Bullhead icefishing

[henryboy32]

Just curious. Does anyone ever hear of bullhead being taken through the ice? I know the action doesn't really pick up on lakes until late May but they have to feed too during the winter.

[henryboy32]

Does anyone have any information?

[Deadly Tedly]

I have never targeted Bullhead in the winter but one of our party pulled one up through the ice on Fletchers this past weekend. He ended up jigging a waxworm (vigorously) right in front of him in 4 feet of water and he took it in deep. It was about 14-15 inches in size!

[ERGOMAN]

We have caught 20-30 bullheads at night crappie fishing on the Quincy chain. One after another, fun to fight to the ice but a pain to get the hook out of in the cold

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ETHICS!

[swoop]

Funniest thing happened to me this weekend. I had always thought that bullheads went into some type of dormant stage in the winter, not really feeding and staying pretty much to the deep bottom holes. I have always heard of people catching them and kind of shrugged it off with the attitude of "I'll have to see it to believe it!". Well this weekend I was fishing out on white lake. I had a tip-up set up with a large bass minnow in hopes for some walleye action. Well with the day going really slow we were enthusiastic over the flag that had gone up. We raced to get the flag, the spool wasn't spinning and felt dead. We realed it in to check the minnow when to our astonishment there was a 9" bullhead on the hook. Well needlesss to say I saw it for myself and now know you CAN catch bullhead through the ice.