Plastics through the ice?

Anybody ever use plastic tails through the ice? I tried it a couple times with no luck.

yes, use them all the time hav'nt bought spikes or waxworms for years. I use a lot of horizontal fiska,skandia, diamond stlye jigs with them.

Great!! Just got some from Bob's Jigs that look really good, want to try them out...Thanks..

did you watch the video put together by Lake fork trophy lures? amazing... i never had luck with any plastics with any type
of fish thru the ice till recently... caught some really nice perch on a plastic jig that looks like a craw fish and tiped with a minnow
head:crazy:

Ya, that was some video. They were using plastic. Them boys were catching some really nice Crappies..

I've tried plastics a couple of times without any luck, then gave up on them. I'm sure a lot of it is a confidence thing. Just need to go out a few times with plastics only and give them a fair shot. Now all we need is some good ice.

Ice thing is not looking too good. We got a warm week coming up.

Plastic is my preferred approach to crappies under the ice. I do things a little outside of convention and use a standard 1/32 head and full-sized crappie plastics, those baits up to two inches in length. I do not have my focus on the bottom where most fish are being marked on locators, instead I look for the random blips well off the bottom....those that show up for a second or two then go away as fast as they show. I get my bait to the level of those phantom flashes since those seem to be the largerst and hungriest crappies that show no problem at hitting a larger bait at all. If I have to go smaller in plastic size, I go home.

I've seen them work fairly well for Perch, but I personally haven't had any success with them for Crappies.

I agree with CTom....afterall....Plastics are Fantastic!