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Offline mono_mono

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Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« on: Mar 09, 2017, 08:23 AM »
Mine would be jigging raps - Boy, those things really do it! Portable Buddy heater comes in at #2
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #1 on: Mar 09, 2017, 08:51 AM »
Ion rechargeable lithium battery auger, withreverse.   And, scented waxworms/spikes. I noticed that when I open the lid initially, they smell strongly of pine shavings. I remove the shavings and replace it with dried oatmeal flakes that have been sprinkled with scent (krill/anise works great). My perch catch improved greatly

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #2 on: Mar 09, 2017, 09:04 AM »
When icefishing with a 4 year old bring:
1.) lots of candy, cookies, and snacks
2.) let them bring some toys of their choice to play with when they get bored fishing
3.) bring a small blanket and pillow so they can curl up in the jetslet and take a nap. (She loved doing that)
4.) take lots and lots of pictures. She loved seeing herself with her fish, setting up and taking down tip ups, helping to set up the hub shelter, etc.
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #3 on: Mar 09, 2017, 09:40 AM »
Frozen, cooked shrimp is good for trout bait.
Anker power pack to recharge my camera on multi-day trip works wonderfully.
Watched my buddy pull some monster trout out of 1 FOW.
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #4 on: Mar 09, 2017, 10:47 AM »
Using a fish finder!!!!! Holy cow my catch rate went up about 10 fold. If I didn't see fish I new I had to move. I wasn't just blindly fishing.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #5 on: Mar 09, 2017, 10:56 AM »
Going to a cordless drill w/ adaptor shaft for my 8" auger.  Never hand drill again! 
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #6 on: Mar 09, 2017, 11:02 AM »
When icefishing with a 4 year old bring:
1.) lots of candy, cookies, and snacks
2.) let them bring some toys of their choice to play with when they get bored fishing
3.) bring a small blanket and pillow so they can curl up in the jetslet and take a nap. (She loved doing that)
4.) take lots and lots of pictures. She loved seeing herself with her fish, setting up and taking down tip ups, helping to set up the hub shelter, etc.

A few other things I learned to take from when my older boys were at that age...
Extra pair of boots
Extra pair of socks
Extra pair of gloves

Have a 3 yr old now,... took those every time, never needed them once, but when the older 2 were 3 & 4 couldn't go a 1/2 hour before a boot or a gloved hand went in a hole!
Evolution I guess!!

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #7 on: Mar 09, 2017, 11:10 AM »
fishing sucks when you don't catch fish...and the weather bites the big one....and you forget something only AFTER you have hit the ice.


Oh, wait, then again, I could be stuck home with a "honey-do" list and lots of coughing and sneezing people looking to get me to join their "tissue-tearing" party...I'd rather be fishing!!!


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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #8 on: Mar 09, 2017, 11:38 AM »
Like the weather, nothing is for certain. Fish one way one day and do well, fish the same way another day and catch nada. Best to mix it up a lot until you find what works.  ::)
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #9 on: Mar 09, 2017, 11:56 AM »
Milwaukee power source...

Converts my 18v drill batteries to 12v and 5v USB...

Runs everything, lights, radio, fan, phone charger, vex...

Way lighter than 12V SLA batteries..

Always looking to lighten the sled up some more...

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #10 on: Mar 09, 2017, 12:12 PM »
Mine would be the ION X auger. Aside from the ice up issue (that they quickly resolved for me), it works better then I expected. The second thing would be swapping out  the small treble hook on the 1/16oz slender spoon for a shrimpo jig/plastic from CJ&S. This improved the number of fish caught and also reduced the amount of time it took to get a fish unhooked

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #11 on: Mar 09, 2017, 12:31 PM »
Milwaukee drill on a Clam Plate
Pop up shelter
Mr Buddy heater

We were fishing in the dark ages!

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #12 on: Mar 09, 2017, 05:00 PM »
1.Flasher- it almost seems like cheating now.
2. Clam plate mounted on my drill- we had a good year with thick ice so it made life real easy.
3. Better quality sensitive rods- made detecting the lite Kokanee bites easier.
4. A couple new lakes- got out and tried some new lakes and was rewarded.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #13 on: Mar 09, 2017, 06:19 PM »
My wood lathe!
Gave me something to do while I wasn't ice fishing. 2nd worst season ever for good ice in my area.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #14 on: Mar 09, 2017, 08:27 PM »
The comfort of striker ice bibs!  See you later old carharts(with love).
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #15 on: Mar 09, 2017, 08:43 PM »
Marcum camera.  I can't believe I went this long without one. 
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #16 on: Mar 10, 2017, 06:42 PM »
Milwaukee power source...

Converts my 18v drill batteries to 12v and 5v USB...

Runs everything, lights, radio, fan, phone charger, vex...

Way lighter than 12V SLA batteries..

Always looking to lighten the sled up some more...

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Thanks for sharing, I have to get one of those.
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #17 on: Mar 10, 2017, 08:01 PM »
My marcum lx 5 broke down and I had to go back to fishing blind.  It is a lot harder.  Hayden lake froze over for the first time since 20 years ago.  Never give up trying to ice fish even if the bite is slow.  Used color coded line after not using it for 4 years. 

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #18 on: Mar 10, 2017, 08:02 PM »
Finding fishable ice two weeks in a row before it warmed up...

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #19 on: Mar 10, 2017, 08:09 PM »
Best new discovery... I'd have to say replacing my auger blades on the lazer. It's like a whole new machine. Don't wait forever to replace that first set of blades folks! If you can't remember the last time you drilled a hole without having to push a little, replace them!

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #20 on: Mar 11, 2017, 06:43 AM »
IceShanty!

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #21 on: Mar 11, 2017, 06:50 AM »
How to dance a jigging rap right on the bottom for whitefish. A lift more than 3 inches wouldn't get bit.
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #22 on: Mar 11, 2017, 10:07 AM »
My marcum lx 5 broke down and I had to go back to fishing blind.  It is a lot harder.  Hayden lake froze over for the first time since 20 years ago.  Never give up trying to ice fish even if the bite is slow.  Used color coded line after not using it for 4 years.


throw it in the garbage and hit up Vexilar

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #23 on: Mar 11, 2017, 10:15 AM »

throw it in the garbage and hit up Vexilar

I second the motion.
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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #24 on: Mar 11, 2017, 08:19 PM »
My Marcum LX7 love it
Glow cup n my glow jigs watched fish come up after the jig from 15 feet couldn't get there fast enough

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #25 on: Mar 11, 2017, 09:24 PM »
Milwaukee drill/Nils combo. Quick, easy, and light.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #26 on: Mar 12, 2017, 12:45 PM »
Burbot, and Hummingbird ICE units. Love them both.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #27 on: Mar 12, 2017, 06:41 PM »
It would have to be one of the "One shot skimmer pros" not sure how I lived without one.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #28 on: Mar 12, 2017, 07:01 PM »
It would have to be one of the "One shot skimmer pros" not sure how I lived without one.

http://www.deepfreezefishing.com/product/one-shot-skimmer-pro-edition/

They work good? I eyeballed that thing all winter...wished I just pulled the trigger on one.

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Re: Your Best New Discovery From This Past Season
« Reply #29 on: Mar 12, 2017, 07:16 PM »
They work good? I eyeballed that thing all winter...wished I just pulled the trigger on one.

I got one from Junior for Christmas. It worked very well, as advertised. One handed operation and a 98% clean hole with 2 - 3 dips. And really doesn't take up additional space. It works.....
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