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Success or failure while ice fishing depends on the right gear we used.  When you are going to be success in ice fishing trips you must pack the right ice fishing gear and also bring along the right friends. Ice fishing gear come in variety and you can bring along more than just the basic essentials.

Some of the ice fishing gear that you need:

  • You need clothes that can give you warm and comfortable when using them
  • Hand warmers and gloves are needed because when you pull a fish through the ice your hands are going to be freezing cold
  • Snow shoes and thick warm boots, depend on the location and how you will be getting to the location
  • Pack extra socks, you might be need them as they can give you warm and dry
  • A fishing rod or two with sensitive tips but still have some strength just in case you haul in the big one
  • Bring some good line, 4 to 8 pound test is normally a good fit
  • Some kind of bait such as worms or crappie minnows are definitely very needed
  • Bring hooks and jig spoons to help you catch more fish if you need them
  • If you don’t have a proper ice fishing rig you can bring along a bobbers which lets you know when the fish make strike
  • Make sure to bring along some minor tools to remove hooks, cut the lines or anything else you might need them for
  • To remove any ice that forms in the hole that you have cut with the ice saw or the auger you need an ice scoop
  • Definitely you need a chair or something else to sit
  • A big bucket works good because you can haul your gear out in it and use it to haul you catch back home when you are done
  • Do not forget to bring extra food and beverage
  • To protect your eyes from the glare of the ice and snow you need sun glasses

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Another excellent crappie fishing rig that works well if you are fishing waters that are muddy or if you are fishing for crappies at night is a crappie spinner bait. The spinner fishing rig vibrates, flashes and shows motion that will attract curious crappie. One of the keen senses of crappie is their hearing. They are very sensitive to underwater vibrations. When water is muddy or stained and visibility is low crappie are likely to strike a flashing vibrating spinner fishing rig.

Another significant reason to use crappie spinner fishing rigs is the fact that you can cover allot more fishing waters. This may not seem important but if the crappies are hard to find you can save allot of valuable time. Crappie minnows and crappie jigs are excellent for known crappie fishing areas where slow and stationary crappie bait presentations work well, but if you are fishing new waters and you are not sure where the crappies are located fishing crappie spinner fishing rigs is a excellent way to find prime crappie fishing waters.

Crappie spinner fishing rigs are also great to use because you can cast them much farther and away from the water area you are located. There are a number of crappie fishing rigs that work well to catch crappie. One very simple spinner that can be clipped on to any crappie jig is called a safety pin spinner. A safety pin spinner has a v shaped wire frame with a small spinner blade. A line tie loop is located at the point of the v. The small spinner is located on one of the arms. On the other arm there is a clip that used to mount a crappie jig. Safety pin spinner fishing rigs can cover allot of water when you are fishing ultralight fishing tackle. The do catch crappie and other gamefish on a consistent regular basis. They also are very simple to fish with and are virtually weedless.

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When people think of fishing for crappie their first impression is that the majority of crappies are caught with crappie fishing jigs. But actually the majority of crappie are caught either with a complete live bait presentation or artificial bait tipped with some type of living bait. The most important type of crappie live bait that most fisherman use is some type of crappie minnow such as golden shiners, and flathead minnows. Both of these crappie minnow types are raised by the millions in fish farms through out the United States and sold at nearly all bait shops and bait dealers.

But there are still many fisherman that catch their own wild crappie minnows at the locations they intend to fish. The most common wild crappie minnows that fisherman catch on a regular basis for live bait are the bluntnose minnow,blacknose dace,creek chubs,hornyhead chubs,red shinners, and mud minnows. These fisherman use minnow seines, nets and minnow traps to catch their live bait.

The most hardy live bait fish and small gold fish like fathead minnows, mud minnows, and small gold fish will stay alive for long periods of time if the bait container they are stored in is aerated and they are kept cool. Then there are moderately hardy living bait fish like baby bluegills, creek chubs, horney head chubs, southern redbelly dace, blacknose dace, and bluntnose minnows. Then there are the fragile crappie baits that fisherman use that need to be caught and fished with almost immediately and they are the emerald shiner, small gizzard shad, threadfin shad and spotted shiners.

If you are primarily a crappie jig fisherman here's a good fishing tip when the crappies have absolutely turned off. Sometimes you can get crappies turn back on with a simple trick. go to your the most likely spot that should be producing crappie. Put about 1/2 dozen crappie minnows in a glass jar filled with water with the lid on tie a retrieve line on and lower the jar right next to the likely structure. wait about 15 minutes and tip your favorite crappie jig with a live minnow and start jigging right next to were your lowered the live bait minnow.

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