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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #210 on: Feb 06, 2018, 10:11 PM »
I got an ice fishing kit for my lowrance depth finder that I use in my boat. Nice to have a flasher.

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #211 on: Feb 09, 2018, 10:58 AM »
Muck boots on a Clearance table for $40.00 .
Eskimo Quickfish 5 i . $299.00
Shappell jet sled. $50.00
Stricker coat on Clearance $70.00
Garmin Stricker 4 on sale $99.00

Time fishing on the ice with my preteen daughter ? PRICELESS ! ! !

Offline Live4fishing

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #212 on: Mar 06, 2018, 07:46 AM »
Bought the striker fishing jacket! I may not have a fish finder yet but at least while I hunt them down I can stay warmer now! Someday I'll get a wheeler and be able to get out further and faster on ice

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #213 on: Mar 06, 2018, 08:05 AM »
Marcum cradle

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #214 on: Mar 06, 2018, 09:21 AM »
garmin striker 4 kit. was a gift.

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #215 on: Mar 06, 2018, 10:10 AM »
Where to start?

For the last 10 years I've been sitting on plastic buckets in a 4 man ice cube tent with a 3000btu propane heater that was difficult to light, fishing blind in 6" holes drilled by hand (or with a cordless drill if I had one that worked at the time), and once a year we'd set up the wall tent and spend a weekend on the ice which always turned into a complete gong show.

This year I went all out and built a hard sided shack complete with a wood stove, 12v battery/solar panel, murphy bed and folding table - my wife and I have spent 5 weekends out there so far this year. We also upgraded to a 10" eskimo P1 auger and bought some electronics - a Garmin Striker 5 to use as a flasher (and to upgrade the finder in the boat) and an underwater camera, so now I know that there are fish down there even if they're not biting.

I should have done this years ago...
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #216 on: Mar 06, 2018, 12:57 PM »

Trans Alaskan boots  , comfy and warm , had a nice score on 3 president reels
 

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #217 on: Mar 12, 2018, 01:42 PM »
Well.. I started fishing in September so this was my first year on the ice.. kinda fell in love with it and went overboard.

Best purchases? Rods, used 3 man hub, heater, tung jigs, HT auto fisherman, vex (just bought, haven't used yet but Im super excited to have my own) 


worst- BPS Auger, broke my second time using it
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Offline fishinnut

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #218 on: Dec 15, 2018, 07:13 AM »
Striker Climate jacket from Reed's Sports in Walker, Mn. for $195.
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #219 on: Dec 17, 2018, 11:48 AM »
Helix ice 5 g2/ gps combo. $400.40.
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #220 on: Dec 17, 2018, 10:14 PM »
Bought an Eyoyo camera not sure how good it is yet, just got it and haven't been out yet.

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #221 on: Dec 19, 2018, 09:34 PM »
Broke down and bought a clam plate for early ice and shallow areas.
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #222 on: Dec 29, 2018, 11:10 PM »
Bought an Eyoyo camera not sure how good it is yet, just got it and haven't been out yet.

Got out today to try the new camera, made a couple changes to the unit. I spooled the camera cable on a larger spool (flyline spool) which eliminated a lot of the "coiling" of the cable. Put an elastic/tape with some "slack" on the cable/camera to keep horizontal and eliminate any direct pull on the camera cable-camera connection.  Also made a temporary bar/clamp to hold the camera at correct depth and direction, I believe I will be getting a remote for it but the "quick fix" for today worked great. This particular unit only comes with about 50' of cable so you wont be fishing lakers with it, but it will work well for what I am going to be fishing with it. It comes as a great compact unit, but with the few changes I made I put it all in another carry bag I had.

Overall I was pretty happy with the unit. We were fishing a fairly sharp drop off a weed edge we located with the camera. This unit does not come with recording ability so my  phone camera pics of the screen are not that great and don't really reflect the true clarity of the camera but clarity out to about 6' today was good.  With larger lures/bait in this lake I am sure you could have easily seen out to at least 8' or maybe 10'. The sky was fully overcast and this was in 18' of water with maybe 3" of snow. Picked up before xmas on sale for less than 150.00 Canadian of Amazon.


This was a small marmooska hook with a small piece of worm on it, camera was about 2' away. The silver line in the middle is a clamp that comes on the camera, I have now bent that down a bit to keep it off the screen.


This pic was of a small forage minnow with a piece of worm on it about 6' away. (just above a bit to the left of the (t's weeds)


Larger spool, bar/clamp for camera cable, camera with elastic


Closeup camera shot.


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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #223 on: Dec 31, 2018, 05:50 AM »
Hello there, just wondering if you misplaced these white plastic rings?
You can tag me for help if any questions to use it!

