11-25-2005, 06:21 AM
DKS and Bassrods,
I also purchased one of those tents (Eskimo Quickfish III) and took it out for its maiden voyage today. It sets up in about 20 seconds but I am a little concerned about the anchors. There was no wind when we started fishing but I tried to put 1 anchor in just in case. Well after trying for 2 minutes I quit. We had 4 inches of clear hard ice and it just didn't want to get started screwing in. So I just left it and went to fishing. I put the tent up for the kids and they really weren't using it. We got a little wind a little later (not very much) and the tent started sliding across the lake so I folded it up. Before I left I tried one more time with the anchors and got one to screw in by using a lot of downward pressure while screwing. Still not very easy to do and used a lot of energy and hand strength. So I'm not sure what to think about those anchors. They may work better in a few weeks when we have a packed snow/ice mix rather than 4 inches of ice skating rink....
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I also purchased one of those tents (Eskimo Quickfish III) and took it out for its maiden voyage today. It sets up in about 20 seconds but I am a little concerned about the anchors. There was no wind when we started fishing but I tried to put 1 anchor in just in case. Well after trying for 2 minutes I quit. We had 4 inches of clear hard ice and it just didn't want to get started screwing in. So I just left it and went to fishing. I put the tent up for the kids and they really weren't using it. We got a little wind a little later (not very much) and the tent started sliding across the lake so I folded it up. Before I left I tried one more time with the anchors and got one to screw in by using a lot of downward pressure while screwing. Still not very easy to do and used a lot of energy and hand strength. So I'm not sure what to think about those anchors. They may work better in a few weeks when we have a packed snow/ice mix rather than 4 inches of ice skating rink....
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