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Re: Windlass tip-up freezing

Author Subject: Re: Windlass tip-up freezing

Chris Posted At 15:00:43 01/31/2002

Tom Grunewald has published a few books on ice fishing.
In at least two of his books he profiles the Windlass. His solution to your problem is to take a piece of plastic pipe/tubing and run it through a piece of wood so that 1/2 is protruding from either side of the piece of wood. Let the wood float in the hole and run your line through the plastic tubing. Supposedly this prevents freezeups. The windbreak trick JP describes helps too.