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #224 on: Dec 31, 2018, 07:21 AM »
Hello there, just wondering if you misplaced these white plastic rings?
You can tag me for help if any questions to use it!


Lol I just got the 9inch version. Used it yesterday, water clarity was crap but the camera works as advertised.

I used fishing snaps to run my wire through.

I'll do a full review once i use it some more.

Screen is nice. Setup is easy, might add some weight to front to hold up screen, if you remove battery pack, it makes it top heavy and it falls back.

Recording my cam is a really nice option. Last night I popped the sd card into my phone, copied vids and was watching them through VLC. It's the only app that would allow me to view.
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #225 on: Jan 01, 2019, 12:09 AM »
Hello there, just wondering if you misplaced these white plastic rings?
You can tag me for help if any questions to use it!


No, I saw them thanks, just don't want any pull on the cable to camera connection. Like I mentioned none of the mods I did were really necessary, the unit is pretty much good to go out of the box, I had a camera years ago and made similar mods to it.   

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #226 on: Jan 03, 2019, 10:04 PM »
Ok, and glad to hear that you like it!
And please tag me for help if any questions to use it!
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #227 on: Jan 03, 2019, 10:07 PM »
Lol I just got the 9inch version. Used it yesterday, water clarity was crap but the camera works as advertised.

I used fishing snaps to run my wire through.

I'll do a full review once i use it some more.

Screen is nice. Setup is easy, might add some weight to front to hold up screen, if you remove battery pack, it makes it top heavy and it falls back.

Recording my cam is a really nice option. Last night I popped the sd card into my phone, copied vids and was watching them through VLC. It's the only app that would allow me to view.
Haha, glad to hear that you like it too! Thanks for your suggestions, and yes, a full review will be really appreciated :)
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #228 on: Jan 24, 2019, 09:57 PM »
My favorite purchase this year is the Piscifun ICX5 ice reel. The thing is a work horse!


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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #229 on: Jan 27, 2019, 09:14 AM »
Marcum LX9

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #230 on: Jan 29, 2019, 04:47 PM »
I purchased a aqu vu camera for my permanent hut , wired it into the 24" TV. Not sure how im going to fish with out it.



















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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #231 on: Nov 07, 2019, 12:57 AM »
Last Season's closeout/clearance

Eskimo Quad Chair  It's gonna get some nice use this coming season
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #232 on: Nov 07, 2019, 04:54 AM »
Just purchased the 9" garmin panoptix bundle last week.  Unfortunately dont have it in my posession yet, back order.  Gonna be a game changer for sure!!! :tipup:

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #233 on: Nov 07, 2019, 05:01 AM »
2...hand held gps for marking holes and can of graphite spray for auger and skis of Smitty Sled to keep ice off.
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #234 on: Nov 11, 2019, 07:59 PM »
Even though I bought it this past spring it's gonna be the Clam Thermal Scout XL. Just put it together today   :woot:

Won't be long till I'm sittin' in it  ;D
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #235 on: Nov 11, 2019, 08:04 PM »
Even though I bought it this past spring it's gonna be the Clam Thermal Scout XL. Just put it together today   :woot:

Won't be long till I'm sittin' in it  ;D
is it nice?i havent put mine together yet.still sitting in the box.

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #236 on: Nov 11, 2019, 08:08 PM »
Fair warning Doc: Significant assembly required. BYOB (batteries)   ;)2
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #237 on: Nov 11, 2019, 08:14 PM »
Fair warning Doc: Significant assembly required. BYOB (batteries)   ;)2
ive been dreading putting it together.mostly the runners .i bought heavy duty x series that are not going to want to bend up the front.how long it take to assemble?

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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #238 on: Nov 11, 2019, 10:13 PM »
Dr.Speckler , as far as your runners if you predetermine location of front of runner above bend
 drill your top hole on runner and sled ,then soak top of runner where will need help bending
 in very HOT water for a bit or use a heat gun . When very warn should bend much easier and then attach
front of runner in your predrilled location and bend while hot so you can continue attaching runners to the flat bottom
 good luck and hope this helps
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Re: Best purchase this season
« Reply #239 on: Nov 12, 2019, 04:40 AM »
Dr.Speckler , as far as your runners if you predetermine location of front of runner above bend
 drill your top hole on runner and sled ,then soak top of runner where will need help bending
 in very HOT water for a bit or use a heat gun . When very warn should bend much easier and then attach
front of runner in your predrilled location and bend while hot so you can continue attaching runners to the flat bottom
 good luck and hope this helps

X2..also drill the screw holes a tad smaller this will hold the screws in place as you put on the nuts ..and of course put on the hyfax first before any other assembly.
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