Tip-up Fishing Tips

[Jmnhunter]

So if you have a tip up set in 15 feet of water you are aying it is better to set your minnow a foot below the ice rather than dropping it down 10 feet?

maybe alittle deeper that 1 but it depends on water clarity also; if the water is crystal clear, 1' under the ice can work great

[gardn184]

instead of using bobbers that you have to unclip everytime out I use a small white button with 2 holes, easy to slide on the line and you never have to take it off

[matthothand]

If you have a bigger minnow that keeps setting off your flag pick up a clip like the ones used on trolling boards. They are plastic clips that pinch the line between rubber discs. Tie it onto your tip up so it hangs down to the depth of your spool and clip the line to that and send it down.

If you're in an area with a fair amount of traffic or your set isn't nearby put something, anything, next to your tip up so other people don't run it over. You could also stick a reflector in the snow at night so tip up locations are found quick and easily with any light.

Technology has improved...try using leaders made from heavy flourocarbon rather than the more visible steel.

[bikeoutback]

When I first learned we always set it a foot below the ice. I fish with a buddy who always set a couple feet off the bottom. Both have worked and we've recently been experimenting with both settings to see if either hits more than the other. So far inconclusive results. For the most part we start with our own settings and if one hits more than the other's we adjust the rest. Myself though I always did 1 foot below ice and still start that way at least.

[Bruce Mosher]

On a couple of my tip ups I put a "Rubber Snubber" which is basically a 7" surigical tubing with about 50 lb test inside it with split rings on each end onto my line. That way when fighting a Big Fish it has a little more give on the head shakes. I lose less fish that way.

Bruce Mosher

[bunkerbay]

I bought a new tip up lure with two trebble hooks on it at flee farm the other day and havent had any luck with it. Just wondering if anyone else has used this and had any success?

[bigfish24]

i set my tip up about 2 to 3 feet below the ice and it works for me. i use sucker minnows on a cricle hook and put arrow on wich way the line comes off.

[wolfman-k]

I had a tip-up get run over by a snowmobile at night, so I spray painted a 5 gal. bucket with orange reflector paint and put it out by my set. That was years ago, now you can get really bright tape to work the same. I always clip one of the tail fins on a big sucker minnow, it struggles like all get-out & seems to attract some Northerns or Walleyes too.