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Questions for you to sound in on:1. Leader -- mono? what?2. Hook -- treble of what size?3. Minnows of what size? Or other bait, and if so, what?
Here's what I do on our local lake to fish crappies on tip-ups. Not wanting to make or buy tip-downs, and since i have a bunch of standard tip-ups from my lake trout chasing days, I use them. Instead of rigging it normally I open it up, pull out the flag wire all the way, take out the line, bait the hook with a minnow, lower it down to the right depth. Once it'e there, tie a loop in the line, slip the loop over the extended flag and lay the tip-up on the ice WITHOUT the reel in the hole, with the flag over the hole. When a crappie sucks in the minnow, the flag bends down towards the hole, and voila, you grab the line and set the hook.Set up your tip-ups just before dark in a half-moon arc, light your lantern, cut a couple jigging holes to keep yourself busy betwen bites, and have at it.....works like a charm.Lester
InIn New York a tip up rigged this way is considered a hand line so you can use only two.Dec talked to me today about this.
Did they talk to you nicely or did they talk with book and pen busy?[/ quote] They talked nicely , no ticket. These boys are like night and day.This one was only interested in how many and how large my catch was because he wanted to fish the next day.So the DEC is out on the ice and a State cop pulls in -he came out to see what we were catching . Just a slow day for them I guess.
In New York a tip up rigged this way is considered a hand line so you can use only two.Dec talked to me today about this.
I wonder if the "Slammer" style rigs are considered hand lines in as well. Anyone know?