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What are your favorite trout lures for tip-ups, if you can’t use live bait. Do you prefer lures that have a little action even without movement like a marabou jig? Also, if do you ever run rigs with multiple hooks?

What are yall using for large fish? I'm in alaska targeting large lake trout and char. I'm used to fishing for pan fish and walleye mainly. But since moving to alaksa I'm targeting trophy lake trout. Any help would be great.

Anybody use or have used either of these 1 man traps? I need somethin small and easy i can use for short trips after work and those days i feel like goin mobile. How was your experience?

I just moved to North Dakota this past summer and am looking for some help. I am south of Valley City about 20 miles and don’t know where to start. There are about 4 lakes within 20 minutes of me and 8 within 45 minutes. I’m also kinda new to ice fishing. Can someone help point me in the right direction of where I should start?

I am heading to MN this winter to try for Bluegill and Perch for the first time - any pro tips for these two species?

What are you using to stop the line when ice fishing without having to re-knot in the freezing cold? I fish swedish style using røyeblinke & light attached to it with small hooks for char and will have to adjust the lenght of the hook line depending on where i fish. I need something that i can just move onto the line.

I love my Beaver Dam Tip-ups but for really cold temps I have some old (ancient really) Frabill Pro-Thermal tip-ups that I use. I saw a deal for the Clam Trophy Thermal Tip-up for $14.99. Anyone tell me if they are just as decent as the Frabill ones? At almost half the price it might be good to grab a few for this ice season. I check on Amazon as well and the best price there was $24.99

Just picked up an Eskimo E40 auger on cyber Monday. Anyone know if the batteries are compatible with the either of the ION power adapter?

Hi! I need to buy new winter boots that I will be wearing ice fishing. What brands do people recommend? Simms? Muck?

I've tried Baffin but they seem to run really small and fit tight on my toes.

Don’t be like me, and forgo the runners on your shack if you want the tub to not end up like Swiss cheese. Shack has only seen two seasons and the bottom is fucked. Luckily a soldering iron and zip ties work as good filler. Now time to add the runners that have sat in my garage for two years…..

Sorry for blowing up the sub this morning but also wanted to hear from anyone who's purchased the Striker 4 with the Ice Bundle. Never have fished with tech prior and wanted to get something at a cheaper rate. While I have Livescope money I'd still rather not break the bank. Let me know if this unit would be sufficient for a first-time finder. I have it ready in my Amazon cart and need someone to talk me off the ledge if need be. Thanks.

Hey guys. Wanted to know what everyone is using for Tip-Up lines this winter. My current setup for the most part will have me jigging for walleye on my my Digger setup while having two tips down. Tip Ups will be mainly setup for Pike. Wondering what kind of line you all recommend. I live in Alberta and will have an opportunity at some near trophy sized pike some days. I usually run 40lb braid throughout the spring to fall, and was thinking anywhere between 30-50lb test ice braid would do the trick. I usually use Spider Wire Durabraid throughout the year but see as though they don't have a coated braid. All I've found before purchasing is Suffix shtuff, and I'm brand partial. Wanted to know if 50lb Suffix Coated Braid would suffice my needs. Also wanted to know what kind of terminal any of you are running for pike targeting tip-ups. Thanks for reading the long-winded inquiry

Picked up some bait and lures on a recent outing to bass pro. I’m a brand new ice angler and this will be my first time ever going out. I’m mostly targeting pan fish, trout, or walleye. What else would you add?

I’m heading out to Red Lake tomorrow. Fishing just the day and heading home.

Hey there everyone, does anyone know a good option for an extension for the Landworks ice auger? Thank you, tight lines, and be safe.

I noticed the gen 2 batteries were on sale for 60% off. Are they going to discontinue the batteries for them?

Hey guys. Getting setup to run livescope this year for the first time.

Already have my unit on an arc lab shuttle, but looking for recommendations for a pole.

I'm looking between arc labs, brew city, or sniper marine pole.

Any thoughts on any of these/any one running them?

Also, if I were to go with arc labs, would I be better off with the regular pro pole, or going with the shorty pole setup?

I also plan on running this pole setup on the boat in summertime.

Thanks for any suggestions.

My last story was funny. Not this one. This is nightmare shit...

Brand new resident in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I decide to try ice fishing on Little Bay De Noc. Gonna get me some of those walleye. Plenty of experience on small lakes in the Lower, "What could go wrong?", says me. Well....

After a 30 min drive I get there and figure out the access is thru a Holiday Inn parking lot. Drive my Jeep Cherokee Sport (2 door with the 4L six, good tires) across the lot, down a little hill, thru some cattails and I'm on the ice. I drive to a small group if ice houses way out there and pitch my pop up. Three holes, two for fishing and one in the center for my finder. Set up two tip ups outside and around 2pm get to jigging in my tent. Start catching walleye right away and I'm so excited my nipples are poking holes in my shirt. Non stop action but many are below size so they are released. I keep at it because dammit I'm going to get my limit. Next time I step out of the tent it's dark and snowing and blowing like hell and all of the other vehicles are gone. I gather my stuff, load up and drive thru the other ice shacks and make a turn toward what I thought was my way off of the ice. It's now white out conditions, I can't see more than 10 feet in front of my Jeep. I go and go, using the wind direction as my compass to get out. After a half hour I realize I'm totally lost in a snow storm on Little Bay de Noc. My wife knows where I went, the Bay, but she's also used to me staying out fishing to all hours so no help from her until maybe the next morning. I don't have a phone or a compass. Now here's the scary part....

The bay is iced over but the big lake is not. It would be EASY to drive off the ice into the open water in a white out. I flip my Jeep and try to follow my tire tracks back from where I came from. But's its been blowing and snowing and I soon can't see any tracks, I'm driving blind again. Totally fucking lost, moving at about 5mph I'm thinking about how I have less than a quarter tank of gas and almost no white gas for the lantern. Going to be 12+ hours before morning and light. Temps in the low teens and dropping, wind howling, I'm in a bad spot.

Just as I'm about to give up and sit for the night I nearly run straight into an ice shack. I get out and look around, this is where I started from. Grab my spud and go to where I set up near the shacks but everything is snowed over, no sign of me. I start walking and pushing my spud thru a foot of fresh snow over the top of the ice. Back and forth, never letting the nearest shack out of sight. And in sight means no more than maybe 20 feet in all that snow coming down/sideways. If I get lost on foot I'm a goner, just another ignorant troll on the books. Suddenly I hit a fresh hole, one of my tip up holes. From that I figure out where I had my shanty set up and sure enough I find my 3 holes in a row. I go back to my Jeep and drive it to the 3 holes. I try hard to remember the straight line I drove out from shore and away I go at 5mph. Now it's really snowing hard, I can see 5 feet in front of my Jeep. I creep along forever and suddenly cattails are poking out of the ice. Get out walk thru the cattails and it's a short steep hill, no way out. A fifty fifty call, I turn right and try to keep the cattails in sight on my left as I creep along at maybe 3mph. Another 20 minutes, I'm about to turn around, and I see the glowing lights of the hotel thru the snow. There's the access and I get the fuck off the ice.

I fished for about 3 hours and was lost in the whiteout on the ice for 5 hours.

Don't do what I did.

About 8 inches of ice in North Central ND.

During First Ice be safe and always bring a buddy…

What are some of your best successfully lures ice fishing?

Hey everyone, looking for some advice. Frostbite has some new jigs (https://fishfrostbite.ca/collections/plasitcs/products/yabba-dabba-tube-3-pack-1)

What jig heads would work best for these? Thanks