tip up placement

[pikeman80]

        How far apart should you place your tip up? I have have been going about 50 feet. What do you guys think?

[stephensonswille]

way to close for me. i place my 100 yards apart or better. I was always tought the purpose of tip ups is to spread out across more ground and not crowd a particular area. it's always paid off for me. today for example i had 1 tip up about 200 yrds to the left of my spear shack and another about the same distance to the right of my shack speared saw a hammer handel go thru the hole let em go and peeked outside had a flag on the one to the right pulled em up didn't even put a tape on em looked back and had another flag to the left and got him too. the 1st one was 28.5" and the 2nd 30.5"

[gfisher95]

i think you should put them 15ft. apart starting at a depth of 10ft.

[DasRottweiler]

All depends what your fishing for ,but I`ll make the asumption it`s Pike your after, since this is the Pike forum!
If you are searching for spots and are new to a lake -spread out, and that is all relative to lake size and your mobility. On foot or quad? Once you catch a fish at a certain depth , move several closer to it, assuming you can use multiple traps in your state. The idea is to spread out ,fishing different weededges and drops till you find an area and depth that seem to work and then gradually move your farthest traps in your set closer to the " Hot" zone . I may start out on a smaller lake (less than 600acres) by placing traps along a weedline/edge every 100-150 feet(40-50 steps give or take) then catch a few/ have a few drag drops -tipped flags etc, and I start moving the farthest "deadest" traps towards the " hot" zone. Distance between traps decreases until it is a little as 40-50feet. By the end of a day or perhaps a few days , I have eliminated alot of water and have hopefully found at least one good area if not two.

[TimmyWill]

I like to set mine between 20 and 40 feet away, with a ziz zag pattern

[CJiceaddict]

For me it depends how many tackles I am allowed. If we are on Champlain and have three others with me, too far apart and I would spend all my time setting up and taking down (15 traps a person) But if it is just me or fishing NH (6 per person) I'm more apt to spread them out and move them from time to time

[yog]

75 paces for me

[JCaughtem]

DEPENDS ON WERE YOU ARE FISHIN.

[keepah seekah]

I like to set mine between 20 and 40 feet away, with a ziz zag pattern

i set mine about 50 yards apart with the zig zag pattern

[pikeking]

DEPENDS ON WERE YOU ARE FISHIN.

You are mean!!! help them out...

[deadsmelthead]

I like to fish gravel bars,weed beds, points or islands and try to visualize how the fish would travel through the area and getting to know the lake your on is a big plus. I really couldn't tell someone just go out and set your tip ups in a certain pattern and your gonna catch fish. If there was a magic pattern or spacing of tip ups that attracted Pike I have yet to see it. Fishing in and around structure is far more important than what pattern your tip ups are set or how many yards or feet are between them.

My 2 cents anyway

[gaudetskie]

        How far apart should you place your tip up? I have have been going about 50 feet. What do you guys think?

How many do you get to use? Here in WI we get three per man. If I'm by myself I usually use a "shallow" triangle, or zig-zag pattern. About 80 paces between 2, with 1 at 40 paces out, and about 30-40 paces left, or right.

[JDN]

 Find the bait and you will find the fish!!!Cover as much area possible and then key in on areas when flags pop.Large flats,islands,humps and points are good places to start.It also depends on what month during winter.An average depth I start with can be between 5 and 18 feet.Dec & Jan start shallow Feb deeper Mar shallow again.
 It depends on what bait fish you have if its smelt might be deeper.I have caught them on 15' humps surrounded by 90' of water.
GOOD LUCK!!!!

[FISHFORPIKE]

Using 5 tip-ups - I drill approximately 50 holes at 40 - 50 ft. spacing, space the tip-ups out; and then when I catch a fish, I move one or two of the others closer to the fish.  Or I just get up and move after a period of inactivity and start over.

[pikeking]

I like to drill my holes in a 100 yard circle. Set up in the middle. I nothing is hitting, make the circle bigger or start another one. I like to set up on the sides of the island or close to the drop offs.

[Trooper Bri]

We get 6 lines here in CT.

If I'm drilling by hand (read: fishing by myself), I'll drill a line through the area I'm fishing initially, and work out from there. Otherwise, I've learned to drill a pile of holes in a rough grid over the area I want to work, and move flags around afterward. Make all your noise at once and then go fishing. This is regardless of species though.

The line of spacing tends to vary from 20-25ft between holes to 70 or 80ft (we don't have many big lakes in CT, so 400+ ft usually means exploration spacing in new places). My favorite pike lake is polluted with stumps. I don't dare set flags out too far from camp that often. It almost guarantees that the fish gets a run and snags in them.

As previously stated, work the areas where you get flags, find your structure, find your depth.

[stoutbait]

I usually have about 50 feet between them in a line.

[yog]

i like to start on one end of the lake place tip-ups every 25 yds, till i get to other end. 

[FISHFORPIKE]

I know a guy (not me) that sets them in "l-i-n-e".  Uses a string to be sure the line is straight.  He's a good guy - just a bit "something"; like all of us ice-fishers. 

[ferrari175]

As others have said it all depends ill set em close if I know a spot or spred them out up to 100 yards.  Sometimes we will literally blanket an area and you would be surprised at how well just a few will do there

[kingfisher]

in alberta they have to be with in a 100 meters