Support Iceshanty... Get some great gear and forum goodies... Join The Iceshanty Hardwater Militia
This is called an ice scratcher, made by Scratcher Products Co. Stoddard Wisconsin...Its the only one around here, that I know of..So......<°)))>{
Is that yours?
When I was a kid I absolutely loved to go ice fishing with my dad. One spot we would fish for bluegill's was a small lake where the fish would go +25' deep in the dead of winter. The gear we used was pretty simple - either Schooley's or just rods with wire line holders in place of a reel that you would just wind the line onto. In shallow water those setups are okay to use, but in that deeper water you needed to do a "hand-to-rod tip" maneuver to bring your fish up, and at 7-8 years old I hadn't quite mastered that technique. Instead I would set the hook and take off running - sometimes I pulled the fish all the way up and of the hole, other times I remember running about to where I figured the fish was just below the ice, drop the rod, run back to the hole, and then try landing the bugger by hand lining it up and through the hole. Thinking about it, I imagine my dad got quite a kick out of watching this.Anyway, one of those times out at that spot the fish catching was slow to nothing and I had been at the hole sitting on my bucket watching my bobber for quite a length of time. It's been 50 years, but I still remember my dad saying to me "you better get a bite soon or you're gonna end up with a bad case of bucket rump" - of course referring to my patented technique of jumping up and running to alleviate that issue. After that day the reference "bucket rump" came to mean between my dad and I that it was a slow day of catching with not much biting. I picked Bucket Rump simply because it's a term that reminds of days I truly cherished fishing with my dad.