tip ups

[bohica1137]

What is the best depth to set your tip up to catch pike around here

[MountainMan]

Not sure where "here" is, but depends on the depth of the water for me. If I'm in less than ten' I like putting it right on the surface, just under the ice.

[Special]

For me I just drop in about a foot or two off the ice. I catch more just right under the ice.  Also if you can use a big minnow.  The bigger the better.  If you can find a bait shop that has big 6" plus all the better. 

[bohica1137]

Well that would be why I wasn't catching any I had them a foot off the bottom oops

[doublehaul]

I prefer to target pike. I am assuming you will be fishing KH? I suspend 6-11 inch suckers under a sturdy tip-up 18 -36 inches off the bottom. The deeper I fish, the higher I suspend the bait. Also--->If I am fishing a defined shelf where depth drops from 7 feet down to 18  I tend to fish the top edge of the slope, in this case I suspend the bait higher so fish in the higher water collumn can see the struggling minnow while still allowing bait to be in the strike zone for deeper cruising gators. Hope this helps. Where are you fishing may I ask?

[bohica1137]

Well I'm not sure where to find pike here in Wyoming when I go after pike I ussually hit box butte in nebrwhen I fish here around home by glendo I go for Tue walleye

[bsrkoacar]

Fish the upper part of the water column with big suckers.

[jopes]

The only water in Wyoming with pike is Keyhole. We stock about 160,000 pike a year (little fingerlings). Tiger musky has been an issue of late. A disease called viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) has become an issue east of the Mississippi and there is a moratorium on bringing fish from east to west b/c of the possibilities of bringing VHS to WY (WY's source of tiger musky was Pennsylvania). Other states are supposedly working on developing brood stocks of their own and hopefully someday WY will be able to get a few again. The last stocking of tiger musky is WY was LAK Reservoir in 2006, Grayrocks in 1991, and Festo in 2004.
Hope this helps

was taken from this thread.  Guess if your targeting pike in any other Wyoming lake your not going to be successful. 

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=210487.0

[Team Lightning]

Where does one get 6 inch to 11 inch suckers to use as bait in Keyhole ??

[jpicks]

We usually get out pike around here in the 15'-ish range.  7 turns of the frabill pro thermal (3' off bottom).

[whipstar03]

i usually put the hook a foot or so above the bottom when fishing with tip ups.