GO-TO Mid Winter Ice Fishing Tips to Catch MORE Walleyes!

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Welcome back to another ice fishing video. Today I am ice fishing for walleyes on Red Lake in Minnesota. I am staying on the ice in a fancy Ice Castle with First City Guide Service. In this video we are dealing with some finicky fish due to a massive weather change. I talk about some tips you can use to catch finicky walleyes during the midwinter time frame. Thanks for watching!
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[@craigwavra3495]

Really enjoy you showing the Live view when you are working the fish!! Good teaching method!!

[@fishman8662]

I love it. Makes me laugh of how many people say it. It's good humor. 😅😅

[@midwestoutdoorconnections9204]

Another awesome vid buddy keeping us entertained and giving us hope for good ice in MN

[@dylanwalker5248]

I love seeing you get as amped up as the rest of us over a low 20s inch fish. A good eye is a good eye 🎉

[@ontheone9559]

I am so glad that I subscribed to you a few years ago! Always great stuff!

[@89shmike]

So good to see the crappies coming back up there.

[@tylermaassen]

Banger video man 🔥

[@toddjensen5689]

Oh, and Mitch is the SH!+. Keep on fellas, ya make a great team.

[@PolarisJD]

Just booked my trip with Chaz at First City Guide Service. Can't wait! Should link up with Chaz on a rental discount code for viewers 😉. Great content as always Tom. Thank you for what you do. You are my favorite fishtuber.

[@lolgotchya]

Dude you’re awesome thanks for the videos!!

[@paulkramer7698]

Another great video!

[@mattress2331]

Being mobile I'm sure is Relative, especially with camera gear and all! You do such a great job, taking us on adventures, Thank you!

[@levitninja]

Gangster walleye channel! Facts

[@CaseyBluestone-kt4xx]

Awesome walleyes, keep up

[@user-cw2lh6mz8t]

Hey Tom, Love your videos and your passion for fishing. I've just begun learning to fish for walleyes and just getting started ice fishing as well. You do great at teaching products and presentation of baits. Could you spend more time and specifically show, like on topo's what types of locations you are fishing and why. Locating fish is my biggest challenge and we only have a short ice season here in southwest Iowa so don't have a lot of time to learn. Especially this year.

[@davidspoonholtz6900]

Another awesome video Tom. Finally get it going down here in south central Iowa

[@brianfeeney9493]

Still NO safe ice 🧊 here in NW Michigan Tommy !!!!! Got boatloads of snow ❄️ from that weekend storm ⛈️ ! Worst possible situation we could have, prior to ANY ice 🧊 formation !!!!!! Dang EL NINO sticking it to us ……………. Thanks for the content and we continue to live vicariously through Your Adventures !!!! BE SAFE 🌟

[@thomasarnold5508]

Glad to see the fish didn't have bloody gills when released ...thank-you

[@anthonywhelchel5155]

Hey Tom LOVE your info and videos. would love to see you come over to Rainy Lake!!!

[@Mortarman-Nowinsky]

Love the grind Tom! Was curious if you could do a “location” break down video on the Walleye Now app of the Bay of Green Bay for the Eastern WI guys that may not fish in MN or ND. Would love to see a big fish or nothing type video from the Bay! Good work!

[@TheEzrider403]

Nice !

[@walleyperch]

Winter just started🙂

[@waynesell3681]

Stretch those legs! Great time on the ice with Tom Boley!

[@scottrouwhorst881]

Nice

[@johneckendorf7021]

Un-thaw your equipment? Wouldn't that be freezing it?

[@fishman8662]

Thats funny, I thought the same thing. A buddy and I always give each other crap about that. lol

[@DROutdoors18]

One of my pet peeves. That and "hot water heater" lol

[@TheLoopy989]

@@fishman8662I think this means you live a charmed life. God for you my dude!

[@visionbdfishing]

nice

[@jamesnichols8893]

well done 👏👏👏. what are your thoughts on underwater cameras? Do the led lights spook fish?

[@user-ct5um7iw5l]

Tom, what boots are you running this year? Trying to figure out a good long-term solution for ice fishing boots.

[@douglasalounsbury407]

Hey Tom love your videos! What is the name of the auger you’re using? Thanks if you have time it looks like a 8” what brand?

[@jasonrosenberger8157]

Been watching tons of your videos new to walleye fishing still haven't quite put it together

[@claudesylvanshine6551]

Goddamnit Cody.

[@basschaser9356]

What’s your mega live setup? Your image is so clear

[@jjmcg9688]

I see that on walleye now you have settings for some things but can you share your mega live settings?

[@marknikolas1356]

Tom, what brand of Mega live ice pole are you using?

[@wesvohnoutka625]

First I want to say I enjoy all your videos Tom. Now, I know the more often a fish story gets told the bigger the fish keeps getting😂, but your little walleye went from 15" to I believe you said 16" and you hadn't even thrown him back yet..😅 I was always told, an inch aint much unless it's on the end of your nose. 😅 I also grew up around people that said unthaw so I get it, but I believe you were thawing out your fishing gear in the warm garage.. Ok, go make another video. Good job!

[@mattbrown8049]

Do you ever measure the fish or just go by guesstimates?

[@hunt_trap_fish]

Soooo.... we finally have ice here in the WI / IL Stateline area. But this is, w/o a doubt, the first ice we've had all season long. So are we in early ice? mid season? What... where... where in the season are... are we?

