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Offline jordy1380

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Ice Hacks!
« on: Dec 01, 2013, 02:50 AM »
Does anyone have any 'ice hacks'? By this I mean using something that you have in everyday life to make something easier while ice fishing! An example of this might be putting a flashlight under a clear water bottle to make a lantern or putting a glow stick in a water bottle then dropping it down a hole for an underwater light. Things similar to that...anyone think of anything to make life on ice easier??
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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #1 on: Dec 01, 2013, 08:54 AM »
blue tooth speaker on ice with an android feeding it tunes, vibration calls in the fish

a friend of the family who goes with us once and a while does not have a lantern and brings a one gallon milk jug full of water and straps his head light to it with the lens facing/touching the side of the jug of water and makes an ambient light, like a lantern but small scale. he does this after he is set up to fish. puts the light back on his head when done and going back to his truck.
i felt bad for him, but liked his ingenuity and he seemed happy enough.

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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #2 on: Dec 01, 2013, 11:54 AM »
No but I like the ones you just shared

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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #3 on: Dec 01, 2013, 04:33 PM »
Does anyone have any 'ice hacks'? By this I mean using something that you have in everyday life to make something easier while ice fishing! An example of this might be putting a flashlight under a clear water bottle to make a lantern or putting a glow stick in a water bottle then dropping it down a hole for an underwater light. Things similar to that...anyone think of anything to make life on ice easier??

Here's a whole board of tips and tricks.

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?board=29.0
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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #4 on: Dec 01, 2013, 08:26 PM »
All very helpful! But not exactly what I was talking about...those are tips not hacks. Hacks are like taking normal everyday items and using them for something extremely helpful like these http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/camping-hacks-that-are-borderline-genius?s=mobile
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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #5 on: Dec 01, 2013, 09:51 PM »
Bought a cheap dollar store  vegetable spoon and use it as a sit down skimmer . I will also just plant it in the snow beside a tip up hole so i do not need to carry the skimmer over every time, it also adds a bit of visibility.   I made a cool device for sinking my tip up line faster but I would need pics to explain and I am thinking I need a patent

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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #6 on: Dec 01, 2013, 10:00 PM »
Jordy1380,   How about number three from you camping hacking link the Mountain Dew + baking soda + peroxide = lantern.  Take that glowing bottle of Dew tie a line around the neck so you can retrieve it and use it for an underwater fish attractor light.  Looks like it gives off a nice greenish glow might be worth a try. 

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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #7 on: Dec 01, 2013, 10:03 PM »
I attached the cable of my portable fish finder to a old wooden broom handle with baler twine and mad a cross section with another piece of broom handle making a "t" that will sit across my ice hole. The transducer sits straight and I can easily pull it out of the hole when I get a fish and drop it back down when I need it.
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Re: Ice Hacks!
« Reply #8 on: Dec 02, 2013, 07:37 AM »
I cut a hole 6" from the top of a 5-gallon bucket just large enough to hold the butt of an ice rod. Then I cut a groove about 3" deep and 1" wide directly across from the hole and in the top of the bucket to hold the rod. Great for traveling light! Good Fishing!
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