I just spent the past 5 days in the middle of nowhere Minnesota pre fishing then fishing the 2017 North American Ice Fishing Circuit National Championship. Day one sucked, I mean sucked. We had some of the best gills out of anyone (2.5lbs worth) but we were only able to find 3 out of our 8 crappies. Day two was a beat down. We had our 8 and 8 by 9am and kept upgrading throughout the day. Seeing we started in 48th place Sunday, I decided to go big or go home and used a Rapala