
05 / FRESHWATER / HARD WATER
A jerk through eight inches of ice is still a jerk. Jigging spoons and vertical iron for panfish and walleye when the lake goes solid.
12PICKS

ACME
Six bucks of chrome-plated brass that catches everything with fins. Cast it, jig it, or troll it: the Kastmaster doesn't care about your technique, it just flashes and fish show up.

ACME
Holographic tape on a Kastmaster body. The flash is visible from distance in stained water. Trout, bass, stripers all see it, and they all hate it.

UGLY STIK
32 inches of graphite-and-fiberglass Ugly Stik toughness with a clear tip you can actually see load up on a panfish bite. This is the setup, not a rod repurposed from the garage: an actual ice rod, pre-spooled and ready to drop in a hole.

Z-MAN
Ned rig in a tube. The cheat code for tough days when nothing else moves.

TROUT MAGNET
Twenty crawdad bodies and eight long-shank hooks in a kit that'll outfish live bait on pressured trout streams. The wobble fall is the whole presentation.

REACTION TACKLE
Tungsten is denser than lead, so these teardrops are smaller and faster to the bottom for the same weight, which is the difference between a bite and a shiver. UV glow finish for the eight inches of visibility you get at 7am through a hole.

NORTHLAND
A BB rattling inside a hammered spoon that calls fish through eight inches of ice before they even see it. Walleye and perch guides have run this since before Instagram existed.

TROUT MAGNET
1/64oz. That's not a typo, it's smaller than a grain of rice with a hook welded to it. Pair with the crawdad bodies and you have the smallest legitimate jig system in the catalog, which is exactly the point in a 20-gallon tank.

SEAGUAR
The #1 selling fluorocarbon leader on Amazon for years running. Double-structure construction for knot strength, virtually invisible underwater, and Seaguar invented the category, literally.

SEAGUAR
Fluorocarbon mainline built for the rough stuff. AbrazX brings Seaguar's double-structure construction to a castable mainline: near-invisible underwater, serious abrasion resistance around rocks and timber, and 200 yards to fill a jerkbait spool without blinking.

BERKLEY
Six bucks for 25 yards of 100% fluorocarbon leader material. Tie your braid-to-fluoro knot, fish all day, and still have enough left for next weekend. Budget fluoro that doesn't fish like budget fluoro.

FRABILL
A jerk you don't even have to hold. Set the trigger, drop the bait, and go stand over the next hole. The flag pops when a walleye decides it wants a fight. This is the one piece of gear that's genuinely irreplaceable on hard water.
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