GOING FOR SLAB SUNFISH:   Where: Shallow, weedy bays with sand-gravel shorelines & points with stands of emergent vegetation. Place your bait in hard-to-reach spots, such as pockets in the weeds. Back ends of creek arms warm earliest in spring and draw sunfish in to spawn. Excellent summertime locations include creek channel edges and weedy humps. Main lake points that slope

Pike are aggressive predators and will take almost anything you offer them, including ice transducers. Most people use "tip-ups" when ice fishing for northern pike, although jigging will work also. Northern pike tend to be loners, and are found anywhere in the water column. Fishing 1-4 feet just below the ice is a good place to start. Use large, sharp hooks and big bait. Many anglers

TIPS & TRICKS FOR WINTER BLACK CRAPPIE Crappie are easy to catch and provide a nice sporting fight. Finding them is another story. Crappie tend to school together and wander all over the lakes they inhabit. Popular baits are shiners, hooked through the mouth and jigs tipped with grubs. When buying shiners, ask for the smaller baits. Keep your baits moving to trigger bites. Always keep

 - TROUT In lakes, deep-water trout feed best during the day, presumably when they can see the best. Shallow water trout feed best during dusk and dawn.  Most deep-water trout are caught on tip-ups, but you need a lot of line on the spool. In early season, the fish will be at mid-depth. Late in the season trout move shallow.  When ice fishing, keep in mind that trout have a

TIPS & TRICKS FOR WINTER YELLOW PERCH Fish just off the bottom of the lake. Yellow perch are known to eat worms and grubs that live on the bottom of lakes and ponds. They won't stray too far from the bottom in most cases, since that is where the warmest water is in the winter months. Set your tip-ups to be 1 foot to 6 inches off the bottom, and if you are jigging for perch with an ice rod,