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Offline 1moslab

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thickest ice drilled through
« on: Jan 01, 2014, 01:38 PM »
was watching on the news about that Russian ship stuck in the ice and saw they were drilling with a auger wife's comment was thought they had 10ft of ice cant drill that .was wondering what was the most you drilled through .living in pa I have to put this out to my northern ice fishing bro.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #1 on: Jan 01, 2014, 01:42 PM »
I think mine was around 34"-36" just last year.


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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #2 on: Jan 01, 2014, 01:43 PM »
My auger is 42". I drilled through ice until my motor was touching. So at least 40". That isn't just touching the slush it was touching the ice.
I know a guy who lives in Alaska and he says they use an extension in the spring time and drill through 50" then.
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #3 on: Jan 01, 2014, 01:45 PM »
how do you gaff a fish that deep?

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #4 on: Jan 01, 2014, 01:48 PM »

I bottomed out a model 30 jiffy a very long time ago , on Sandy Pond
 

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #5 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:01 PM »
This video is 6ft down.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #6 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:03 PM »
had to be over 40 inches 6 inch hand auger My buddie and me standing on opposite sides that day to drill holes together..  End up Kneeling..   That was years ago you don't see that much now 12 inches is thick in that same place now. Global warming ?

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #7 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:40 PM »
34-35" for me.  Yeah I lived in Alaska for few years I bought an 18" auger extension for my eskimo I still have the extension but I don't think I will use it again here in PA. 

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #8 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:44 PM »
The place I used to go as a kid with grandfather was up in NW Ontario. I had asked the old Native guide up there how thick the ice got in winter. He told me 50in was not uncommon.

I was on a bus and just happened to be sitting on a news paper. This guy came up and asked. "Are you reading that ?"
I said  yes, stood up, turned the page and sat back down.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #9 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:48 PM »
This video is 6ft down.




That's Kotzebue, I'm trying to plan a trip up there this April!


I've drilled 40" before, not cool at all, it's a giant pain in the rump  :(

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #10 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:50 PM »
18-20" here in northern lower
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #11 on: Jan 01, 2014, 03:10 PM »
I have drilled 30" on Houghton Lake in Mich.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #12 on: Jan 01, 2014, 03:36 PM »
4.5 feet and still did not get through the ice. Went to a different lake with thinner ice to fish.  ;D
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #13 on: Jan 01, 2014, 04:16 PM »
42" with a spoon auger and an extension back in the 70's, ONCE. Paid the guy with a homemade gas auger $1 per hole after that for Smelt on Gull and it got thicker that winter

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #14 on: Jan 01, 2014, 04:18 PM »
52" here in Manitoba.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #15 on: Jan 01, 2014, 08:36 PM »
About 20 inches three years ago up here in N. W. Montana. Had to be 50 trucks out on the lake "NOT ME". I get nervous with a ATV when the ice is under 10 inches. And a couple guys in a BMW doing about 50 mph, water shot up out of my fishing holes a least a foot!...   :wacko:

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #16 on: Jan 01, 2014, 09:25 PM »
About 64" here.
42" auger with 18" extension and still had to drill 2 shallow holes to get the powerhead down far enough to break through.   ;D

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #17 on: Jan 01, 2014, 09:58 PM »
About 14 inches and thats too thick!
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #18 on: Jan 01, 2014, 10:33 PM »
38 " ...bottomed out my uncles jiffy auger and had to use a spud bar for the last 2-3 inches..ive got a rapala auger now that has a bit longer auger havnt bottomed it out yet...had to chop all the frozen snow away from hole drill til handlebars were touching then chop out bottom of the hole..took awhile to cut 10 holes lol Most winters near the end its usually 24-30 inches most places
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #19 on: Jan 01, 2014, 10:39 PM »
I never ice fished any where other then Pennsylvania and the deepest I've drilled through here was 28 inches.  Man that was a GREAT year!   :tipup:

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #20 on: Jan 01, 2014, 11:23 PM »
20 inches.  Drilling 5 holes for tip ups and 5+ jigging with an 8 inch hand auger with dull blades was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #21 on: Jan 01, 2014, 11:51 PM »
Devils Lake North Dakota.  Four feet.
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #22 on: Jan 01, 2014, 11:51 PM »
We have drilled close to 50" I think.  It is hard to remember because I was a kid at the time.  I know the auger was pretty long and the motor still touched the ice.

Here is a video of some of the thicker stuff up north.

http://youtu.be/5WVzQ100qW4

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #23 on: Jan 02, 2014, 06:59 AM »
38 inches with a hand auger.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #24 on: Jan 02, 2014, 07:57 AM »
I've heard stories of people back in the mid 70's using extensions but I never have, I've just about bottomed out the Jiff at around 38" - 40".

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #25 on: Jan 02, 2014, 08:00 AM »
18"-24" here in central Mass. and that pond averages only about 8' deep throughout the whole place, but 8lb. bass, and 20+lb. pike reside there.  By the time the the hole is drilled you're fishing in 4ft. of millfoil filled water.
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #26 on: Jan 02, 2014, 08:05 AM »
Thickest I ever drilled was 16 inches by hand. Only have hand auger cause we don't get too thick of ice here in pa. Our on average is 8 inches or so I would say. Wish we had the ice like you guys do!


     
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #27 on: Jan 02, 2014, 08:37 AM »
I made a trip to Canada with an outdoor wriuter and acouple of guys from Drummond Island 20+ years ago. We rode sleds way back in norht of Thessolon.

On the second lake we fished we were pracically on our bellies turning our mor hand augers. The bend of the handles were rubbing in the hole when we broke through. Much thicker and we would have been riding 20 miles back to the cabin with out fishing. as it was we onluy caught a few dink lakers.

We fished another lake the next day, higher in the mountains, that only had 18 inches of ice on it.

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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #28 on: Jan 02, 2014, 01:29 PM »
How tall is an older Jiffy legend auger?

With how cold it's been in MN I won't be surprised if we are bottoming the auger out in Feb. Right now we're nearing 24", bout 10" more than normal by this time of year.
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Re: thickest ice drilled through
« Reply #29 on: Jan 02, 2014, 01:50 PM »
42" with a spoon auger and an extension back in the 70's, ONCE. Paid the guy with a homemade gas auger $1 per hole after that for Smelt on Gull and it got thicker that winter

Buck a hole would be a deal at that thickness and cost of gas. Heck with even trying to hand auger that. Wow and with a spoon auger. That would have been impressive to see.

 



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