I DON’T LIKE FISHING WITHOUT MY “VEXY” VLADYKA SAID, BUT DURING MIDWINTER IT’S IMPERATIVE.

in he said I see the flasher lines nose up and then engulf my bait. instead of being caught off guard and not reacting quick enough, I can set the hook just as I see the strike on the screen Vladyka had used sonar when he caught his pair of perch, and it certainly was how I caught my 3. if I hadn’t been using it the soft nips and the blowing snow might have felt like nothing more than a shiver in my hand the perch would have drifted away without another hit. Its more curiosity than hunger at this time and the only way fish can satisfy their curiosity is by biting the bait Vladyka said. flashers also helped you lure fish in close and tweak their curiosity this is important in the midwinter because panfish are usually not in tight schools they are often sparse and scattered when one appears on a flasher Vladyka does everything, he can do to catch it. he’ll work a hole thoroughly leaving only when he thinks the fish have moved away. that means going through a repertoire of jigging actions from stationary to slow, to moderately aggressive, moderately aggressive is how he describes the best jiggy action for tough midwinter conditions the jigging motion is twitching lift and drop the twitching more of a palsy like shaking of the rod. he accomplishes this by placing his index finger on top of the