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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Tipups => Topic started by: St. Lawrence River Guy on Jan 03, 2018, 10:08 AM

Title: Gulp or other plastics on tip-ups?
Post by: St. Lawrence River Guy on Jan 03, 2018, 10:08 AM

I saw a couple of brief threads on this idea in the past but I thought I'd ask again.

This past fall we caught some large, late season pike on a virtually stopped 4" gulp alive in smelt color.  We were fishing in clear, calm water (about 20ft) and you could see the pike studying the bait for 10-20 seconds before striking. 

This reminded me of many of the ice fishing videos I've seen of how pike cautiously approach minnows and since I already have the bait it's no big deal to put a few on tip ups.