Tip up rigs & baiting.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

So what have you used and been successful with?

[elkoholic]

Quick strike rig and a hot dog! The cheapest hot dog u can find!

[mallardnwalleye]

On northerns- a quick strike rig hooked mouth and center dorsal off balance to the side or fin clipped so the bait has to stay moving.

Large marge golden Shiner best

Sucker second

Use a large egg sinker on the line above the leader.

Some people use a tiny bobber as a depth set. I like an exact bobber that offsets my sinker so that the sinker doesn't come down on the fish when it releases from the tip up.

Walleyes the same just use a smaller shiner or a rainbow chub on a fluoro leader with glow bead and small treble. hook it singly toward the back and a little out of balance.

Set sinker so it is neutral buoyant to a bobber and set the trip lighter than a northern.

Fish northerns above the weeds to bottom of ice. In deeper water out from the weeds fish close to the bottom.

Fish the eyes within a 1/2 ft to 1 1/2 ft off bottom from deep weededge out into deep 40 ft. water or just under the ice over a weed bed.

good luck!

[Putn'am ondaLine]

I'm keen to a few of your methods Mallardnwalleye, I would love to see a picture of your bait after it's rigged up sometime.

I've had my best success making my own quick strike rigs using 20lb Fluoro. For Pike, I'll use suckers or frozen cisco hooked so they sit horizontally. I feel the Fluoro really helps in seeing more flags

For walleye I'll often use just a single #8 treble on 3-5 foot length of 8-10lb fluoro with a shiner hooked through the side of the back. If the eyes are not very aggressive, I'll clip a heavy split shot about 8" up to keep the shiner from moving too much. Otherwise, I typically drop my tip up lines down with as little weight as possible, to no weight at all.

I've fished with 3 other guys at the same time who all had different ways of setting up their flags; we all saw fish, but we started to adjust our methods when some started getting more attention or others were getting dropped.