Tips and tricks on the ice

[Baxter1]

Nice read Keith, what you said about the hand over hand thing brought back memories of when i first started ice fishing, and that is how we did it. Also dont miss using the spoon type of auger 1 bit. And it wasn't until i read a couple of articles in In-Fisherman by Dave Genz, that put me on the right track and made ice fishing easier.
Man that was a long time ago.

Dad still fishes hand over hand.I do once in awhile,then I get a mell of a hess with my line and get jacked. He gets in a mess quite often and says i might have to get an outfit like you have.He still has a spoon type auger,his cuts pretty good.You don't see them very often.

[bttmline]

Hey Keith
how about where you are fishing? Shallow, Deep, weeds, brush. Like going to a new lake, Where do you start??

[crappiekeith]

I'll look for the deep holes for slabs and 10-13 fow for the gills.
Then punch a bunch of hole going back to read them with my flasher.

[ready2fish]

need some input on something thats been bothering me. Every once in a while, especially yesterday afternoon while looking for crappie i will find em but for some reason i catch only small ones, i fish mostly 30 to 35 foot of water( max depth for most lakes) but yesterday i went to a different lake and i found em in 50 ft of water , My flasher was staying lite up with small ones, i moved around but i think they followed me.

my ? is what can i do and how to i find the bigger ones, i know there is bigger ones.. Is the answerer as simple , move till you find em

[crappiekeith]

Sometimes the conditions are such that the bite is tough and only little ones bite.
That's just the way it is.
Try bigger baits.Then there's always dynomite.

[ready2fish]

Sometimes the conditions are such that the bite is tough and only little ones bite.
That's just the way it is.
Try bigger baits.Then there's always dynomite.

well i tried you first idea , used some bigger jigs i have and punched holes all over, 30, 40, 50 ft and them little crappie followed me everywhere i go. I must say there lots of small crappie in that lake.

now off to trying your second idea :D

[crappiekeith]

Switch lakes maybe.