[@benrmr]

What if we are already booked? A bunch of us are booked for Feb.? Could we still get in for the giveaway?

[@evanmalison4489]

🎣

[@emersonprey3029]

Whats your biggest eye through the ice?

[@pinhx38]

Are you fishing shallow?

[@goodbyemr.anderson5065]

You would think a guy who catches and releases would handle the fish a little better. Great videos though, and tons of good info to help those starting out.

[@ontheone9559]

So do you keep your dead stick 2-3’ off of bottom?

[@FoulMouthFishing666]

Prolly depends on their mood or where youre markin fish in the water column. But generally higher is better than too low because Im sure you prolly know, theyre eyes are on top of their head and theyre constantly looking up.

[@danholtbk7008]

Last January I was fishing on Trout lake by Coleraine and my fishing buddies and I were deadsticking 8-10 inches off bottom. A game warden came by in the afternoon and in our conversation he mentioned that because of the clear water we should be about 2 ft off bottom. At 3:15 in the morning I got up to pee and I remembered what he said. We hadn’t caught anything yet. I raised my minnow to about 2 ft and less than 2 minutes later I caught a 29”er. She’s on the wall.

[@jjmcg9688]

I’ve heard people say that on pressure spots like red that the walleye are shy of the mega live. What do you think? Thinking that’s why you are marking a bunch but they are not engaging.

[@danholtbk7008]

My fishing buddy and I have been using older model Humminbird side scanners (698si and 798si) for crappie and walleye for several years now. We have the transducers rigged up on pvc pipes that we rotate under the ice to locate fish. We have been wondering lately if the sonar is affecting the fish. We do catch quite a few but sometimes it seems they are awfully finicky. ???

[@jjmcg9688]

@@danholtbk7008 I’ve had some people that are more experienced than I have multiple occasions where the only difference is they are using live/livescope and the other is using vexilar and massively out fishing them. The fish come and then hug bottom. Idk.

[@finsfeathersandbone2823]

That makes zero sense it’s not a camera sitting right off bottom. Mega live or live scope the transducers are only at most a foot below the ice. The fish can’t see it like a camera which they can see.

[@danholtbk7008]

@@finsfeathersandbone2823 What’s being questioned is if they can sense the constant sonar and if it affects them. No one knows for sure because fish don’t talk.

[@jjmcg9688]

@@finsfeathersandbone2823 It is the frequency of the sonar think of it like a high pressure system, fish always bite better when pressure is falling or lower than 30.

[@bobistuff]

mid winter but really first ice where im at. weird year.......

[@6415DK]

Anybody know what kind of heater he is running? My big buddy is trash

[@gregdutton8219]

Heat Hog

[@6415DK]

@@gregdutton8219 awesome thanks

[@toddjensen5689]

Tom, talk to me about your auger setup.... I have a 8 inch Nils with a Tecumseh powerhead that I bought about 15 years ago. Still runs like a champ, weighs 23 pounds, and drills holes like Peter North. Back in the day it was the sh!+ for light, run and gun, while drilling a ton of holes quick. But it (and you) got me wondering: Have the lithium drills caught up? Is it significantly lighter? Reliable? Are you packing 3+ 6aH batteries to cover your power needs? Love ya knowledge and content. Totally agree that fish are certain to bite when ya dingin' with your phone or take the first bite of your sandwich.

[@sampowell9061]

The new 8” Eskimo e40 composite augers weigh 13lbs and can drill 100+ holes on one battery, but I have heard that the 40v strikemaster composite auger is the best. The price is definitely there with electric augers though.

[@isaiahspigner9352]

That k drills nice. Ripper blades holds up the best on wind blown sandy ice. That and any hammer drill weighs under 10 lbs cuts fast and hasn't let me down in 3 years so.. worth it if you got a hammer drill otherwise it's the same price either way

[@isaiahspigner9352]

8.5 " k drill

[@wayne-oo]

Not a big fan of red lake ! With the slot limit and being charged $60 a day to pull out a wheelhouse, there are better lakes out there…

[@finsfeathersandbone2823]

If you’ve ever plowed a road 7 miles out on a lake and multiple side roads to accommodate you and your wheel house you would understand why it cost you that price. They beat the shit out of there vehicles and the price of gas plus maintaining the roads is very expensive but obviously you want everything for cheap so it’s not worth talking about it with you because you don’t understand or care to because you feel entitled like kids these days

[@DreadyEDDY710]

Remember the days when you didnt have to spend hundreds to enter a giveaway

[@epicka55]

I think you need to tighten up your drag. You’re pulling drag on a crappie for crying out load.

[@FoulMouthFishing666]

Thats the youtuber special bud lol ive never had as many small fish pull drag as these guys lol. Makes for a better vid i suppose

[@jayjackson4622]

Can always tell a good fisherman, their drag is set to go before the line does. If you pay attention he tightens it when fighting a bigger fish. I will give you maybe he doesn't lose the bigger one if a dealer hook set but who knows.

[@FoulMouthFishing666]

@@jayjackson4622 there's having your drag set right and then theres youtubers lol. Crank the drag for hooksets turn it down a bit after hookset, dont need it turned down to the point that crappie peel out though lol

[@MH-yu5yp]

Heat hog