Author Topic: What do you call them?  (Read 1649 times)

Offline VTLakers

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What do you call them?
« on: Mar 14, 2021, 07:35 AM »
I grew up in Connecticut and everyone calls them tilts.
Went to college in Maine and everyone calls them traps.
Currently living in Vermont and everyone calls them tip ups.

Im just generally curious what you call your "tip ups"?

Offline Dipstick

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 14, 2021, 07:43 AM »
Nh boy here. We call them tackle, traps, tip ups... More importantly is when you call them flllllllaaaaaag!!!

Offline AQUAASSASSIN

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 14, 2021, 07:57 AM »
It’s traps or just stay home!  ;D This comes up each year, took longer than normal this season
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Offline Hess

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 14, 2021, 10:22 AM »
Grew up in upstate NY, with a camp on the VT shore of Lake Champlain -- always called them tip-ups (of course fishing on southern Champlain since the mid 60's, in those days we only used the old style wooden tip-up with the slide cross bar that actually did 'tip up' when a fish hit, and then we'd all yell tip uuppp and start running!)!!

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Offline 800stealth

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #5 on: Mar 15, 2021, 11:25 AM »
Same as when this question made the rounds last year... Traps
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Offline Ryan51993

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #6 on: Mar 18, 2021, 09:39 AM »
Here in mass I mostly hear traps/tip ups and only rarely do I hear them called tilts.

Offline fishermantim

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Re: What do you call them?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 18, 2021, 05:38 PM »
I'll have to start calling them "my fishing gizmos" to keep it simple.
That also includes my jigging rods.
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