Author Topic: 3rd line (Read 2267 times)

Kevin23 · « **on:** Dec 04, 2012, 05:24 PM »

So how many of you are planning on buying a 3rd line permit for next year? I'm going to get one so I can dead stick 2 bobbers and jig with the other during the spring when the walleyes are biting good. Not sure I'd use 3 rods through the ice.

CatskillsFisher · « **Reply #1 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 05:28 PM »

This past year in NY they passed law allowing a 3rd pole. I don't think I'll worry about it during ice fishing but man it's great while out on the boat..

Buckshots · « **Reply #2 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 05:34 PM »

3rd line permit? I haven't heard anything about this, details please? I wouldn't mind running extra tip ups.

Kevin23 · « **Reply #3 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 05:44 PM »

Its available for purchase for the 2013 season (effective jan 10 I think, or maybe 1st...), you can buy it dec 15th. Its $12 and allows a 3rd line.

Also new for this year:
3 year license (fishing and hunting)
1 year combo Fishing, Hunting, Habitat

esox_magnum · « **Reply #4 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 06:16 PM »

I'll use it, 2 lines and a tip up or 3 lines if alone, trolling eyes to will be fun with 3...

Buckshots · « **Reply #5 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 07:28 PM »

That's awesome. It's about dang time.

LunkerPlunker · « **Reply #6 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 08:10 PM »

So if you don't have the 3rd line license, you can only have 1 pole in the water and 1 tip-up? I thought tip-ups had their own regulations separate from pole regulations :s

esox_magnum · « **Reply #7 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 08:15 PM »

Only 2 lines no matter what they are, with this new add on you can run 3 of any combo...

Buckshots · « **Reply #8 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 08:20 PM »

As far as I know you can only have two lines in the water whether it be a tip up or a pole. They are treated the same.

PondPirate · « **Reply #9 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 08:23 PM »

Hadn't heard about it. I'm in! I'd also like to buy a license that makes my wife believe me when I say "One more cast" (open water) or "just about to pack-up" (hard water) on the cell phone.

CatskillsFisher · « **Reply #10 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 09:55 PM »

wow only 3 lines total for ice fishing including tip ups? NY is 5 tip ups and 3 hand lines... that's crazy lol

squ1rr31_ · « **Reply #11 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 09:58 PM »

I'll purchase it just to have!

esox_magnum · « **Reply #12 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 10:00 PM »

Quote from: CatskillsFisher on Dec 04, 2012, 09:55 PM

wow only 3 lines total for ice fishing including tip ups? NY is 5 tip ups and 3 hand lines... that's crazy lol

Not many use tip ups here, mostly jigging for pannies/perch and walleyes...few do use them for pike though, mine is 30 years old and bet has only been used 4-5 times...

Kevin23 · « **Reply #13 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 01:22 AM »

Quote from: CatskillsFisher on Dec 04, 2012, 09:55 PM

wow only 3 lines total for ice fishing including tip ups? NY is 5 tip ups and 3 hand lines... that's crazy lol

I'll bet you 95% of all ice fisherman in Iowa have never even seen a tip-up on the ice.

CatskillsFisher · « **Reply #14 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 05:14 AM »

Now that I have a flasher there's days when I won't bring tip ups and have a blast just jigging. In NY ,on some lakes you can't even see the ice because they're just covered with everyone's limit of tip ups.

anderson_dc · « **Reply #15 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 07:08 AM »

I will definitely purchase the extra line as it will allow me to run another tip up this winter. I've always enjoyed running a string of tip ups w/ some friends at the lake my parents live on. Walleye, bass, and pike are a blast on tip ups

hnd · « **Reply #16 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 08:32 AM »

is this going to cost us out of state guys more than 13? i dont' think i'll have much use for it but who knows.

IAEYE · « **Reply #17 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 09:22 AM »

I can't wait!!

harpenter · « **Reply #18 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 09:26 AM »

According to this it's $12 for Non Residents too

http://www.iowadnr.gov/portals/idnr/uploads/fish/regs_fish.pdf

CrappieBuster · « **Reply #19 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 04:31 PM »

Twelve dollars is kind of steep in my honest opinion. Will be nice to throw out a tipup while fishing with 2 rods in the shack though. Be fun for Catfishing also. Looks like my license just went up twelve dollars.

esox_magnum · « **Reply #20 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 06:23 PM »

Quote from: BBK on Dec 05, 2012, 01:22 AM

I'll bet you 95% of all ice fisherman in Iowa have never even seen a tip-up on the ice.

I would bet 95% own a tip up, everyone I know owns one even if they are like me and dont use it...

J. Rosonke · « **Reply #21 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 06:56 PM »

I know I will be buying it.

Makes tip ups a more worth while option on the "inland" waters. and it'll be nice for open water cat fishing.

Already have a pile of beaver dams for fishing the mississippi.

Something I hadn't thought about until now, I wonder how this changes the Iowa side boundary river rules, it's been 2 poles and 3 tip ups.

I wonder if a tip down type set up with out a flag is a pole or a tip up?

The regs book defines tip up as

Quote

A “tip-up fishing device” is an ice fishing mechanism with an
attached flag or signal to indicate fishing action, used to hold fishing
line and a hook.

Kevin23 · « **Reply #22 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 09:35 PM »

Quote from: esox_magnum on Dec 05, 2012, 06:23 PM

I would bet 95% own a tip up, everyone I know owns one even if they are like me and dont use it...

Not everybody lives on the IGL. Out east most people don't know what a tip-up is. Our lakes/ponds over here do not have pike or walleye so nobody uses them. A couple guys put them out for trout on the put-n-take lakes but its rare. I'm the only person I've ever seen use them on any body of water other than the trout ponds... and I've caught nothing but pesky bluegill on them.

esox_magnum · « **Reply #23 on:** Dec 05, 2012, 10:07 PM »

I have fished all over the state in my 30+ years of ice fishing and have seen them used all over the state...

J. Rosonke · « **Reply #24 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 02:24 AM »

By the way, it was state senator Dick Deardon (Des Moines) that got the bill passed to allow the 3rd line.

bobzitt · « **Reply #25 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 08:30 AM »

this excites me! now i can jig and tip up fish and not have to decide what i am going to do!

AlgonaIce · « **Reply #26 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 08:37 AM »

super excited, Like said before now it will be worth taking a few buddys out and getting a set of 9-12 tip ups going!

Bull_Gill_Mike · « **Reply #27 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 08:53 AM »

It's about time they did this, I do think it's BS to charge $13 bucks to run an extra line. I always run tip-ups my theory is I'm always fishing regardless off what I'm doing rebaiting the pole, drinking a beer, hole hopping etc. it only takes a few minutes to get one set up and it's always fun racing your buddy to the flag.

tysontia · « **Reply #28 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 10:07 AM »

I use one everytime in Bacon Creek and Crystal Cove (South Sioux) for trout. They are always cruising 1-2 feet below the ice and you can get them all day on a tip up.

SpoonieLuv · « **Reply #29 on:** Dec 07, 2012, 10:24 AM »

Tip up fishing is done all over the eastern part of the state. We have bass, northern, walleye, and muskie in quite a few lakes/river backwaters. Not sure where somebody would ice fish and not see some tip ups once in awhile? I've even used them for perch and yellow bass.

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Author Topic: 3rd line (Read 2267 times)