Ice fishing for Crappies

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Crappies In The Crosshairs By Jim Edlund Aaron Wiebe, 25-year-old host of the social media sensation, Uncut Angling, is a big crappie glutton who’s developed a system for putting the crush on crappies anywhere throughout the Ice Belt. “First thing, you’ve gotta put big crappies—not button bucks—in the crosshairs,” says Wiebe. For Wiebe, that means pouring over maps to find less-pressured bodies of water. “Spend an extra hour driving to get on a new lake…fishing off-the-radar spots pays off,” says Wiebe. Wiebe glasses potential waters for two key things: large, deep basins and the most predominant shallower water close to these basins. “Let’s say there’s a lot of 14 feet water surrounding a 30-foot basin. That’s a tip-off to look for crappie schools 14 feet down over main basin depths.” “I never think of fish being X feet off the bottom. For me it’s X feet down.” Based on this homework, Wiebe typically doesn’t need to wonder where the wild things are. Then he and a partner drill holes in expansive grids with a StrikeMaster® Honda™ 4-stroke. “The auger’s so light it feels like an extension of my arm. I should have it surgically implanted,” Wiebe quips. Once holes are […]