Favorite fish to target through the ice?

[Burnham]

just curious as to wat people enjoy catchin the most through the ice. Walleyes, panfish, northerns, etc.? heck even rough fish?...i only ice fish for panfish right now, well at least for 29 more days because thats when i'll be 16 and able to drive to lakes that have walleyes, and that good stuff.

[harvey lee]

I have always loved the nicer gills and slab crappies. I also do enjoy the eyes. For the last few years I have begun to fish for lakers and all I can say is wow.

They are fun to watch while you try to catch them, great to watch how they will chase your bait down and really put up a great fight. Kinda like catching a freight train as they will pull that hard..

A great fish on a ice rod.

[sodajerk]

I like fishing stream trout through the ice. They put up a great fight in the winter.

I like fishing panfish too for the numbers of fish that can be caught. If nothing else is biting, sometimes I'll tie on a small jig and tip it with spikes and catch a bunch of small gills or sunnies.

Of course, a northern running with a sucker minnow and peeling line off your tip-up spool is a good time too.

Overall though, I guess I'd have to say I get the most out of catching stream trout in the winter. Never fished for lake trout before.

[jwhjr]

Crappies for the most part and then northern.

[eyebjim]

90% walleyes

9% Panfish

1% everything else

[Northlander]

Walleye, Crappie, Gills, Lakers, Salmon and even Pout. Heck if they are biting Ill chase them around for a while.

[Schloogs]

Walleye, crappie, gills, and northern

[gopher_nation]

1. walleye

2. perch

3. northerns

[Quickstrike]

Lake Trout hands down. I've only done it for about 5 years, but I look forward towards it much more than any other type of ice fishing. They hit the hardest, fight the hardest, and their over all aggressiveness just amazes me sometimes. Each fish that comes in to the marcum is a rush.

[Flaco651]

Mainly walleye and crappie through the ice for me. Maybe even some jumbos if there where ever I'm fishing. Chasin' flags for pike can be fun too.

[hanson]

The more and more I think about it... Crappies!

They can be finicky, they can be aggressive. They can be shallow, they can be deep. They can like minnows, they can like plastics. They can be on the bottom, they can be suspended. They can be in the weeds, they can be in the open.

Everyone wants to catch big crappies and I find this challenging. Its the constant searching and experimenting that I love.

Yup... Crappies!

[perch_destroyer]

Pan fish on very light tackle is fun, but, pikes and walleye are fun to, the perch

[keyks42]

Hanson

Crappies are always fun but this year I've had alot of fun targeting big bluegills. Most years eyes and perch are favorite but with the big pond being so mess up i've been fishing smaller lakes. If I'm fishing it's doen't matter what I catch even a SKUNK will do.

Mark

[hanson]

 Originally Posted By: keyks42

Hanson

Crappies are always fun but this year I've had alot of fun targeting big bluegills.

I will absolutely agree with you that "big" fish of any species rank very, very high on my list! Big gills... you are darn straight!

Here's my biggest Bluegill of the year so far! I have very, very high hopes of topping this one late this winter on this particular body of water!

[keyks42]

Very nice I've caught a few over 10" this year on the same lake and many around 9". It's been a blast and probably wouldn't of found them if it wasn't for the early snow.

Mark

[maros91]

1. Walleyes

2. Crappies

3. Perch

[jigging-matt]

1. Crappie

2. Sunnies

3. Perch

4. Walleyes

[Deitz Dittrich]

I target mostly panfish throughout the ice season. I do chase walleye some as well.. but still mostly gills and crappie.

[CrappieNut]

1. crappies

2. crappies

3. crappies

4. if i get a wally fishing for crappies, thats cool too

crappie were a very hard thing for us(dad and i ) to catch at the lake our cabin is on about 10 years ago, now you catch them more than sunnys. so still to this day its rewarding to catch them

[Steve Foss]

1. Lake trout

2. Lake trout

3. Lake trout

4. Anything else

Nothing matches the laker for aggressiveness and fight through the ice. Anywhere in the water column, any time, and a 5 pounder pulls like a 20 pound pike.

Being a member of the char family like the brookie, lakers also are much better on the table than your typical rainbow or brown.

And I like that you find lakers up north in the Canadian Shield country. That is darn fine country to fish in no matter what the species.

[metrojoe]

Walleyes are at the top of the list, but the bite can be so inconsistent. I just don't have the time anymore to hunt them down. Second on the list would be crappies and sunfish. Which is actually what I fish for most often, mainly because of the abundance of good panfish lakes less than an hour from my home. I also like to throw out a tip-up for northern as well. In fact, I've got some fresh pickled pike in the fridge right now that should be ready to eat today.

[DEADhead]

trout for me. I don't care if they are stream trout or lakers. they are fun to catch and eat!

[eyehead]

Thru the ice....

1.Walleye

2.Northern

3.Gills

[Zenit]

1. Brook, Brown, & Rainbow Trout

2. Jumbo Perch

3. Slab Crappies

4. Everything else.

[rockman]

Crappies,big bluegills,walleyes,then northerns.My favorite new fish on the ice after catching a 5 lb.er a couple of weeks a go is the channel cat.That cat was my first ever thru the ice, and it won't be my last, no sir! One catfish, and I am hooked!