Last minute tips for first time ice fishing

[doz2]

Give us some idea of what you already have that you're planning to use. It's nearly impossible to find anything ice-related at the stores now. You can do well with small jigs. Tungsten would be best but good old lead works fine. For bait you should take as many of these as you can so you'll have what they might be in the the mood for that day: waxworms, mealworms, earthworms, PowerBait, and cutbait like chub, sucker, shiners, minnows, etc. I don't know anything specific about Panguitch but I assume you'll be after trout. Get a variety of colors including green, pink, orange, and white. If you want to go basic there's nothing wrong with a baitholder hook with an earthworm and a split shot and bobber. You can make a loop in your line and put the bobber on it. When you reel in it will pop off and you can land the fish without worrying about it.

Don't have much.  I don't do a lot of trout fishing other than the local pond.  Have weights, hooks, powerbait, and panther martins.  Found some jig-heads and going to pick up a few more and grab night crawlers and mealworms tomorrow before I head out.

And yes, stores are cleaned out of stuff.  We couldn't even find thermals for the fiance locally (had to order them online).  All the winter stuff is being cleared out already down here.