Panfish on tip ups -- please tell me your set ups...

[Slipperys]

I have been using small trebles with small minnows at 25 and 35 foot depths(right off the bottom).  I have an attractor set up 12" above the hook(spinner blade and holographic beads)-- but I cannot catch a panfish to save my life... I am catching tiny pike--but looking for panfish.  Please tell me how you catch panfish on tip ups.  Thanks MUCH!!

[mroy44]

I think your better off using a rod with a little jig

[snowman3406]

You may want to make yourself a set of tip downs if you are after pannies.  There is info all over this site on how to make yourself a set of them.

[Old Man Winter]

You may want to make yourself a set of tip downs if you are after pannies.  There is info all over this site on how to make yourself a set of them.

X's 2. Tip downs are way better for panfish. Tipups are a waste of time IMO.

[WARRIOR_ON_ICE]

I catch more perch and crappie with my tipups than I do jigging on most trips. The key is the tipup must have a super-sensitive flag trip, a totally free-spinning spool, and the lightest possible leader line, splitshot and hook for the small minnow you are using.

I get very few hit and drops even from notoriously spooky crappie, with my 6# mono leaders, size 10 trebles, and tiny split shots barely big enough to keep a 1-2" minnow down. Other guys that I fish with that have anything beyond what I mentioned, even a spinner blade, get mostly hit and drops.

[mroy44]

 Ive seen the clam artic warriors and the ones that HT makes were you put your pole in, those look like they would work.

[Slipperys]

I catch more perch and crappie with my tipups than I do jigging on most trips. The key is the tipup must have a super-sensitive flag trip, a totally free-spinning spool, and the lightest possible leader line, splitshot and hook for the small minnow you are using.

I get very few hit and drops even from notoriously spooky crappie, with my 6# mono leaders, size 10 trebles, and tiny split shots barely big enough to keep a 1-2" minnow down. Other guys that I fish with that have anything beyond what I mentioned, even a spinner blade, get mostly hit and drops.

Thanks for the info... what kind of tip ups do you use?  Do you ever put jigs with waxies on instead of a small minnow?

[staggerin]

I use a number/8 octapus hook on tip downs with a jumbo fathead or a bass minnow. If your catching the pike, my guess is the pike are scaring your panfish away.

[mdrobny]

I use a number/8 octapus hook on tip downs with a jumbo fathead or a bass minnow. If your catching the pike, my guess is the pike are scaring your panfish away.

if the bite just stops,you can bet a predator showed up!

[Nam 69]

if the bite just stops,you can bet a predator showed up!

 I hear that, happens tp us a lot

[fish to live]

if your good you will use tip ups when a flag goes up i fish its partner hole and whammy always a good locator for perch big perch