Jigging vs Live bait

I am relatively new to Ice fishing and was wonder how effective is jigging compared to using live bait. I've only ice fished once before and I caught all my fish on minnows. I tried jigging but didn't catch anything. Any feedback will be helpful.

Live bait works great for dead sticking .as for jiging i use just the minnow head works well ..or a twister tail ..

Use of electronics are extremely helpful. Most people do not trust what they are seeing on there units. A good fish finder goes along ways with jigging. It also let you know if there is anything there worth staying for. The days of fishing blind is obsolete these days. Jigging and minnows will both work well if there used and applied correctly. But if there is no fish around they both will be useless
Xbend

Thank you Fishchaser and Xbend for your replies. Much appreciated. Being new to the sport I don't have an ice flasher... but it is on my list of things to get. This year I will rely on the ice hut operator to put me onto a good spot where there are fish.

When using a minnow with a tip-up make sure the minnow is alive. If you hook the minnow too deeply into the backbone it will die and not be as effective. The minnow needs to be lively in order to trigger a bite when the fish are in a negative feeding mode.

Well put buddy!! Very important for minnows to be lively as possible!! I normally have three holes side by side one jiggingwith a buckshot tipped with a minnow head that I ripped of not cut with a knife the middle hole has my flasher and the other hole has a dead stick with a lively minnow which if it stops swimming I a)jerk once in a while replace with a fresh lively one. There is no better then the other I found sometimes I'm hammering them on minnows only and at other times I'm slaying them jigging I always use both methods and never had a day empty handed in the great nip!!!

Well put buddy!! Very important for minnows to be lively as possible!! I normally have three holes side by side one jiggingwith a buckshot tipped with a minnow head that I ripped of not cut with a knife the middle hole has my flasher and the other hole has a dead stick with a lively minnow which if it stops swimming I a)jerk once in a while replace with a fresh lively one. There is no better then the other I found sometimes I'm hammering them on minnows only and at other times I'm slaying them jigging I always use both methods and never had a day empty handed in the great nip!!!

Thank you buddy for your advice. And thank you Dan for your comments as well. This is the sort of information I was looking for. As I said in my original post, I didn't have any luck jigging for fish. This year, hoping the heavens will hear the loud for ice by the Nipissing fishermen, I will try jigging again. But I will do it beside a hole with a live minnow bait. I am sure jigging must work, otherwise there wouldn't be so many jigging lures for sale in the stores. Once again, thanks for your input Buddy and Dan... this ice fishing novice appreciates it. I can barely wait to get on that hard water and try out a new reel and rod!!!