Bait Scents

[boxoshawn]

Would you guys recommend any bait scents that you feel have helped you out on the ice? Any particular brands?

Thanks!

[BK19]

I use it maily when things are slow but also cause we always end up getting different scents on our hands like gas,food,smoke for those that do that,and other scents,I'm not particular about what I use anything that they sell as such I guess

[Ed Carlson]

Dr. Juice for walleye is good. If you can find it, get the Dr. Juice in a Chap Stick type container...great for lard baits...smear it on.

Little Atoms Scented plastics are exceptional for perch and Crappie and Gill's.

[OnAFly]

I'll second the Little Atoms - phenominal

[boxoshawn]

Excellent. I'm a young guy who loves to ice fish and am always looking for an advantage.

I have another question that's off this topic. I want to put together a post of ice strategies I've used to pull in nice fish with pictures from across the state (walleye, pike). Is this ok or does it need to go in a special forum?

[OnAFly]

In the species specific forums there is a tab called "What's working now"

Sounds like a great post, looking forward to reading it!

[boxoshawn]

Fish are biting nice right now. I've always slaughterd pike/walleye right before/during a blizzard.

This is what works for pike right now:

Set up a tip-up or 2 (if you're not jigging) in shallow water 3.5 - 7 ft of water, preferably on the shore side of a weedline. Standard Lindy spinner, treble hook and I like large shiners, but currently using suckers.

Change holes every hour and work your way down the shore paying extra attention to points.

Going to go into far more detail in my next post in the correct section, but this should give you a quick start when the fish are biting.

I've caught the largest Pike, Walleye and Muskie in the shallows even on unfamiliar lakes.

This also works real well on the backwaters of the mississippi, but be extremely careful, esepcially at this time of the year.