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I often fish for perch in the winter in lakes that contain bluegill
also. I rarely catch one. I grew up in Michigan where it is fairly
easy to catch a lot of bluegills through the ice in the middle of
winter. Why they are so hard to catch here in the winter I don't know.
If anyone out there has advice on how to catch them here in winter I
would love to read it here.

I'm not sure why, but I also grew up in Michigan, and see the same thing. I've
also caught 'gill in WI and IL through the ice. From what I can remember from
those trips (it's been several years now), we used wax worms exclusively,
floated just off the bottom, sometimes with a jig (the color had to vary, as
the same jig never worked two days in a row, or on more than one lake). For
line, I used 4# test, with a light balsa bobber so I could watch for the hit
(it tends to be slow, and light, so you want to keep a good eye on the line,
and the light line will be more responsive to the hit). Jig the line every so
often, and just wait. We never caught massive amounts of fish this way, but we
would catch them.

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