Quinte Fishing

When do you get started on hard water walleye on the BOQ? When there is the first safe ice, or later? What is your initial plan of attack? I have been ice fishing on Quinte now for just two seasons and had a blast. I just usually haven't gotten around to it until near the end of the seasons. I have just been jigging spoons tipped with a minnow. Have you found any other methods productive?

Thanks,
Jeff