Ice Fishing Perch in Washington State

[@yakhusker5914]

I remember ice crackling like that when my dad and I were fishing for trout many years ago. I hightailed it to the truck and didn’t return lol. My dad, being the wise and experienced one, fished until he caught his limit. Since then, I’ve learned the ways of growing ice. Being more of a geologist now and understanding stress fractures, I shake my head at my younger self response. Thanks for the memory retrieval. Tight lines and Happy New Year!!

[@kirkjohnson9353]

You guys win the award for the most trout caught in a perch fishing video. LOL I myself love perch too. Very tasty.

[@spiltmilt]

You got that right!

[@twopassionsfishing386]

Great video friend

[@leonardball5067]

Fun fishing.

[@AndyTheCornbread]

When perch are finicky like that, which is more often than not the case here in MT where I fish, I use a glow Swedish pimple and I flash the glow strip with a digital camera flash so it glows hot. We use eyeballs as bait after we catch the first one because the eyes reflect the glow of the pimple and we don't move it at all we just set it right off the bottom laid sideways on a bucket so we can watch the strike indicator and not move it even a whisker until we set the hook. That is the best way I have found to catch perch when they are being super picky and slow.

[@spiltmilt]

Good advice!

[@MrSrtman18]

Maybe do a sonar vid, if you can. Be fun to check it out. Great vids always. Nice perch.

[@nickjaques2392]

Merry Christmas from Quesnel BC Canada

[@nickjaques2392]

We have a bit more ice maybe 7” @2000’ so far but no perch and bigger trout.

[@spiltmilt]

Merry Christmas! I hope you find some big fish through the ice this winter

[@russelrogers2540]

Decent sized perch. What were the parasites' on those trout? Remember the first time I tried ice fishing. Every time the ice would groan I was looking at the shore and wondering how long it would take me to get there.

[@spiltmilt]

The parasites are a species of copepod I believe.

[@russelrogers2540]

@@jrwatkins3872 Never seen them on any fresh water fish. Always something new.

[@WyomingOutofDoors]

Good video i Subscribed

[@riverfishy]

You think the hoochie rig for Kokanee will work for rainbow trout?

[@spiltmilt]

Yes should work

[@zachmostad1324]

Is there good ice on Curlew right now?

[@spiltmilt]

yes

[@wubbalubbadubx2]

Haha it's funny to hear this reactions it would be the opposite in the Northeast. Perch are pests compared to trout with most of us (Not everyone would agree here)

[@camchatfield2776]

That still looked like a fun Christmas day even though your perch haul was much lighter than previous years! I'm glad to know there is safe ice out there though, I'll be up there next week for a couple days. Do you know if the north end of the lake had safe ice? Thanks

[@spiltmilt]

I'm not certain about ice conditions on the north end of the lake.

[@MrSrtman18]

Wait now, helix 7? I just bought a helix 5 because of you, and lemme tell ya. I been crushing the fish this ice season. Havent been skunked yet, and i been I been out on ice 15 times.

[@spiltmilt]

I still have my 5! The 7" is for the wife.

[@MrSrtman18]

Spilt Milt Productions I love my 5. Still learning kinda, learning what im seeing. I watched all your set up vids and it helped a lot. More time I’ll get better. Never had a sonar rig like this. Thanks

[@vadim4790]

how Is the lake called I just subscribed

[@rp123]

Where is it?

[@randallpinkfloyd7225]

There's kids in Africa who would be thrilled to catch those trout........🤣

[@spiltmilt]

LMAO 🤣😆

[@TwoStageTrigger]

Cracking like that means the ice is getting thicker.

[@reapergrim76]

Ha! Funny you got mad at the trout!

[@spiltmilt]

Bah humbug! 😂🤣

[@dustinrhodes1091]

What lake is this?

[@spiltmilt]

Curlew Lake

[@collinmc90]

lol barking dogs... always. I swear unless I go hiking into a mountain lake that is completely empty it's like you can never get away from that. I swear every single person in the world seems to have a dog these days.

[@Skank_Hunt42]

Trout can get very annoying sometimes

[@rushintofishin81]

Yeah, I was at this lake this weekend and I was just trying to catch perch not trout 😂