What do you need...
 

...To ice fish walleye, perch and pike? Thanks for the help! Also techniques?

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I've always used tip-ups and large chubs and suckers for pike through the ice. Perch was little jigs,mousies and long lines. Don't know about the walleye, but i'd guesss the tip-up with a smaller minnow would work.

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Grubs on miniscule hooks and minnows under a bobber for perch. For northerns either jig with a shiner or chub or use a tip-up with a minnow equal to or larger than a shiner. Also possibly use a wind jigging tip-up with a dead bait. Size of minnows depends on how aggresively the fish are feeding. For walleyes put a shiner underneath a tip-up or jig with chubs. A minnow head or fish eye on a jigging rapala or jigging spoon also works well. Fish eyes are illegal in some states like minnesota.

For more information buy In-fisherman Ice fishing secrets 1 and 2. Secrets 1 is more helpful but 2 has some more in depth information.

As for equipment you will want a method for cutting ice, a fish house portables are the best, light action rods with 2-6 lb. test for perch, medium action rods with 8-12 lb. test for walleyes, medium heavy action rod for pike with 14-20 lb test for pike. Tip ups with tip up line and a steal leader. Use a quick strike rig for dead baits on the jigging tip ups and a single hook for live bait on the stationary tip ups.

A flasher depthfinder is a nice thing but not necessary. The Vexlar FL-8 is my favorite many offer fancy stuff that you don't need.

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Thanks for helping guys!

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very welcome

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Ok heres a list of stuff I'd need thanks from help of you guys.

2-man ice fishing shelter
float coat and bibs
2hp auger
2 5oz pales to store tackle
12 lb rod for 'eyes
14 lb rod for notherns
jigs
spoons
cb radio
sled haul stuff

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I am not sure what kind of perch you are fishing for? But, for white perch tip-ups, line, hooks, sinkers, a bucket with some small live bait in it. The ice shack is a plus along with an auger and if the water is clear enough one of those under water cameras so you can watch the fish below.

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I agree with all the above give the fish what they want. for big pick use the quick set rigs like mentioned above but I lkie the big 8'' to 12'' sucker minnows. Walleyes use a swedish pimple or similar jigging spoon tipped with a minnow head on active fish, if the fish are slower I like a golden shiner hung under a bobber or tip up. now for perch they eat anything, just about. I prefer to use as light of line as possible 2-4 on perch 4-6 on walleyes but the pike you will need the heavy stuff try the new fireline thats translucent. Good luck

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I use heavy line for heavy fish bigiron but yeah if you have small fish go as light as possible.

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This is my favorite perch tip-up, and it is home made out of dowels! Here in most lakes we can use 5 tip-ups and I like to set these so that they look like the 5 on a dice. I try to keep them 10 to 15 feet apart because when the perch bite they bite. I also use live bait ( minnows ) on them.

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I like useing the polar tip-ups for a lot of other types of fish as they can run with it. We do not have the walleyes or pike here. We do have pickeral and Lake trout here though. Most all my ice fishing is with live bait though.

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Ok I've thought more about it and here's what I'd bring:

2lb rod for perch
5lb rod for walleyes
jigs
minnows
walleye tackle kit
2 5 gallon pails
folding auger
camping chairs
sled

What do tip ups do?Do you set your rod on it and when a fish hits it the flag pops up?

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What a friggin idiot, God [8D]

A tip up is its own thing it has a spool that goes down in the water on a shaft and then on the other end of the shaft there is a notched trigger which you put the flag under and when a fish bites it makes the trigger spin causing the flag to go up alerting the user that there is a fish on the user then picks up the tip up which is usually frozen in the whole and you pull up the fish hand over hand.

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Why are you calling me an idiot? I'm just a kid i was just asking you what a tip up is.

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I wasn't serious I was just quoting napoleon dynamite. Sorry If you took it to heart but they showed pictures of tip ups. And you're not the only kid on here.

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I am sorry if it offended you but, I see nothing wrong with posting pics of a tip-up or 2. One was home made and one was purchased. Basically I am telling mallard stalker that you do not need to go all out to try ice fishing. Here we use a lot of different types as I currently have 8 different types for my style of fishing. Sometime we use an alder bush we call a withe. We freeze one end in the ice with the tip hanging over the hole. There a line is attached with hook and sinker, and set at the desired depth. Halfway from the tip of bush to the ice we like to tie half a playing card to keep the line moving a little bit. When a fish is on the bush bounces up and down. Also we like to use tip-ups as we like to have some nice fires on shore to cook our lunches over. So ice fishing doesn't need to be costly and on a first try I would go cheap for a while. Good Luck!

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I'm so sorry, its ok.:DBut i'm the youngest one here(11)

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im a beginer but have caughten them most of my trips out

youll need a pole... 25 bucks? mines kind of stiffer than most other peoples since i also plan to go for pike walleye trout
line ive got 6 pound fire ice i think its called
and you just need some jigs .... they are like 1.00 each
split shots
and a hang auger 6 or 8 inches theyre about 40 bucks

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Try a 1/4 oz buck shot rattle spoon with a either a full or head of a minnow. We slaughter the eyes with htese on Lake of the Woods.

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I saw a few guys on tv that were fishing Lake of the woods. They were also using that buckshot rattle spoon from northland tackle. They hammered them up there.

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too bad lake of the woods is 2 days of driving from here:(