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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Equipment => Topic started by: BlueSnow on Jan 08, 2022, 04:25 PM
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I have never really had much luck with pike or walleye under my tip ups so I decided to try something different this year. I made a couple of quick rigs to try for panfish. I am planning to drop a couple of small jigs a couple feet below- one with plastic and the other with a spike and see if I can entice anything.
Making these was pretty easy, I just grabbed a spool of 20# wire, shaped and twisted. Doesn't' look like much but it was a fairly quick project and something to do on a beautiful day with no local ice. Also made a couple of arms and attached to some heavy mono like a perch rig, just to see how it goes.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3yMLRJtH/Rigs.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/3yMLRJtH)
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SOOOooooo are these like spreader bars? What's your rig for pike and walleye look like?
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Ha - to be honest these ended up being a bit of a disaster, everything became a giant tangle pretty much immediately. I haven't been back to the drawing board, but I think I am going to stick with the crappie type rig with the two arms off of a central line, though that is still a mess...but not as bad. If you have any ideas I'm game to try 'em out.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around why you wouldn't just fish one jig or a high low set up.
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Probably because there wasn't any ice yet and I was thinking about trying something new...
I'm still trying to wrap my head around why you wouldn't just fish one jig or a high low set up.
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thats the way things come about ;)
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Every now and again ya get a hit...just not this time :D
thats the way things come about ;)
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Probably because there wasn't any ice yet and I was thinking about trying something new...
Yes been there many times. I'm getting older so I'm realizing that simpler is better.......But you never know, you may come up with a million dollar idea...