Author Topic: What do you call them? (Read 3618 times)

VTLakers · « **on:** Mar 14, 2021, 07:36 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"?

WARRIOR_ON_ICE · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 07:49 AM »

I have lived in eastern NY all my life and have never heard them called anything except " tipups "

VTLakers · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 07:53 AM »

Until I went off to college I never once heard them get called anything other than tilts. So I was wondering if every state called them something different.

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 07:57 AM »

Mainly referred to as "tip-ups" in the areas of Michigan I've lived. "Tip-Up Town" is an annual festival held on Houghton Lake and can draw a pretty large crowd - at least it used to.

kpd145 · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 08:07 AM »

Im fron CT

Ive called them traps for years

Gamalot · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 08:47 AM »

Soft drink, Soda or POP. All depends upon where you are and who you are talking with. Call them whatever you like but call me when you see "Flag Up". Where I grew up and still live in the lower NY Catskills they were always just tip ups. I have a real nice set of Jack Traps but still tip ups. These days unlike in the past we now have Tip Downs, Jaw Jackers, and all sorts of new inventions for catching fish through a hole in the ice. If you had told me back in the early 1960s I would be able to see the fish under the ice coming up to take my bait on an electronic finder screen or even with an underwater camera I'd have laughed at you. Some of my gear is over 60 years old and still catching fish just like back when I started in this sport. I now have disc type tip ups and the basics remain, when a fish takes your bait the tip goes up.

Light liner · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 09:19 AM »

Yup the “flat landers” call them tilts. Us Vermonters call them tip ups or traps.

filetandrelease · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 09:57 AM »

Tip ups , tilts here are considered tip downs

VTLakers · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 10:56 AM »

Quote from: Light liner on Mar 14, 2021, 09:19 AM

Yup the “flat landers” call them tilts. Us Vermonters call them tip ups or traps.

Its the only thing Ive ever heard people ~~from ~~Connecticut~~~~ "Flat Landers"call them.

Gamalot · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 11:09 AM »

Trap definition, "a container or device used to collect a specified thing". I think the term trap for tip up comes from our early ancestors who set trap lines during winter and it carried over to setting your tip ups, (traps) to catch fish.

hardwater diehard · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 11:14 AM »

https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=384523.0

VTLakers · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 11:21 AM »

Quote from: hardwater diehard on Mar 14, 2021, 11:14 AM

https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=384523.0

Yea accidentally posted it to the New Hampshire board when I was thinking about the topic and couldnt find out how to delete the post.

Dawn Breaks · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 11:22 AM »

Quote from: VTLakers on Mar 14, 2021, 07:36 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"?

Same deal. I grew up in MA and they were tilts, went to college @ Unity in Maine and they were traps or some people called them jacks, now I live in VT and they are tip ups. Funny how such different names only a few hours apart.

maddogg · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 11:24 AM »

Tipups and traps I understand,but where does the name traps come from?

smitty · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 12:05 PM »

I always referred them as tip ups. yup tip ups

smitty

slipperybob · « **Reply #15 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 01:46 PM »

It's a trap when it's still in the bucket. It's a tip down if it is relatively close and no running required. It's a tip up if it's relatively further away and some snow shuffle hustle is needed to get to it before the fish runs too much line off.

eiderz · « **Reply #16 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 02:35 PM »

I live in CT and never heard anything but tipup here until ten years ago, when I met a guy who said tilt. Must be a very localized thing in CT to call them tilts. Always heard traps in ME, and I have a set of real tipdowns made for NY perch. The tip downs are a simple wire swiveling on a pin, the line pulls the flag down when a fish hits.

Light liner · « **Reply #17 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 03:07 PM »

It’s like shanties. In NH they call them bob houses.
Another example: here Vt if you lose your khakis, you lose your pants.
In ma you lose your khakis you can’t start your car.

DR.SPECKLER · « **Reply #18 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 03:38 PM »

Definitely called a tipup here in Michigan.

Roccus · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 05:43 PM »

Traps.. only use the other descriptions when trying not to be repetitive..

Hardwater2 · « **Reply #20 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 06:09 PM »

Tip ups

Fishracks · « **Reply #21 on:** Mar 14, 2021, 06:57 PM »

Quote from: Light liner on Mar 14, 2021, 03:07 PM

It’s like shanties. In NH they call them bob houses.
Another example: here Vt if you lose your khakis, you lose your pants.
In ma you lose your khakis you can’t start your car.

river_scum · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 07:03 AM »

Quote from: VTLakers on Mar 14, 2021, 07:36 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"?

id guess?: tilts = tip downs of sort

traps = comes from jack traps (made in main)

tip-ups = all polar style

Icephishwyo · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 08:19 AM »

Wheelhouse plate

DowneastPescador · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 08:45 AM »

I Usually call them tip-ups but when I’m fishing them I call them traps. “We had 5 traps apiece out” or “I’ve been fishing mostly tip-ups this year and sometimes jawjackers.”

Spider1 · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 11:19 AM »

I usually call them traps or tip ups.

rdhammah · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 07:53 AM »

when I first ice fished when I was in high school, we called them tilts. after a 40 year hiatis away from ice fishing, I got back into it about 10 years or so ago and have called them tip ups or traps ever since. Even forgot the name "tilts" till you brought this up! I still have my original tilts and scoop auger!

Adironzach · « **Reply #27 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 08:53 AM »

I live on the edge of the ADKs and they've always been "tips-ups" for me. Although, I personally use "traps" interchangeably. Its whatever my brain decides to fire off when im speaking

Never have heard them called tilts tho. Can definitely understand why theyd earn that moniker

hawg · « **Reply #28 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 09:53 AM »

Tip Ups, but then again I've never in my 68 years heard a fish house called a shanty. I know out east some have never heard of a "fish house".

PikeKing23 · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 16, 2021, 10:45 AM »

I call them useless. Mine don't catch fish. $:-\$

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Author Topic: What do you call them? (Read 3618 times)