Light line pike fishing

Hi Folks, Guided on the hard water yesterday for northern pike and yellow perch.  A good solid 14" of ice and we drove my truck on the ice.  Nice winter day with air temperatures hovering just above zero and a slight wind from the south.  We had my heated portable shanty yesterday and it was pretty comfortable inside.   We fished on dead weed beds in 10' to 12' of water. We set 15 tip-ups with large dead suckers and smelt.  We did not have one flag.  The folks fishing next to us did catch two small pike on tip-ups and they were using live bait.  All of our action came with the jig sticks.  We chummed our holes with fat head minnows and chunks of yellow perch.  It brought in the pike.  We missed a couple of fish, lost a good pike at the hole, and landed a solid 24" northern on 2lb test.  We were using light jig sticks spooled with light line and fire tiger Hali jigs.  Really exciting.  Another group of folks fishing did catch a large smallmouth bass.  Lots of action yesterday jigging and especially with little perch.  We caught a few decent perch but to avoid the small ones we had to resort to tipping our jigs with minnows and not maggots.  Fun morning.  Remember to not move water around and spread non-native species.  Have Fun, Willy