I've had better luck with a rod and a fish finder (flasher) than with tip-ups although I remember fishing Wyoming with 6 lines per man.
5 tip-ups with minnows and a rod and flasher, The ice looked like a mine field of drilled holes when there were 3-4 guys in the same area.

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen