Favorite Ice Tackle (names and pics please)

Ok, so ice fishing's almost here and I love ice fishing more than open water fishing. It's cold...yes...but you can get on some great panfish and fast action! I have started replenishing (buying more than I already have :banghead) my ice fishing tackle for this season and I want to know what you guys like the most for targeting different species!? Last year I got away with using a small 1/64-1/100 orange/ yellow tear drop jig with some waxies and I used a TON of spoons last year. I stuck with a swedish pimple for the most part but I have a couple smaller spoons that caught a lot of fish too!

I want to get some of the new slender spoons to, but they're like $4.50 each. Used a lil' cecil a lot last year and some demon jigging spoons.
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The crappie are moved up in the docks here in NE now so I'm slamming them with a jiggin' rap and some tube jigs but I still can't wait for the freeze!!

Let's hear what you like to use the most!

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I love these blood worms from Northland for crappie and bluegill

I got a few of those...kinda look like the ratsos and shrimpos...I haven't used them a lot, but I'm hoping for more ice this year to try more things! ;P Was going to post some pics but I can't get the site to load at work...

I use trigger x wax tails on 1/80th oz leadheads or tungston jigs.

Have you ever used the trigger x wax tail any time other than when your ice fishing? Looks like it might be a good bait for finicky winter/spring... What colors do you like the best?

Has anybody seen these yet? I've thought about giving them a try but the 8.99 price tag is a little ridiculous...these, I'm assuming, are just like the smaller lindy darter but they look a lot more realistic. All the crappie near me are feeding heavy on small shad and starting to transition to eating small invertebrates. I've caught some and cut open their stomachs and only a few out of a batch have some sort of minnow/shad in them. I'd think these would work well for bass, big crappie, and pike though!
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The original slender spoons can be bought straight from cjs for less than 3.00 for the big ones. I just got a few of the small ones for 1.99 from mills fleet farm

I use just about all jigging spoons similar to and including the Demons, Lindy Frosty for crappies and generally tip one of the hooks with a very thin active plastic. If I want sunfish I add a waxie or goldenrod grub.

Here's picture of just a couple of my smaller spoon boxes in the colors I like.

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Some of these spoons are Go Devils and even a few Forage Minnow spoons. That purple with the glow dot is one I do on gold plated spoons and is probably the best of all color combinations I have ever used.

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I love these blood worms from Northland for crappie and bluegill

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Are these the ones with floating head?

No. I use them too.

NO they aren't. I just got some Northland Impulse soft plastics. Went out today and was sure the ice would be safe. NOPE!!! Its been below freezing for over a week and had acouple nights in single digits. Not even close to safe ice yet.

We've been ice fishing for 3 weeks in Colton NY (11" of ice on Sunday), the crappie have been very active so far.

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We've been ice fishing for 3 weeks in Colton NY (11" of ice on Sunday), the crappie have been very active so far.

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What are you using to get them?

Contraband baits fat head Fry jigs, and waxy jigs have done well here.

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Jigtwins I saw those pics and liked them so much I had to order a few!! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by barrelslime

<img src="http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attachment.php?attachmentid=142763"/> I love these blood worms from Northland for crappie and bluegill

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X3. If you put the tails on a tungsten jig it gets down the hole faster. Sometimes you have to change color a few times to see what they want that day. I find the red tails work well and the sparkly, glow white one is my favorite. But sometimes green is the ticket. Finicky little buggers.

I don't believe so.

Jordy, Depends on what your fishing for, Bluegill will take anything from a small jig to spoons tipped with a wax worm. I bought some chubby darters (small) for crappie and was surprised how well it worked. My flasher would be blank and after jigging the darter three or four time marks would show up, then working the marks they would take and crappie on the ice. I don't have that many areas that have crappie in them but the ponds that do it seems to work. My thoughts only. Good luck hope you have a good season on the ice.