Got out for the first time today. 37* water, air temp was in the mid to upper 30's and a north wind from 15-20. About half the lake is still locked up with a 3-4" layer slush so we were only able to fish about a 100 acre section.

I focused on an old river channel that is about 20' wide and 12' deep in the middle of a 7' flat. While fishing for about two hours I "hooked up" with 8 fish. Two largies around 2 pounds and the rest were yellow perch. All the fish were snagged and had hooks in their back. I switched out all the hooks on my jerks to the KVD Elites and all I can say is dam. I would have figured with the shorter hooks that could never happen. Every fish that I had on I didn't drop either. Didn't mean to snag them and it wasn't like I could see them, they just wouldn't move out of the way of my jerkbait.

I snag a lot of fish with jerkbaits too. I suppose the fish move in to investigate and bam you give them the jerk.

Good ad for those hooks.