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Unless you're dealing with 7-8 pound bass, you should be fine with a 6inch hole. Lazers are good augers, I have a 4 inch and 8 inch that I used before I got my Nils Master....
Do you think the Mass state record bass over 15 pounds that was caught ice fishing was taken out of a 6 inch hole??