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how do you great lakes/big water lads target the eyes? I find myself sitting in the shack getting ripped staring at my vex. Should I be running around from hole to hole in 40 ft of water that is generally uniform with vex searching/run tip-ups (which I find the least productive) etc? I generally sit there with the largest buckshot tipped with three fatheads and just swim the "octopus" around the marks when they show up. is that lazy? Should I just stay on land and hunt rodents?

We tip up fish, as many as you can run cover from shallow to deep, big bait small hooks two foot off the bottom.

I don't use a graph.

Disclaimer, I am no pro and don't catch an assload of eyes but we do often out catch those around us

Ask bulldog, he has a fancy fishing hat

Go sit where all the shanties are.


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jehler wrote:We tip up fish, as many as you can run cover from shallow to deep, big bait small hooks two foot off the bottom.

I don't use a graph.

Disclaimer, I am no pro and don't catch an assload of eyes but we do often out catch those around us

How you rig wally tip up? leader material especially?

Mornin Beef wrote:

jehler wrote:We tip up fish, as many as you can run cover from shallow to deep, big bait small hooks two foot off the bottom.

I don't use a graph.

Disclaimer, I am no pro and don't catch an assload of eyes but we do often out catch those around us

How you rig wally tip up? leader material especially?

8-10 pound floro maybe 4', 14 treble with just enough splitshot to sink the bait

20 or 50 pound cheap braid for the main line

Real small bobber to mark your depth for quick reset

Mornin Beef wrote:

jehler wrote:We tip up fish, as many as you can run cover from shallow to deep, big bait small hooks two foot off the bottom.

I don't use a graph.

Disclaimer, I am no pro and don't catch an assload of eyes but we do often out catch those around us

How you rig wally tip up? leader material especially?

I run a walleye rig on my tip ups. Haven't noticed a decrease in pike, but a much bigger increase in walleyes. Still don't catch very many..maybe 1 or 2 a day.

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jehler wrote:Real small bobber to mark your depth for quick reset

I use a button for this.

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Eric Haynes wrote:

jehler wrote:Real small bobber to mark your depth for quick reset

I use a button for this.

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Like a regular ole button?

jehler wrote:

Mornin Beef wrote:

jehler wrote:We tip up fish, as many as you can run cover from shallow to deep, big bait small hooks two foot off the bottom.

I don't use a graph.

Disclaimer, I am no pro and don't catch an assload of eyes but we do often out catch those around us

How you rig wally tip up? leader material especially?

8-10 pound floro maybe 4', 14 treble with just enough splitshot to sink the bait

How far above the hook do you put your SS? I've been putting it 2ft up since last year and it seems to be doing good.

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18" or so

We used to run the bait 12 above a hard bottom or the weeds, this year we have been running them higher an doin better. 2'ish

I'll see if I have any rigs laying around for a picture.

How many tips can you have in MI? We can only have 5 out here in NY. Friends in VT can have 15 a person...

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We get 3 per person, always bring the kids fishing lol

Once again read my disclaimer!

Would like some input from bull an bill herian

You guys are lucky. We get two lines per person in the winter only, be it two tip ups, one pole and one tip up, two rattle reels, etc.

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Goldfish wrote:You guys are lucky. We get two lines per person in the winter only, be it two tip ups, one pole and one tip up, two rattle reels, etc.

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Wow that sucks
We get 5 tips and 2 poles and I thought we had it bad. Going over to VT is tiring. Setting up 15 tipups then catching pike all day gets expensive

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Our three is total, including rods

jehler wrote:Our three is total, including rods

Damnn

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Eric Haynes wrote:

jehler wrote:Our three is total, including rods

Damnn

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Saves money in equipment, only plus

These are what I've been running. Varying in sizes of blades, but #8 hooks with a steel leader on all of them.

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Eric Haynes wrote:These are what I've been running. Varying in sizes of blades, but #8 hooks with a steel leader on all of them.

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No steel leaders here. We don't target pike often but if we do we just use 17 pound floro

jehler wrote:

Eric Haynes wrote:These are what I've been running. Varying in sizes of blades, but #8 hooks with a steel leader on all of them.

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No steel leaders here. We don't target pike often but if we do we just use 17 pound floro

You aren't allowed or just don't?
Ive had too many pike chomp through my floro. Pike are more abundant here than walleyes. You will catch around 5:1 pike to walleye

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Just don't, but I have only fished for pike a handful of times, jgun does more often then me, what you use j?

My walleye rigs are #15 flourocarbon with a small (I don't know hook numbers, but pretty small) treble or red single hook. The #15 is great for walleye and should hold a good pike if you play her out.

Now..

Would you chotchballs take the blades off your pike rigs? Bugs me when no end when guys do that. For pike I run #50 powerpro (#12 diameter) with a slightly larger treble. The hooks I use for pike are almost always smaller, often much smaller than what I see other guy using, and I hook more of them. I never use steel leaders either. They are tacky and dumb. Nothing eats through #50 Powerpro. Like Jehler said, enough split shot to sink the bait.

My tip ups are spooled with #50 dacron (the stuff the old J-Plug harnesses are made out of) because I'm an idiot. It's just what I grew up using and its easy on my delicate hands. It freezes and swells something awful but I probably wont ever go to anything else.

jehler wrote:

Eric Haynes wrote:

jehler wrote:Real small bobber to mark your depth for quick reset

I use a button for this.

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Like a regular ole button?

Lot of guys use the button. I prefer the tiny little bobbers myself. Faster.

I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about but wanted to join in.

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3legged_lab wrote:I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about but wanted to join in.

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Walking on water

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Goldfish wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about but wanted to join in.

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Walking on water

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Jesus fishing!