Aerator question

Do fish change there location and or depth when the aerator is turned on the lake. Are they closer to the aerator because it has more oxygen?

on a lake I fish a lot late ice the crappies and gills suspend around the aerator pretty thick, the lake is actually pretty good sized so it surprised me how many fish show up there, they put flags out around it so we’d poke around the edges of the roped off area but one day it was snowing pretty bad and nobody else was around so I ducked under and started drilling and that was pretty impressive, not much on bottom but tons of fish about halfway down in 10-14 FOW

I think the ropes are more of a suggestion than a law so don’t condemn me on that one

Thanks. I’ll have to go do some drilling and see

Fish near the aerator. They are there because the lake is susceptible to winter kill because of low oxygen, but those aerators won’t oxygenate the whole lake. The further from aerator the lower the oxygen.

Just be careful, ice will be thin around it!

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Just be careful, ice will be thin around it!

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So true. You don’t have to be right on the edge of the open water. The oxygenated water will make it a good distance from the open area under the ice.