Your go to Set up

[Michaelo]

I was wondering what your go to setup was? You know the 1st pole you grab every time you go fishing? Like rod, reel, line, and jig?

[Gamedog1]

Probably the new stuff, not my top guns once i figure them out, then I put it on them!

[mcsquinty]

St. Croix ultralight with pfluger medalist fly reel, 2lb micro ice line. Awesome, twist free setup.

[mcsquinty]

Hexi fly, firty girty or nuclear ant are the first jigs to go down

[addicted to ice fishing]

Depends on the water depth.  Often I will start with a slender spoon or little cecil fishing multi species, trying to catch active fish.  If I start catching / missing gills, I will go to a green / chartuese demon.  In deeper water, I wil go to a tungsten jig.  If the bite is real tough, I will use a marmooska.  This year I want to try glow jigs much more as a go to option.

[bpiatt]

if I'm targeting perch I always start off with my 28" light action gsx rod with a pflueger president reel, I run 4lb fireline micro ice with a 3lb flouro leader. I like to start off the smallest size buckshot rattle spoon and a minnow head to find active fish.

Edit: just realized this is in the blue gill section. For gills I run a 24in ultralight with 3lb mono. I like 3mm tungsten jigs with a waxy or spikes.

[jrtbaits]

24" st. croix legend UL and a pfluger president micro spooled with 2lb p-line floro-clear and a size 10 glow caty jig for under 15fow
24" bro series UL and another pfluger president micro spooled with 8lb power pro ice braid and a size 8 ladybug colored mud bug for over 15fow

[CZMark]

For me, it's a Thorne Bros Quiverstick with a Shimano Sedona 500, spooled with 2# Nanofil. At the end of the line is a tiny swivel, a 2-foot leader of 2# florocarbon, and finally a small orange or yellow tungsten jig.

[ryno]

Thorne bros 24" quiver stick with recoils, okuma slv 2/3, asso heavy brown 3#, hand painted marmooska.
 
 

[RapidsJigger24]

Mine is a 26 inch frabill quick tip with a l.l. bean quest fly reel running 3lb trilene and a gold #12 diamond jig.

If fish are finicky I'll use my marmish rod with a #16 diamond jig in fire tiger.

[Swift]

2# fluoro at most, #14 tungsten jig with plastic, but will go lighter and smaller. Small and dark usually will open the closed/curious mouths. Rod/Reel combos are fairly irrelevant on 'Gills, a Schooley, dowel rod or Willow switch will work. Putting something small, presented properly and in their face catches fish, what you have above the ice doesn't matter much to the fish unless you're noisy

[DaveW731]

2# fluoro at most, #14 tungsten jig with plastic, but will go lighter and smaller. Small and dark usually will open the closed/curious mouths. Rod/Reel combos are fairly irrelevant on 'Gills, a Schooley, dowel rod or Willow switch will work. Putting something small, presented properly and in their face catches fish, what you have above the ice doesn't matter much to the fish unless you're noisy

I basically agree, except that it is simply more fun to fish if you really like your equipment.  My go-to is a 40" pole I made myself from the top end of a 5-weight fenwick graphite flyrod blank, 2# high-vis line (usually with 2' of 2# flouro leader) and a 12 or 14 size hot pink rocker-style teardrop, tipped with a couple maggots.

[panfishman13]

Klondike 27" light action rod; Shimano 500 spinning reel; 5.7 lb test HT ice black line, and usually a frostee jigging spoon or a northland forage minnow with a glow rat finkee on a dropper.

[Buck1985]

24" Jason Mitchell meat stick, 2lb hi vis yellow line and a gold fairy jig

[ICatchLilFishy]

UL rod, st croix spring bobber, 3lb florocarbon, gold fiska, and impulse plastics.

[TeeBugg]

UL rod,Shakespeare Ul reel, vicious 3 lb line, teardrop size 10 or 12 tipped with spikes

[tonstone]

TB Quiverstick with willow leaf crappie jig, and a gander mountian professional reel. Like this>>

[Itinerant]

Thorne Bros. Panfish Sweetheart (28"), Tica Cetus SS 500, 2 lb. Micro Ice and a 3mm Clown pattern tungsten Fiskas jig.