Ice Jigs for Pike??

[JoeKer]

Anyone use jigs for icing pike? Looking for larger, tougher jigs for catching some pike ice-fishing. Any suggestions and sizes would be appreciated! I know a plain hook or a quick strike rig with a minnow work but looking to try something different. Thanks in advance!

[Cliff Wagenbach]

I have had good luck using 3/8oz to 3/4oz Bucktail jigs baited with a shiner or a pike sucker.

White, yellow, or a combo of those colors have been the best colors for me.

Cliff

[Jarrod32]

For jigging pike, I have found the Mepps Cyclops to be a good jigging spoon. Tip it with a minnow or minnow head to add some 'meat', and it can be quite effective.

[Ed Carlson]

A thin 9" steel leader with a Hot Tiger Salmo Zipper, Gold Metallic Orange Zipper, Silver Blue Orange Zipper, or the Hot Perch Zipper.... for me they are are pure Gator Magnets, it I like it or not some days.

I like a 1-2 system, rip the Zippers, then have a dead bait like a Herring very near me on a Frabill Thermal Tip-Up.

Some days it's a spoon thing, like a KO Wobbler, or a Krocodile Spoon, something flashy anyway, with lots of flutter.

If the do not Whack the Salmo Zipper or the Kroc Spoon, they tend to go for the smelly Herring on the Tip-Up. Either way, it SnotRocket time.

[JimBuck]

The Mepps Cyclops is my ol' standby for jigging pike.

[Finlander]

The largest Jigging Raps with a minnow head on the bottom hook is hard for a pike to resist! Any color works! Just get next to the outside of a good weed bed the same place you would put a tip-up!

[GotALunker]

yep, mepps cyclops is a trusty companion

also try a larger swedish pimple... those are successful,

otherwise yes, just a regular bucktail jig tipped with a minnow head is great.

[LOTWSvirgin]

Has anyone tried or had any luck on The lindy slick jigs for pike jigging??

[irishwalleye]

Northland AirPlane jig, #6 Chubby Darter, Rat-L-Trap

[irishwalleye]

Eddy --

How does the leader change the action of your "zippers"? I found it completely ruins it on the darters.

[MN BassFisher]

Has anyone tried or had any luck on The lindy slick jigs for pike jigging??

I was fishing in about 9-10 feet of clear water a few weeks ago. You could sight fish if you bent over the hole. I threw on a slick jig with a minnow and was bouncing/swimming it around and I watched a small northern come in and slam it. It was pretty fun. My cousin had the same happen to him on a Forage Minnow.

[Ed Carlson]

Eddy --

How does the leader change the action of your "zippers"? I found it completely ruins it on the darters.

Good question.

On the Zipper it has more vibration ans wobble on the upswing then the fall in comparison to the Salmo Chubby Darter, so it's really not much of a factor if you use a thin wire leader on Pike. If you do not, they will eat it sure as heck...ZIP...GONE!.

I RIP the Zippers hard, RIP-RIP-RIP...make a @%LL of a clatter to call them in. Pike and Muskie get P'ed off when agitated, and that is a part of this plan. Get the fiery ones to whack it, let the poky ones take a poke at the dead bait offering if they wish.

[JoeKer]

Awesome guys, thanks for the replies!! With your help so far looks like I'm for sure picking up some of the Mepps Syclops, Northland AIR-PLANE JIG "Magnum" Series, some of the large Yakima Bait Slab Master jigging spoons, and some of the Bagley Belly Button Bucktail Jigs! All those are dynomite!

[Jospeh]

Chubbie Darter nuff said!!!!