I’m heading up to Lake of the Woods end the last weekend of this month and was wondering how people rig up their dead stick rods. Just a plain hook and minnow or minnow and a jig?It will be my first time up there and normally I don’t use a dead stick so any help will be appreciated.
When I dead stick (in Colorado for trout) I like to use a PK spoon, slender spoon, or tingler spoon with a live minnow. This set up does good for me. Good luck
Use a number 4 gold or glow red demon.
A fat Shiner on a Sureset Treble… or an 1/8 oz Tear Drop Jig (I like pink fire UV) and a fat head or shiner under a slip float.
Dead stick set up changes day to day up there just like what spoons they will hit one day and not the next.
Slender spoon, vmc tingler, vmc tumbler, I also like to take a gold glow red knockout and take the treble hook off it then tie on about a 3 to 5″ mono line with a red hook. 
Shhh… Knock out with dropper didn’t work!!!! 
On dead stick if you have a light tip it helps. I use my frabill quicktips for dead sticking they bend good a little light but get job done. Stick’em in a rod holder wait for them to bend and let them have it. 32″ works best seems to have some backbone to it. Switch to braid with mono leader helps drive it home.
1/4 or 1/8 pink and gold spoons with foam bobber.
Have had success with a slender spoon and a 3-4″ dropper on treble hook. Tip Down or dead stick
i dead stick with a gamakatsu glow circle hook….#4 i think
Thanks for the info guys. I will post a report after my trip. Thanks again and keep a tight line to all!
Not to cause controversy here, but….
Up at Red this weekend I will be trying out my first “deadsticking” within the defined rules of the single tackle configuration of 2-3 hooks 9″ apart total with minnows. Maybe a different look than what the fish are used to, can’t wait to try it. Got trebles and some sure sets as well if fail to hook up. Make my own little school of bait fish know what I’m sayin! How sweet to pull up 2 eyes at once, I’d poo myself!! 
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Not to cause controversy here, but….
Up at Red this weekend I will be trying out my first “deadsticking” within the defined rules of the single tackle configuration of 2-3 hooks 9″ apart total with minnows. Maybe a different look than what the fish are used to, can’t wait to try it. Got trebles and some sure sets as well if fail to hook up. Make my own little school of bait fish know what I’m sayin! How sweet to pull up 2 eyes at once, I’d poo myself!!
I raise a motion that we ban the word “Poo”
After the lengthy discussion on the new rig Nhamm I’ll be anxious to hear how it works!
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Not to cause controversy here, but….
Up at Red this weekend I will be trying out my first “deadsticking” within the defined rules of the single tackle configuration of 2-3 hooks 9″ apart total with minnows. Maybe a different look than what the fish are used to, can’t wait to try it. Got trebles and some sure sets as well if fail to hook up. Make my own little school of bait fish know what I’m sayin! How sweet to pull up 2 eyes at once, I’d poo myself!!
Isnt the definition of a “rig” 2-3 hooks within 9″ (just making sure I read that right)? So your three hooks would have to be 3″ apart each? Be curious to see how it works. I see a lost fish in your future when the top treble catches the bottom of the hole on the way up. Did it many times with a single #10 hook a few years ago, treble is 3 times as likely to catch the ice.
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Not to cause controversy here, but….
Up at Red this weekend I will be trying out my first “deadsticking” within the defined rules of the single tackle configuration of 2-3 hooks 9″ apart total with minnows. Maybe a different look than what the fish are used to, can’t wait to try it. Got trebles and some sure sets as well if fail to hook up. Make my own little school of bait fish know what I’m sayin! How sweet to pull up 2 eyes at once, I’d poo myself!!
Isnt the definition of a “rig” 2-3 hooks within 9″ (just making sure I read that right)? So your three hooks would have to be 3″ apart each? Be curious to see how it works. I see a lost fish in your future when the top treble catches the bottom of the hole on the way up. Did it many times with a single #10 hook a few years ago, treble is 3 times as likely to catch the ice.
AW, I see your point. Darn, now you got me thinking, shows you how much experience I got on the ice. No matter, worth a shot if nothing else is working.
Doesn’t matter where the hooks are, just all have to be within 9″ from 1st to last
Everything is worth a shot. Let us know how it works.
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