I was fishing at the end range road 43, I think its a bit too late now. U might be able to walk on next weekend. I use a treble hook with a 4-6 inch smelt under tip ups or under a rod laying on the ice.
Ok, went to gull for sat and sun. ok, so dad is sleeping in the truck and he gets a pike on his tip up and i dont wake him up so i get it. It got off and i have never used his kind of tip up before so i never set it right. So the fish got on and the flag never set. So we are sitting in the tent and all of a sudden, the camera gets attacked. And it woudn't stop moving for like .5 hour. So he pulls it up and the tip up line was
wraped around it and we looked at the tip up and there was no more line on it
all spooled out exept the knowt was still there and the attached line.......we pull in a 14 pound pike
Sat - 3 good sized whites, 1 burb, 3 pike (1 64cm and the other 2 were 14 pounds.)
sun - 2 whites (almost 3 pounds and 3.5 pounds), 4 burbs (56cm, 65, 70, 800)
I have been fishing gull the last few weekends for whites and the odd perch and just started to get the hang for the burbot and found the pike there:D
Good Luck man!!