Your Go-To Ice Tackle

[BeeGuy]

Ok,

Forget hardware, electronics, reels, line, tip-ups, automatic fishermen, bait and the lot.

What is your must have ice tackle.

Name your TOP 5.

Here's mine:

1. Gamagatsu Octopus Hook #12
2. Gamagatsu Octopus Hook #2
3. White Jig
4. size 14 nymphs
5. lead

[pickrel pat]

1st 3 are the same as you plus a wireworm and bait of some sort.

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by pickrel pat

1st 3 are the same as you plus a wireworm and bait of some sort.

Im excluding bait, otherwise I would have to add maggots and smelt/minnow in there somewhere.

[Graffy91]

Glow in the dark jig heads with white jigs, or pink jigs.

The classic rattlin raps hugged to have been slaying like as well.

[BeeGuy]

I just got my first rattlin rap.

Hopefully it'll work on the bows and lakers

[WayneChristie]

Auger and then heater, the rest is optional I like half ounce jigs and minnows or pieces of sucker for bait for walleye. quickstrike rig and herring for pike . the rest dont count

[bwackwabbit]

The one item I can't live without is a
VMC Spinshot. The perfect dropshot hook for open water walleye and pike and killer for whites and perch through the ice. Tip it w/maggot or waxie, tie on a Gold Bell (Thumper) 12" below and hold on!

Cheers.

[fish gunner]

Vertical rattlers.
Jigging rap.
Sz 10 owner hook.
5 od canoe spoon.
Power bait tubes.
My go to stuff .
The colors are secret.lol.

[AdverseCity]

I'm not skilled enough to catch fish on lures so my list would be:

1 - Baited jig
2 - Baited treble
3 - baited pickerel rig
4 - baited vertical Rapala
5 - baited hook

My only proven theory is "Whatever you're using, it'll work better with bait"

[Richard B.]

Swedish pimple (silver) with what ever bait and a quick strike on the tip up and a very comfy chair - good to go

[Cal]

Originally Posted by Richard B.

Swedish pimple (silver) with what ever bait and a quick strike on the tip up and a very comfy chair - good to go

x2,
#1 Silver and green #3 swedish pimple
#2 small teardrop tied 6" above the Pimple dropshot style

With #1 and #2 one could probably catch anything that swims in alberta.

#3 00 size 5 of Diamonds
#4 1/3 oz Little Cleo, Blue and silver
#5 baited #4 trebble hook with a bead above it.

[jacenbeers]

I don't really have a top 5 because I pretty much use the same two or three different lures:

Glow jig with smelt
Small hooks with maggots for whitefish
Wetaskiwin specials

[thorne]

I quite prefer this bad boy....

[pecker]

something to quench the thirst . rest is optional .

[fish gunner]

Originally Posted by thorne

I quite prefer this bad boy....

And no more Nantucket sleigh rides, boo sleigh rides rule.

[EZM]

Originally Posted by thorne

I quite prefer this bad boy....

Me too ........ except on perch.

1) Gigs White or Glow with Minnow
2) Hooks and sinkers with Herring / Smelt / Minnow
3) Flys - tip with maggot for whites
4) Kastmasters (or small heavy spoon) with or without bait
5) Buzz bombs with or without bait

and about a dozen other favorites ........... depending on my target

[Lornce]

1. flies
2. Swedish teardrop
3. Wire worms
4. Buck-tail jigs (home made)
5. Wetaskiwin Special

[FishingFrenzy]

Home made fluro-carbon bait rig, with a nice juicy smelt - for pike of course.

1/64oz jig heads in white - for perch/shiners/whites/rainbows/brookies

Mepps Syclops is sometimes decent for attracting the fish.

Tiny tube jigs for rainbows

I mostly go for pike with the fluro rig so thats about it. I've got a nice perch pattern jigging spoon that works sometimes.

[BeeGuy]

I'm going to switch out my gamagatsu oct #12 for Raven #12.

Man, those are bloody good hooks.

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by thorne

I quite prefer this bad boy....

'poon canon

good for broods

[bentley]

Originally Posted by WayneChristie

Auger and then heater, the rest is optional I like half ounce jigs and minnows or pieces of sucker for bait for walleye. quickstrike rig and herring for pike . the rest dont count

# 3 Rum , # 4 Rum , # 5 Dark Rum

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by bentley

# 3 Rum , # 4 Rum , # 5 Dark Rum

ooooo that's the recipe for gout!

but delicious. I love rum

[Cal]

Just curious about the rampant popularity of jigs. IMO they arent even a lure, just two componants of a standard bait rig combined, just like a bait rig they are only as good as what you put on them. While they are conveniant to tie on and fish, most other methods of fishing bait or plastic will give you more time to set the hook and you can use as much weight as you need without changing the action of your bait. I do use jigs simply because they are conveniant to tie on but I've never understood their huge following, am I going to hell?

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by Cal

Just curious about the rampant popularity of jigs. IMO they arent even a lure, just two componants of a standard bait rig combined, just like a bait rig they are only as good as what you put on them. While they are conveniant to tie on and fish, most other methods of fishing bait or plastic will give you more time to set the hook and you can use as much weight as you need without changing the action of your bait. I do use jigs simply because they are conveniant to tie on but I've never understood their huge following, am I going to hell?

I agree.

Jigs are like ketchup. It's what you use when you don't know there is something better.

I use an octopus hook and split shot more often than a jig, but if I'm at spray, a small white jig and stinger gets the job done.

[FishingFrenzy]

Originally Posted by BeeGuy

I agree.

Jigs are like ketchup. It's what you use when you don't know there is something better.

I use an octopus hook and split shot more often than a jig, but if I'm at spray, a small white jig and stinger gets the job done.

Wrong. There is nothing better than ketchup... a little friction reducer makes anything go down easier.

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by fishingfrenzy

wrong. There is nothing better than ketchup... A little friction reducer makes anything go down easier.

twss

[BeeGuy]

I never had a pike bend a gamagatsu open, but jigs are notorious for it.

[pickrel pat]

Might not ne to glamorous, but jigs just flat out work.

[BeeGuy]

I think the unifying tool here is the hook.

Hooks catch fish, no two ways about it.

[valley13]

swedish pimple
1/4 oz glo jig
baileys