11-30-2005, 10:08 AM
My neighbor is 70+ and he cant wait to get out on the ice....
I am sitting here waiting for ice tieing up my crappie and perch snells for my minny rigs that I made this year. (experimental) the big comercial one look nice but I have a lot of problems with them under the ice... and thay keep getting tangled up in the bottom of my bucket...
half the fun of ice fishing is building stuff to try, even if it dont work... and when it dose... WooHoo!
I met a ice angler one frosty day, I showed him where to pull up cisco and he showed me how to recycle gitar sting in to rod bobbers... they work better than the store bought ones... I dont have a gitar but I do have a banjo with a few broken strings I was going to save for snairs.
I have another buddie who showed me how to see fish bites before the bobber shows a bite, he took a picture frame design and made one out of 1/8 inch pannel board and set it on the back side of his hole, and when the fish bite but not hard enough to move the bobber you can see the line straighten out. I came up with an idea that if you take a black plastic 5 gallon pail you can cut it in half and set it on the windy side of the hole to keep the snow from blowing in.. just take the ice shavings from drilling your hole to set inside the of the sawn buckets to keep it from blowing away... and you still get the black picture frame line advantage...
the real kick is going out on the ice and seeing all the inventions that other anglers have come up with. I ran in to an angler on lake st clare who invented a three inch telocopic ice rod. worked great for shallow perch fishing. (under 10 feet) he pulled up perch as fast if not faster than any one else on the lake....
so what are you going to do come the end of january when cabin fever sets in? You can only play thumb hocky for so long...
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I am sitting here waiting for ice tieing up my crappie and perch snells for my minny rigs that I made this year. (experimental) the big comercial one look nice but I have a lot of problems with them under the ice... and thay keep getting tangled up in the bottom of my bucket...
half the fun of ice fishing is building stuff to try, even if it dont work... and when it dose... WooHoo!
I met a ice angler one frosty day, I showed him where to pull up cisco and he showed me how to recycle gitar sting in to rod bobbers... they work better than the store bought ones... I dont have a gitar but I do have a banjo with a few broken strings I was going to save for snairs.
I have another buddie who showed me how to see fish bites before the bobber shows a bite, he took a picture frame design and made one out of 1/8 inch pannel board and set it on the back side of his hole, and when the fish bite but not hard enough to move the bobber you can see the line straighten out. I came up with an idea that if you take a black plastic 5 gallon pail you can cut it in half and set it on the windy side of the hole to keep the snow from blowing in.. just take the ice shavings from drilling your hole to set inside the of the sawn buckets to keep it from blowing away... and you still get the black picture frame line advantage...
the real kick is going out on the ice and seeing all the inventions that other anglers have come up with. I ran in to an angler on lake st clare who invented a three inch telocopic ice rod. worked great for shallow perch fishing. (under 10 feet) he pulled up perch as fast if not faster than any one else on the lake....
so what are you going to do come the end of january when cabin fever sets in? You can only play thumb hocky for so long...
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