I was just wondering what i should look for when trying to catch crappies through the ice. Im in Nebrakska and just wondering how to catch them and where to look on a lake. Any tips you have will be apreccieated. Thanks!

look for crappies along the edges of deep holes. on 1st. ice they will be in the holes but near the breaks. most of the time they suspend up off the bottom. but some times you will find them very close to the bottom. depending on the lake, crappy are a nite biter, or should i say low lite, like early morning or evening.
minnows are the main bait but you can get them on wax warms and other jig tip baits. also remember they still will relate to weeds, sometimes they are on top of them, but most of the time they are on the outer edges.

I typically look for the deep basins or holes on a lake. Area's of about 20-30 feet when i'm targetting bottom. Area's of 40-50 feet for suspending crappies.

Also look for submerged brush and fish attractors, as stated they will generally hang lower on them towards the bottom. Go as light as you can get away with.

find weeds along holes like 6 to 12 ft deep and drill tons of holes if you want to catch anything (stay mobile)

thanks for the tips guys

Without a flasher, icing for crappies is a "crap-shoot", pun intended! Because crappie are known to suspend, you may be fishing bottom as the school swims by, or vice-versa when you're fishing suspended and they're on bottom. We iced for crappies for 3 days on Rain Lake, Ontario (morning was the best bite) and hooked them right on bottom and 6' off bottom, in 15-30 feet of water. We hooked what we saw on the graph because we knew which depth they were holding at. Without the Marcum flasher, we would have probably come up empty. Drill as many holes as possible and walk around the holes jigging high & low until a depth becomes apparent where they seem to be holding. It's a lot of work drilling and walking the holes...but it beats sitting and staring down a hole that isn't producing!

I've found while night ice fishing set your Coleman lantern on the ice, similar to how guys crappie fish on open water at night. Watch your flasher and they tend to come in around 6' under the ice. Works pretty good lots of crappie come in after a while.

We use tip downs around here for crappies. #12 treble with rosie reds and set your depth with your flasher after you have found them. If they are biting well we won't even jig just run back and forth to the tip downs.