Slammin the JUMBO PERCH use a Flasher

[jigger]

hey SAGE,

heres a article i found about useing a flasher to slam

those jumbo perch from walleyecentral.com


Calling All PERCH


Successful anglers find fish with the help of electronics. Vexilar’s FL-8 or FL-18 are both excellent tools for locating perch. When searching for perch on deep mud basins, the zoom mode and bottom separation features on the FL-18 are invaluable. Your electronics are your eyes underwater.

On big water, finding perch often starts with a lure that will attract and draw fish in from a distance. Working a small Spoon like a Frostee Spoon or Lindy Rattler aggressively will let you know if there are any fish in the vicinity. Some fish in the school might indeed be aggressive and an angler can do quite well aggressively working one lure. A small Spoon tipped with either; maggots, wax worms or a minnow head is a time honored presentation that works well for aggressive perch. So often however with temperamental fish, an aggressive presentation might indeed find fish and pull wandering fish into the cone angle of your Vexilar but something subtler is needed to trigger a bite. Call fish over to you with a flashy presentation like a Spoon than make the switch to something smaller or subtler when needed. Again, your electronics let you know when fish are found and how they are responding to your presentation.

[Metal Angler]

Nice post gotta say that guy knows his perch!

[Sage]

Jigger you have to check out frambills new icerods man they are wicked!

[White Shark]

Hey Metal,

It's been a while. I've been staying busy fishing quite a bit. I got tons of photos to post when I get a chance. I notice some where you were asking about flashers. I use a vexlar. I think it's a fl-18. Great piece of equipment. They're pretty easy to use, exspecially if some one can get you started. You actually can see a fish come rightr to your bait and get ready for the bite. Vexlar is great but there are other companies out there. Larance has a couple of nice machines that have gps buit into them so you can mark your spots. I guess all range from $350. - $600.. So be prepared. Here's a clip from the Ice teams web page:

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Ice Team Annual 2006 Ice Team Annual



Becoming a ¡®Flasher Person¡¯
Somewhere along the line, many ice anglers new to Vexilars have come to believe that their use is complicated.

Perhaps that¡¯s natural, given that you do have to interpret blips on a flasher display. But it¡¯s easy, and the Vexilar flasher is an indispensable part of the Ice Team system. Keeping with the promise of providing the best instruction is a wonderful new DVD that teaches, among other things, how to use a Vexilar flasher.

¡°There¡¯s a reason Dave Genz is a flasher guy,¡± says Vexilar¡¯s Tom Zenanko. ¡°No matter how cold the weather gets, a Vexilar works every time. You have to keep the battery charged (most problems reported by users, believe it or not, are solved after they charge the battery), but the reliability is legendary.¡±

The new DVD comes free with all ¡®packs,¡¯ including Ultra Pack, Pro Pack and Genz Pack. Total length is almost 4 hours, including all owners¡¯ manuals in PDF form, ice fishing and safety tips from Genz, all the info you need to use a Vexilar flasher like a whiz, and much more¡ªincluding tips from Al Lindner and other open-water pros. ¡ñ

Later,
BB

[Metal Angler]

Well hello there BB welcome back to the site, and yes i agree with your vexilar knowledge i have been reading about them quite abit. however not to downplay the units or anything but if you know your lakes i feel you dont really need one It sure is a nice lil peice of equipment a lil pricey though for the average iceangler i think. But who knows maybe a few icefishing companys or sonar companys will make a production line of affordable ice units strictly for ice fishing.
Hopefully "If they did they would make millions!"

I think you meant the company Lowerance in the post above?

Ya they were the first company to bring out the sonar units called the "Lil green box" It was the first unit made in the late 50s for icefishing and fishing in general.
The real purpose of the units was a millitary purpose Detecting Submarines

Great post guys

[Sage]

Holy crap, thats expensive but thanks for the advise on the flashers awsome post. So that link you sent me metal was the first flasher unit made? How cool i should have bought it dang
Would have been a collectors item!!! Oh well the flasher that got away i guess

Hey bb good to see ya on the site cant wait to see your Ice tournament pics cool cool

[White Shark]

;D Glad to be back. As far as the ice pictures I hope mother nature helps out. So far no ice!! I will not be fishing any tourneys till mid Jan. if everything goes well. If we ever get any local ice I'll get to practice a little. I don't know how well I'll do in the ice picture tourney because I usually only fish for perch, crappies & bluegill/sunnies. Hopefully I'll get lucky and come up with a larger size critter. Metal as far as the vexlars go you're right about knowing your lake, but my problem is I've only been ice fishing for about a year and a half. Once three years ago, nine times two years ago including the North American Championship and zero times last year. And the tourneys I fish are in several states on different lakes. Plus when you have a time frame to deal with you have to know if there's fish around or not. Plus you can get ready for the hit and usually aren't caught napping. Not that I hook every fish that bites.

[jigger]

yep time is a factor when tournament fishin seconds could make or break ya good point White shark