Plastics on ice

[DDSBYDAY]

    I have not even thought about this much before.  I know there are some that take their plastics to the ice.  I have read where plastics out fish live bait.  I just have never seen it.  I am going to make an attempt this winter to give it a try.  If I get on a hot panny bite I am going to throw on a crappie barf.  These are made from memory of the little critters crappies gack up when coming out of the hole.  They are about 300x bigger but the colors are as close as I could get.  I am going to scent them.  The nice thing about ice fishing is you can watch the vex to see if you can get them to bite.  If anyone has had success with plastics chime in.  I will give it a short try this winter if the conditions are right.     Might try them on a drop shot hooked wacky style.  Who knows, it might work. 

[lentz]

i mainly use them if i dont have minows and im trying to get the bigger cropies

iv had them work okay but would of always prefered live bait

[KNCantu]

I too have has some success when using plastics but I usually refer to livebait to start off and then if they seem to be very aggressive then I might switch to plastics so that i dont have to re-bait as often. I have also had more success with blugills using plastic then I have with crappies.
I will definetly use plastic more often this year to be more versatile and build that confidence with those. I have purchased a good variety already this year that are ready to be eaten!
Good luck!