Late afternoon jig rod test run
 

Since getting started with ice fishing last year, all I've really done is fish with a set of tip ups. While it's been incredibly productive for me in my minimal experience, I've always had a lingering curiosity in jigging. My member name would easily indicate that lol... So i scooped a combo this week with some tear drops and spoons, spooled it up last night and took it for a test run this afternoon. I set 4 tip ups and drilled 3-4 additional holes and jumped around with the jig rod. From 2:30-5:00 pm I managed 4 bass, 4 pickerel, and 2 nice perch. One of the pickerel was jigged on a Lindy toad in glow pink tipped with a mousie. It was my first ice jigged fish. There's def a learning curve with jigging, esp being as I was using a medium action rod and a tiny ass jig, but I can def see how people enjoy it so much. I'll def be doing more jigging. Looking forward to rippin binskys and some of the bigger spoons I picked up...

Not a bad 2.5 hours... Nice sunset, action, and my first fish jigged thru the ice!

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I'm with you on that route. Used to be strictly tipups now I use tip ups to pass time between jigging slow downs. Welcome to the craft

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go with sumthin wit some backbone jiggin binz or traps..I mite look like an idiot wit a bass rod but it puts out the good vibes!!! n that bite has never been real suddle..

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jigging is the best!!!tip-ups are good and have caught some great fish on them but when you hit a good jig bite there is nothing like it.congrats,sounds like you had a good few hours.

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i'll be honest, 50% of the time i don't even buy bait or use tip ups...then again i guess i don't catch many fish till spring time HAHAHA. I hardly ever use live bait open fresh water unless who i'm fishing with insists. saltwater, my buddy with the boat always insists haha

anyway when i do set the tip ups and also jig...i still sometimes catch more fish jigging. I had to teach myself how to fish so i have some pretty strange habits when it comes to fishing i guess, some times it pays off sometimes (ice fishing) it doesn't.

anyway looks like you had a good day and i can remember my first fish jigged (little perch) i'm pretty sure i yelled "yeah bit@@" like 5 times and punched the air like a lunatic. took me about 4 trips to land that first ice fish for me so you're way ahead of the curve jigging!