Love my Lx7 but the soft case that came with it kinda sucks as far as I’m concerned. I bought a used back pack that I use and it works really well.

What about a Humminbird helix 5 or 7 ice ? With these you get gps plus live mapping. If you have a boat you can use it in the summer with a different transducer. Given the choice lots of people prefer watching a graph over a flasher myself included. If I didn’t have a LX7 I’d be looking at one of these.

We’ve had some really good luck up there mid June . The fish seem to be scattered all over that time of year.I like to anchor and jig with lots of chumming.

Sure anything 8-12″should be good.

Hi my ion is 4yrs old now but when it was newer I checked to see how many holes I could get on a charge . The ice was about 40 inches and I got 17 holes . I haven’t tested like that since, meaning I usually only drill maybe 6 holes . I wonder if I you’re blades are a little dull ,that might be the problem.

Hi I fish there some . We had a 41″ fish stuck in my ion hole . I would bring a 10″ auger if you can . Probably be 40″ of ice by then so better have an extension. White tubes with either frozen minnow or smelt or stripe of sucker belly works well . We do lots of chumming with either sucker belly or minnows or smelt . The fish can be anywhere from 25 ft to 125 ft.lots of big fish caught on dead lines with some bigger bait such as whole ciscoes . Jigging for big lakers we don’t fish aggressively, sometimes less is more if you know what I mean. Hope this helps a and you get a few big ones. Anything over 65cm which is 25 or 26″ has to be released.

I like using the black screen. I think that even the glare off of the snow on a sunny day can be a problem so I will try to block that with my sled seems to help some.