Norolan Winter Light Ice Jig For Arctic Char

The sun shines, the cold pinches your cheeks and the line snaps. A few seconds later, a magnificent perch bounces on the ice. This scenario attracts countless ice fishing enthusiasts to the ice every winter.

The glittery surface imitates the fish's scales and the transparent lens brings out the color of the pole as the light from the surface filters down through it. The Winter Light (including the Morse code) is 100% handmade in Mikkeli, Finland, in beautiful landscapes of perch-rich lakes.

Pimping perch with Winter Light
One or more fly larvae are traditionally used as bait on the moray eel. Dragonfly larvae are also excellent baits as they have a strong scent and are the perch's food in the wild.

We also recommend trying Norolan's artificial fly larvae, which have an odorant that attracts fish. For larger perch, it works best to use 2-3 artificial larvae and 1-2 real fly larvae as bait. This way, there are always larvae on the hook and the real larvae provide some extra spice and smell.

There are many different techniques for fishing with a vertical jig. Bumping the bottom, shaking the jig and lifting or bending are perhaps the most popular movements, but sometimes it can be good to keep the jig still.

The following pimple technique has been proven to work, a hot tip for beginners in pimple fishing:

• Drop the pimple to the bottom and dust it off 2-5 times.
• Slowly lift the spear upwards while shaking the rod now and then.
• When the pier has been lifted about half a meter from the bottom, flick the rod so that the pier moves and then let it sink to the bottom and start again.
• If nothing happens, it is advisable to find a new hole fairly quickly. In five minutes you can usually tell if there are fish near the hole