Ice Fishing Flies

[diertae]

Do you tip these flies with something or fish them bare?

Don

We caught fish on them with waxies, maggots, and worm.

[RobG]

I had one take on a bare scud when I was using it as a dropper below a baited jig, but it is hard not to tip them with a maggot. Bait can mess up the balance of the fly. I've had one person tell me that fish take the fly a lot better if horizontal.

[Tinker]

Scuds as dropper and wooly buggers on jig heads, I rarely put any bait on them.  I also think I catch as many fish without bait as I do with, of course that depends on the lure.  Something like a swedish pimple or tear drop almost always gets baited where as the flys and even twister tails or fuzzy grubs I rarely bait.  This all being for trout.

[RobG]

Interestingly enough, I caught a couple of suckers the other day on a black woolly bugger jig with no bait.

[chucknduck]

I've caught tons of trout with a seal bigger tied on a jig hook. Gonna try some studs tomorrow.