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Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:13 pm
by (MT)Montanafowler
Jehler, how do you do it? i want to get one of those tip up things and try it this winter. i'm planning on fishing for pike. what do i need and what do i do?

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:29 pm
by Bulldog0156
Jehler shows up with the crown and lets Jr. do all the work!

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:29 pm
by Goldfish
iceman jehler wrote:Ice auger, tip up, a red and white Daredevil, a sucker (the minnow, but you too for wanting to do this), beer, and warm clothes.

If you've got the time to make, or the money to buy, a fish house makes it about 10x more comfortable.

Find the deep edge of shallow weed lines, or if the water is really clear so the weed line is 15ft or more the shallow edge, inside corner in bays, if there is a river that comes into the lake and the ice is thick enough hang over the top edge of the channel a little.


That's what I do at least.

sent from a phancy fone

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:48 pm
by jehler
Bulldog0156 wrote:Jehler shows up with the crown and lets Jr. do all the work!
exactly how it's done!

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:49 pm
by jehler
Goldfish wrote:Ice auger, tip up, a red and white Daredevil, a sucker (the minnow, but you too for wanting to do this), beer, and warm clothes.

If you've got the time to make, or the money to buy, a fish house makes it about 10x more comfortable.

Find the deep edge of shallow weed lines, or if the water is really clear so the weed line is 15ft or more the shallow edge, inside corner in bays, if there is a river that comes into the lake and the ice is thick enough hang over the top edge of the channel a little.

That's what I do at least.

sent from a phancy fone
shut up Goldie, I'm the damn expert up in here!

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:52 pm
by Goldfish
Better?

sent from a phancy fone

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:53 pm
by jehler
Yeah, thanks

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:54 pm
by Olly
Ice fishing? What's that?

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:54 pm
by (MT)Montanafowler
Bulldog0156 wrote:Jehler shows up with the crown and lets Jr. do all the work!


you ever gonna be back in Helena this winter?

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:59 pm
by jehler
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:01 pm
by (MT)Montanafowler
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:06 pm
by Feelin' Fowl
Goldfish wrote:Better?

sent from a phancy fone


:lol:

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:09 pm
by AKPirate
Drive an Assa van out onto the ice and saw through the floor.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:09 pm
by jehler
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?
home built, portable probably the shappel? Idk know for sure, all the Eskimo stuff is pretty cheap

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:11 pm
by (MT)Montanafowler
jehler wrote:
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?
home built, portable probably the shappel? Idk know for sure, all the Eskimo stuff is pretty cheap


links? i don't want to drop a ton of cash, but i don't want to free nuts in a wind/snow blizzard. i'm willing to tie a rope to the thing to take it on the lake, since i won't drive my truck on the ice.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:12 pm
by Olly
If I ever moved back to da UP. I would get a portable, the shack was nice and comfortable but it was to much of a bitch to deal with.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:15 pm
by jehler
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?
home built, portable probably the shappel? Idk know for sure, all the Eskimo stuff is pretty cheap


links? i don't want to drop a ton of cash, but i don't want to free nuts in a wind/snow blizzard. i'm willing to tie a rope to the thing to take it on the lake, since i won't drive my truck on the ice.
if your not ready to drop coin don't even bother, it's fucked like duck hunting, just get your self an ice armour or frabil suit and find a buddy with a shack and equipment

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:15 pm
by jehler
Quad, gas auger, shack, tip ups, rods, flashers....

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:16 pm
by jehler
Start pricing tungsten jigs!

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:18 pm
by (MT)Montanafowler
jehler wrote:Quad, gas auger, shack, tip ups, rods, flashers....


feet, hand auger, shack, tip up, coffee, beer.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:22 pm
by Olly
:lol: he said hand auger.






Tell us how long you stick with that.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:24 pm
by Bulldog0156
Olly wrote::lol: he said hand auger.






Tell us how long you stick with that.

:lol: No shit!

I fully expect I will need an extension for the first time in my life this winter. Was always damn close in da UP but could always break through about the time the powerhead was touching the ice.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:26 pm
by Bulldog0156
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
Bulldog0156 wrote:Jehler shows up with the crown and lets Jr. do all the work!


you ever gonna be back in Helena this winter?

Looks like it. We had a training session scheduled for 2 weeks from now get postponed. I am hearing maybe January for it. Definitely gonna bring the ice gear and slay the kokanee on the regulating reservoir if I get the chance. I am the fucking king of that place!

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:28 pm
by assateague
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?



Just go buy a $40 tent from Kmart and cut the floor out of that bitch. You'll have a nice big roomy fish house.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:30 pm
by Bulldog0156
assateague wrote:
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?



Just go buy a $40 tent from Kmart and cut the floor out of that bitch. You'll have a nice big roomy fish house.

Until the wind makes your tent its shower bitch

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:31 pm
by The Duck Hammer
assateague wrote:
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?



Just go buy a $40 tent from Kmart and cut the floor out of that bitch. You'll have a nice big roomy fish house.

:lol:

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:32 pm
by assateague
Bulldog0156 wrote:
assateague wrote:
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:
jehler wrote:
Olly wrote:Ice fishing? What's that?
you know, that stinky little shack you warm up in when riding the quad in the winter


john, what is the cheapest shack available?



Just go buy a $40 tent from Kmart and cut the floor out of that bitch. You'll have a nice big roomy fish house.

Until the wind makes your tent its shower bitch



So just anchor it however those $350 "ice fishing" tents that they sell are anchored. Can't be that hard.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:37 pm
by Olly
I've been ice fishing in a hunting pop up blind before. it was Ghetto but it worked.

MT Get you one of these and be done with it. It fold into a sled that you pull behind you.

http://frabill.com/portable-ice-shelter ... /7022.html

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:39 pm
by 3legged_lab
Assa would use a bed sheet (from the goodwill), wire coat hangers, a bungee cord and some duct tape if he were to go... but he won't go because its cold out there.

Re: Ice Fishing

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:41 pm
by assateague
I've been ice fishing, but it was in some small house that was towed out on the lake by a tractor in the winter, and pulled back off in the spring where it served as a summer cottage. Fucker had a loft and a full kitchen in it. Ridiculous. Other than that, it was just driving around on the lakes, waiting to fall through and die. Eff that noise.