favorite hook for tip-ups

[Guest]

Whats everybodies favorite kind of hook to use for tip-ups?

[Guest]

For pike I like using a Quick strike rig or a single #4 or #2 hook, For Walleyes I have been using a #6 or #8 FROSTEE jig in glow blue that has worked pretty good for me this year.

[Guest]

I use a treble hook or just two single hook, then i let the pike/eye take it for a while and set the hook in a smooth manner

[Steve Foss]

Depends on what I'm fishing for. For pike I use quick-strike rigs, nothing better for that, and that's enough said. For waldos it's either a bare #6 or #8 hook or a glow demon with a back-hooked minnow. The glow demon in stained water, the bare minnow/hook in clear. I guess some guys swear by this hook or swear by that hook, but I've used Eagle Claw, Gamakatzu and who knows how many others and caught fish on all.

In either case, each day brings its own challenges. Even with quick-strikes for pike, sometimes you've go to wait until they finish their first run and start their second run before setting the hook. Other days you can set it as soon as you get to the flag. Same with walleye tips, sometimes right now, sometimes wait.

I start every day as though the fish are aggressive, setting it as soon as I get to the tip. If the fish are moving slower than that, they'll let me know, and I'll start waiting longer before sets.

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[icehousebob]

For northern fishing with tip-ups, I like 45auto bass worm hooks, sizes 2/0 or 3/0 with coated steel leaders. When using shiners or suckers, they have really increased my hook setting percentage. For dead bait,quickstrike treble rigs. For walleye or large perch I like either a single hook flash jig when they're aggresive or a Tru-Turn hook size 4 or 6 when they bite light. I like to fish them with a 6# Flourocarbon leader.

[Jim W]

Keep in mind MN regs when rigging tip-ups. No trebles unless you rig as a lure.

I like a plain hook combining on occasion circle hooks when re-tying.

Keep the rods bendin' and the flags flying high!!!

Jim W

[hattrk4me]

I use the Owner Super Muto Circle hook. #2 or #4, I get a lip hook 99% of the time.
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Ive use these saltwater fishing and tried them on my tip ups and they work just as well. You don't need to worry about using that wire leader, just a strong fireline leader.