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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Bass => Topic started by: mullen2525 on Dec 28, 2004, 08:18 PM
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how do you guys rig your tip ups for bass most importantly what do you use for leaders
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8- 10 lb flouro will work nicely real strong and the bass dont even know it is there.
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I tie on a ballbearing swivel to my braided line then I use a 17 lb test flourocarbon about 3 ft long and use a circle hook. I also put a split shot sinker around 1 foot above the hook to keep the bait down around 1 foot off the bottom. If your not familiar with circle hooks then what you do is when you get a flag don't yank it to set the hook, circles set themselves just keep steady pressure on the line and pull it in.
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I rigged up something similar to this, put a swivel on my base line and to that attached my three foot leader which is trilene micro ice 8 lb test for a hook, I couldnt find circles gotta go lookin a couple other places for them, I have octopus hooks they look similar to circles, is there a differance
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Six pound fluorocarbon rigged with a quickstrike style setup with a pair of #10 trebles.
Tyler
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Firewire 12# leader about 18" and Gamakatzo's
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Barrel swivel from my main line to 2-3feet of 8 pound extra smooth casting then add on a snelled fish eagle red bass hook- works every time
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20 lb spider mono is what i use
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i use 3-5' mono leader between 6lb or 8lb test
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I just finished rigging all my bass/ pickerel tip ups with 10 lb. fluorocarbon. good luck!...Bob..
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Can't target bass with tipups here in NY, but when I've caught them, its been on a 6 foot leader of 6 lb mono, with a #12 or a #14 treble.
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20 lb spider mono is what i use
??? ??? Spiderwire isn't mono ??? ???
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they make a mono now
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20 pound fireline
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and yes it is a mono if you didnt figure out by the linkhttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_44284_100017001_100000000_100017000_100-17-1 (http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_44284_100017001_100000000_100017000_100-17-1)
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i didnt mean to sound mean
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20 pound fluorocarbon for everything. I have caught perch and pike on my tip ups doing that.
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8 to 10 lb floro #10 treb a split shot about a ft above the hook
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I use 36lb Dacron and slide on a 1/4 oz egg sinker (sliding) then tie on a ball bearing swivel. that sets depth. To the swivel I tie a 3 foot piece of 17-30 floor or mono then use a #6 Gamakatsu treble. The 3 foot determines the radius. I use a 1!8 oz rubbercore about six to twelve above the bait to slow the bait down.
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12lb Floro with a quick strike rig, best bass thru the ice 8.3lbs;
(http://i1033.photobucket.com/albums/a417/stripernut1/IMG_1723.jpg) (http://s1033.photobucket.com/user/stripernut1/media/IMG_1723.jpg.html)
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I use six feet of 30 pound Spider Wire EZ Braid, which is the same diameter as 8 pound mono) and attach it with a barrel swivel to my Dacron.
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How long does the flouro and mono last?
I can't imagine they last longer then wire leaders :P I use wire leaders, and would make the switch to the mono or fluoro if they last.
Are you limited to how hard you can pull the line?
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When I use to use Mono I would change it every year because it would get a memory and coil bad and loose it's strength. The one time I didn't I got into the bass the first time out and every time I got them to the bottom of the hole it broke. A hard lesson learned and one I never forgot. A few years ago a friend of mine told me about the Spider Wire EZ Braid and I've been using that ever since. It doesn't get a memory and keeps it's a lot stronger with small line diameters.
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Not needed, making this to complicated.
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Just a question for those of you who use 6 - 10 lb fluoro. I like the idea of low vis but how often does a pickerel or something like it cut through that thin line?
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Not often at all, but I do need to cut it back sometimes...
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If you let them inhale the bait, it could get cut off. If you hit them as soon as a pike or pickerel bites you will hook them on the gum line and not have nearly as many issues getting cut off.