Use your tip-ups as the main weapon in your "run and gun" arsenal. Most people think of tip-ups like it's a Ronco rotisserie oven where they set it and forget it. They are missing out on a huge advantage they can give you.
I use them to search for fish and eliminate unproductive water by constantly moving them.
In Wisconsin we can use up to three lines (actually baits but let's not break down the technicalities of how that is interpreted...anyway). When searching for perch, crappies, and even bluegills I'll bring out a bunch of tip-ups all set up differently. Different jigs, jig colors, hook orientation, etc. I put my first tip-up in, then the 2nd a considerable distance away. Then the third another good distance away from the 2nd. If the 1st one I put in isn't tripped by the time I'm done putting in the third it gets moved. Then if the 2nd one isn't up by the time I've moved that first one, it gets moved. Rinse and repeat over and over until flags start flying. At that point I'll focus on where the flags are going up, tighten up the distance between the tip-ups, and set up camp removing one of them and working the area with a jig pole.
This approach does require a lot of work but you are essentially hole hopping with three lines instead of one which means you are covering a lot more water. Getting three lines in the water is much more efficient than just one. By having different presentations already rigged up on different tip-ups you can pin down productive patterns faster. If the fish are moving in schools (like perch) you can determine where the school is headed to next and get ahead of it with a jig pole.
