Experiment with Your Panfish Baits This Winter

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Published: 03 January 2013

Provided by PRADCO

By Nathan Shore

When ice fishing pressure peaks, anglers should tweak presentations to fool panfish.The depth finder reveals a pair of big crappies under the hole. Anxious to get the bait back down there, you let the spoon fall right to them…and they disappear.

It happens all the time. Dropping jigs and spoons too fast can spook bluegills, crappies, perch and other panfish. Using aggressive colors and tactics can spook ‘em, too. We sometimes forget we’re sitting only a few feet over their heads, giving panfish every excuse to be skittish. Standing up, sitting down, scraping buckets on the ice, hovering over the hole, then allowing light to stream down there in a big beam – it’s amazing we catch any at all.

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5-Year Old Shoots Two Deer with a Muzzleloader

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Published: 31 December 2012

By Louie Stout

Cale MyersCale Myers is the youngest hunter you’ll ever meet.

The Edwardsburg, Mich. tyke tips the bathroom scales at 48 pounds - on a good day - and is still too young to start the first grade.

Yet he killed two deer on back-to-back days.

With a muzzleloader.

I know what you’re thinking. His dad probably held the gun for him and stood behind the young boy when he pulled the trigger, bracing him from the recoil, right?

Nope. Dad was running a video camera next to him. Pops handed him the gun, the boy placed the barrel between shooting sticks, put a bead on the deer and pulled the trigger.

By himself.

Both times.

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