I have used the following strategy with great results. After I have found a general area to fish, I like to set up a portable shelter as a home base and warming station. Next, I map out the area with my electronics. Using a graph and water bottle, wet the ice and use the transducer to shoot through the ice to get a depth reading. Write the depth reading in the snow, find the outside deep shelf and move up into the shallow flats, weeds, rocks or whatever the structure may be.
Next step is to drill holes, a lot of holes.
I start with five to ten, take a break, set a tip-up and drill another five to ten. Now you can effectively work a large area with both a tip-up and jigging rod. Too many people put down a minnow a couple of feet from the bottom and leave it there all day. You need to move the tip-up to another hole if nothing hits after an hour. If you have 25 or 30 holes, use them.