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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: 1moslab on Jan 01, 2014, 01:38 PM
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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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I think mine was around 34"-36" just last year.
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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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how do you gaff a fish that deep?
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I bottomed out a model 30 jiffy a very long time ago , on Sandy Pond
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This video is 6ft down.
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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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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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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.
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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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18-20" here in northern lower
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I have drilled 30" on Houghton Lake in Mich.
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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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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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52" here in Manitoba.
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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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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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About 14 inches and thats too thick!
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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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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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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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Devils Lake North Dakota. Four feet.
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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 (http://youtu.be/5WVzQ100qW4)
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38 inches with a hand auger.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Last April was about as close to bottoming out my jiffy mod 30 as I have ever gotten, my knuckels were were just about touching the ice. Coincidentally the ice didn't go out on most of our lakes until May 12th. :o
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Last April was about as close to bottoming out my jiffy mod 30 as I have ever gotten, my knuckels were were just about touching the ice. Coincidentally the ice didn't go out on most of our lakes until May 12th. :o
That was a good problem to have in late April in Wisc. ;D
Just wish I could have gotten up north to fish tip ups on fishing opener. How many times can you finish and start the season with tip ups
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Last April was about as close to bottoming out my jiffy mod 30 as I have ever gotten, my knuckels were were just about touching the ice. Coincidentally the ice didn't go out on most of our lakes until May 12th. :o
that's amazing we are starting our gardens half the time by than
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Have bottomed a gas auger, last season had a trip with some "complications" and drilled thru 16" with a hand auger for 2 days
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I fished West Battle Lake in Western Minnesota and almost bottomed out my Strikemaster auger. I'm guessing around 40". Around SE Wisconsin, the most was probably 24-30".
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My hand auger has an extension so probably at least 40 inches that was in college in Sault Ste Marie, MI in the mid 90's. We would take turns drilling until you got tired then the next person would take .
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I remember we had to put the 18" extension on the jiffy once at Moosehead and we were still bottoming out the motor at that point. It was a high of -5 that day. We caught over 20 touge and a bunch of salmon.
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Drill over 50" many years, usually need to put the extension on the auger mid season or I will bottom out the power head in the shack
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Some where between 55-60'' Two guys on the auger and we drilled over 100 holes in a few days. Good work out for sure ;D
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26 inches with a spoon auger only four winters ago here in Nebraska. A sharp blade let me cut six holes before I crapped out. That was two more than the guy with the Lazer
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36 in. On lake of the woods last year. Had to wiggle our jiffy pro 4 to get the water to come up.
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30" last year
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a few years back there was over 3 ft in the main bay and at least 42 inches on sterling pond. i went with my buddy and his son with a new auger. the son drilled me 1 hole and i stayed put as long as i was there. decent bite as i remember. we went to the pond after the other guys left and used their holes!!!!!!!
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Some where between 55-60'' Two guys on the auger and we drilled over 100 holes in a few days. Good work out for sure ;D
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Wasilla? Isn't that where your former govenor is from? Does she even live there anymore?
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I can remember 32-34"
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Earlier someone posted a link to a 1967 clip of an Eskimo family jigging lakers. The guy spudded through 6' of ice with a non-metal spear type thing. Here's the link, the fishing begins about half way through (the first half is building an igloo).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3crt4JcYK4&feature=youtu.behttp:// (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3crt4JcYK4&feature=youtu.behttp://)
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over 30 inches in North Bay Ontario. probably thicker in some spots.was surprised that everybody was driving to the fishing spot in trucks or cars.
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Some where between 55-60'' Two guys on the auger and we drilled over 100 holes in a few days. Good work out for sure ;D
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Why is there a sunny side egg in the bottom of your hole?
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Why is there a sunny side egg in the bottom of your hole?
too funny!!!lol
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too funny!!!lol
x2 lol
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Deepest ive seen to date is mackay res in idaho one spring, 8 in hand auger put it to the bend and didnt get through. Got lucky there was a group with a gasser with an extensiont that hooked us up.
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Last year I fished a lake with 36 inches, we parked 4 truck/trailers side by side and camped on it.
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I cant even imagine that yesterday we were drilling through 12in and commenting on it :bow: :flex:
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I'll be putting the extension on the auger next week...we're at 28-30" of ice in eastern SD, with more in the northern part of the state. Most I've drilled through was a few years ago in MN, probably 37-40" of ice. you know you have some thick, strong ice when you see guys pushing snow on the lake with tractors.
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Where I go there is 22in. last week. two weeks before that it was 18 so I suspect that it will be at 24 to 25 this next week.