by aka anglinarcher » Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:45 pm
I don't know about Carp, but I have caught Channel Cats through the ice.
About 15 years ago I discovered that my fish finder was showing some nice large schools (fish unknown at the time) suspended in the water, under the ice, but they would hit nothing. Later while using a dead minnow to fish for Walleye, I jigged in the middle of the school. Nothing worked so I got crazy and jigged like a wild man. Of course, that did not work either, so I set the rod down and stated to look at my tackle box.
I almost lost that rod when the Cat hammered the minnow. It seemed that you needed to "wake" the fish up with wild jigging motions, then let it set in front of them. That was the ticket. I saw them do the same thing on a fishing show a few years ago.
I think my bucket list has a hole in the bottom!