please be patient with me every winter i take a bunch of kids from church ice fishing the lake we go to is stocked with 10 inch rainbow trout, and yes the kids have a ball catching them, but the lake also has some HUGE pike so i like to put out some tipups for them well in 3 years not a flag has flown and the kids think tipups dont work. so here is my plan im going to remove the heavy pike leaders and hooks from some of them and replace it with 10 foot of mono probly 6 pound test add a small circle hook and bait with salmon eggs if nothing else that should get a flag flying