyes is too much, such as adjusting the 5 fishing 4, adjusting the 8 fishing 6, etc. Because the drift is too high, the number of eyes is too high, the number of eyes is too high, the number of eyes is too high. Because the tune is too high, the number of eyes too much, under the ice hook bait is not easy to be sucked into the mouth of the fish, but also not easy to bite the fish after the message in a timely and rapid response to the float up. Secondly, it is also inappropriate to adjust the drift fishing part of the water surface is too low, too few, such as adjusting flat water, fishing flat water, or even fishing underwater. The reason is that the float is too low and the surface is too small, so the float is easily affected by the tension of the water surface.

Because of the low water temperature water molecule density increased water resistance produced by the increase in the hole ice and other resistance to the impact of the float must be difficult, both to the fish suction bait to increase the resistance to the loss of a good opportunity to raise the rod, affecting the fishing catch. So, how to adjust the ice fishing? In my opinion, the float should be adjusted to the surface of the water part of the relatively low, the number of eyes is relatively small, should be adjusted in the range of not spirit, fishing is not blunt, it is best to adjust with the spirit of not a little bit of spirit compared to fishing and not blunt compared to a little bit of blunt. Specifically, let the float flow out of the water for half an eye, so that the float implies about half an eye on the pulling force, to the fish bite after pulling the float when there is a half an eye on the starting force.

According to our experience, after hanging up the worm bait, the float will be pulled down about 1 eye, which is, the lower hook to the bottom of the brain line bending about half an eye, we fish 1 eye to 1 eye and a half, the lower hook will be basically lying on the bottom, the upper hook basically touch the bottom. Such a hook and bait state, will strengthen the temperature of the float in the water, thus also strengthening the stability of the hook and bait in the water is not easy to shake, easy to eat bait action is slight, weak suction power of the fish, have more time, more opportunities, the hook and bait inhaled into the mouth. When a fish bites the hook and pulls the float through the waterline, with the help of the half-meter upward pull implicit in the float itself, the fish will not need much force to make the float move. This is a good way to make sure that the weakest fish are able to feed well, but also to ensure that the message of the fish biting the hook is reacted to the float in a timely and rapid manner, which can greatly improve the catch.

Here, it is worth mentioning that the drift should be adjusted in this order:

The first step is to adjust the drift with empty hook and half water, so that the drift tail is exposed to the water for about half an eye. This is the first step you should take whenever you change fishing grounds.

The second step is to move the float higher to find the bottom, so that the part of the float exposed to the surface of the water for more than half an eye, to reach more than 1 eye, a few more tries, and so on, that means to find the bottom.

The third step, and then down stroke float. The distance you stroke down is just half an eye above the float.

The fourth step is to hang up the bait and move the float up to the fishing eye (1 eye or 1.5 eye) position, then you can start fishing. Some anglers like to ? A tune fishing for life? , empty hook half-water drift once to determine the number of adjustments, fishing mesh, to which fishing grounds to go, and no longer re-adjust the drift, it began to find the bottom. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you're ready to go.

Timing, so that the fishing, due to different fishing grounds of different water quality or other reasons (such as adjusting the drift when adjusting the high fishing ground, the weight of the bait and light), often appear hook bait does not bottom of the phenomenon, or even from the bottom of the very far, can not catch fish. This problem is more likely to occur when drifting for ice fishing. So we must pay special attention to this problem, should be in the order of the above said, to another fishing ground, must re-adjust the drift.

Three, de-icing

This is also a phase of ice fishing must pay attention to do a good job. In the temperature, the water temperature is very low fishing, fishing tackle often contact with the water part, such as floating, rod tip, water line, etc., a water will be frozen, and even a long string of ice beads, these will increase the fishing group of the falling force in the balance of the fishing group in the state of balance, the loss of its sensitivity. In particular, the float, the tip of the ice beads on the drift, although not big, but it's a very large drop force, not only will greatly reduce the sensitivity of the float, but also increase the fish bite after the pulling of the float used by the force, so that the biting fish to send the drift to send the immobilized, the lower tugging the drift tugging, and had to give up the bait to go.

Therefore, it is very important to clean up the ice on the tip and tail of the drift at any time. It's important to clean up, so that you can get rid of the ice. In addition, the wind line, the rod tip of the ice beads, ice ballast, but also to clean up in time. If not, it is put into the hole in the water (especially the part of the wind line close to the float), it will pull the float down, weakening the sensitivity of the float.

Along with removing the ice that has formed on the float, windline and rod tip, this is a good job that does not require much skill, as long as the angler overcomes his laziness and fear of trouble in his thinking and behavior.

Fourth, constantly adjust the drift

This is the ice fishing should be most because we pay attention to one thing. As you know, any object will ? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. , ice fishing fishing group is no exception. Especially in the ice water immersed in the water line (including floating below the main line and the brain line), will be with the ice fishing, with the temperature of the water temperature continues to fall, gradually shorten its length, that is to say, the water line will automatically shorten. It can pull the float down and make it lose its sensitivity, but also lift the hook bait away from the bottom of the water, so that the fish moving under the water can't eat the bait, forming a situation in which there are fish that can't be caught.

Therefore, the fishing group (mainly the water line) automatically ? constantly shorten? This problem should cause us to pay great attention. I do not know whether anglers in the ice fishing process has encountered this phenomenon has not, anyway, I often encounter, especially in the afternoon ice fishing. The only way to solve this problem is to keep adjusting the float to keep it at the level of 1 to 1.5 meters above the water surface.