Regulation Changes

[wiperhunter2]

4 poles sounds good to me!  More opportunity to try different depths, jigs, bait, etc.

That's how I look at as well and if you have a string of ice rods you can find the location of the fish faster. Once you find them then you could use just two or one if you like. We have all seen it before, you are fishing one location, then someone comes in a sets up just twenty yards away and starts catching them and you think, if I had just set up in that location or had my rods spread out more. As others have said, if the location you pick is a good one, then just having two poles is all we can handle but how often does that happen