Ice Fishing Tip of the Day

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Convertable Ice fishing rod....

If you have a two peice summer fishing rod, the rest is easy and simple as cutting a peice of dowl to lenth, drilling a hole in the end and rappin a peice of tape.

the rest is just window dressing....

for a handle, you can use almost any dowl stock, broom handle wood paint roller extention handle, cutting off the end of an old fishing rod handle, a dried limb from a tree...

here is a couple examples.

this first one is a convertable, [ul] [li]I grabbed the top peice from a standard two peice rod, cut a lenth of cheery limb that had been drying since last spring.. [/li] [li]stripped off the bark, [/li] [li]sanded it down [/li] [li]drilled a tight slip hole to put the rod peice in and can be taken back out. [/li] [li]I finished off the wood handle with melted bees wax to keep it from taking on any moisture, [/li] [li]I used duct tape to mount the reel [/li][/ul] [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/8662/size/big/cat/574"][/url][/center] [center]Red Hot Convertable[/center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/8662/cat/574"][/url]
(total cost, a couple pennies worth of duct tape)

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this second one is for Walleye.
[ul] [li]scrounging around though odds and ends I found a solid fiberglass rod, [/li] [li]found a bottom peice of another rod, "not matching" [/li] [li]I cut the rod off the handle [/li] [li]drilled out a hole in the handle to fit the fiberglass rod in. [/li] [li]I used foxy poxy to glue to perminantly mount the rod in place. [/li] [li]I cut and sanded parts of the handle off I deemed to be in my way...[/li][/ul] [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/8663/size/big/cat/574"][/url][/center] [center]Walleye[/center]
(total cost for this rig was a $2 for the glue)

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