I have been experimenting with a spring, the titanium one from Frabill. I am having some problem controlling my presentation with that. I cannot get a crisp enough jigging action to suit me. Any suggestions? Is is possible that I am using to soft a rod with my spring? I am having some difficulty getting a good solid stop for my pauses.

BTW the pike we took that I wrote about earlier, one of them hit pretty hard, but the other was as soft a pickup as any crappie. We normally get that kind of soft take from such bass as show up, too. The most positive takes we have gotten so far this winter have been a few perch and a couple of sunnies who really hammered the jig, but turned out to be dinks when we got them to the hole.

We have been finding fish in the holes, but not being able to convince them to take or finish off a chase, when we can even get one. Perhaps that is from our very light snow cover. They are almost universally acting really nervous. Next week we will be out trying again and several times if at all possible.