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AJ, if you plan to get serious with laker fishing I would highly recommend you consider purchasing a flasher if you have not already. Tip-ups are fun but jigging puts the numbers on the ice! Moving frequently also contributes to success. These fish are predators and nomadic in their travels in search for a meal. As Eagle mentioned, they quite often suspend and it has been my experience that those are the more aggressive fish. While jigging without a flasher has and continues to produce, without one it's easy to miss a lot of the suspended fish. My suggestion is to set your tip-ups for Salmon and jig for lakers. Besides, who wants to reel up 120 feet of line off the bottom on 5 tip-ups when you're fingers are freezing and the wind is howling? Shoot me a PM and I'll get into greater detail as to jigging technique for Lakers and rigging for LLS.Good Luck!Mike
AJ, if you plan to get serious with laker fishing I would highly recommend you consider purchasing a flasher if you have not already. I got a fl8vex. only goes to 120feet. thanks!Mike
x3No question the flasher is the way to go. tipups are a nightmare in deep water and it is much more fun with a flasher i wouldnt fish for lakers if it wasnt for my vex.
Of course but you can't knock the tip ups.
whoooaa slow down there sinkergirl. You had a nice weekend and congrats. you still have a bit to learn. Don't get cocky on us. Just when you think you have it figured out things change. Thats fishing. Try fishing lakers with 20 mph winds at 15 degrees. Your hands will be cold. A flasher is a big help. I would rig a couple for salmon and 2 or 3 tipups for lakers depending on the weather.
Wow you guys are brutal. Don't let 'em get you down Sinkergurl. I've also been on a lake with tip ups, and out fished the guys jigging. Sometimes they just don't want anything except live bait. Even took one of their holes(the jiggers) and set a tip up in it and caught fish. I hate to limit myself to one way of fishing. Put the tip ups in and then start drilling holes to jig. I also believe that jigging near your tip ups helps to attract fish into the area, and you have double the chance at a fish. You can cover a pretty large area and still be in legal limits for tip up fishing. So if NYS allows you 5 tip ups and two hand lines. why not use them to your advantage? Cold fingers and hands and toes and what ever else that can get cold is a by product of "ice" fishing.
Anybody ever want to make a friendly wager i'll fish with my jigging rod and flasher and you can have 5 tipups ............ i'll match whatever you want to wager