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December 5th, 2014, 07:43 PM
#21
For the love of anything, let's put this to rest. LOL. You can buy this material for dirt cheap at any Home Depot or Rona or Lowes and cut your own.
http://www.fishusa.com/Product/HT-En...pUp-Hole-Cover
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December 5th, 2014 07:43 PM
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December 5th, 2014, 10:43 PM
#22
Just keep pulling fish out.
Learn all you can about nature. What we don't understand, we fear and what we fear, we destroy.
Teach a young person to hunt and fish, after all, someone taught you.
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December 6th, 2014, 11:44 AM
#23
Has too much time on their hands
I know this doesn't really pertain to a tip up setup but I was told of a tip (haven't tried yet) that apparently works in an open hole.
Painting a few ping pong balls black and putting them in the hole on a sunny day keeps the hole from freezing over by attracting the heat of the sun.
Anyone try this???
FSHN 247
Jay
Four things I love to do.....Fish in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter!!!!
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December 6th, 2014, 01:53 PM
#24
Never tried it but doubt the effectiveness. Don't know about your icefishing but mine is done often a temp considerably color than freezing, with (often) wind, on overcast days. I can't see ping pong balls or test tube stoppers having that much solar gain. Just sayin'
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December 6th, 2014, 02:07 PM
#25
Ive been out of the hardwater game for the past two winters now. I did use the pro thermal tip ups and found they worked ok so long as you dried them out after each use. Pro thermals tossed in the fish hut overnight were a frozen mess the next day. As far as the conventional method with a hole, line and switch......Is it really that hard to walk over every now and then and skim the ice off the hole? As outdoorsmen are we really getting so lazy as to dump a chemical down the hole as opposed to doing things the way they have been done for 100 years?
How is it one careless cigarette can cause a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to light a campfire?
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December 6th, 2014, 05:48 PM
#26
I'm with Habs and Oaky on this ....
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December 7th, 2014, 08:44 AM
#27
You hit the nail on the head. I like the convenience of having my stuff neatly organized but I don't mind putting work in. I'll walk 5 miles or more in the course of a day on a small bay trying to stay on the fish. I usually don't even have a tip up in but if I do, There's nothing to stepping on a hole and scooping it out.
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December 8th, 2014, 10:06 AM
#28
I use the quiver magnet mentioned earlier and it works great. The company actually used the sell the exact same thing but packaged as the "ice quiver"
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December 8th, 2014, 04:43 PM
#29
They still do. I saw them at Walmart last year.
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