Mark your tipups.

[jayswimmer09]

no need for that here in pa!!

[bmann]

I worry about people seeing my portable shelter. The sleds fly by very close and when you are in the tent, you think they are going to drive right thru. 

[brujharr]

Not, really sure on this one!  I, would like to think, that WI. is pushing for a 200 ft. barrier between everybody on public water! Summer or Winter!!    Shoreline, dock, tip-up, jet-ski, kid's in a tube, shack, swimmers, and anybody else!  The list, could go on for ever !! If , theire's something is in front of you first, give them a 200 ft. berth!    Small or restricted areas, NO WAKE! or 5 M.P.H.!    Make a law, Plain and Simple! 

[eyehunter]

I use a three foot fiberglass rod painted the end blaze orange and tied a orange ribbon on the end,works good

[brujharr]

Wouldn't it be sweet, NO JETSKI'S, within 200 ft. of each other!  No speeding snowmobile's!     Tear up the whole lake, over there!!!!    They have the right to enjoy there sport!

[cnyfishing]

Wouldn't it be sweet, NO JETSKI'S, within 200 ft. of each other!  No speeding snowmobile's!     Tear up the whole lake, over there!!!!    They have the right to enjoy there sport!

it would be sweet to have space like that... but the cops are going to be quite busy to enforce it

[brujharr]

200 ft. BERTH! Must be sailor talk?

[TROUTHUNTER35]

I use a 1 x 2 and wrap some reflective tap around the top of mine. that way at night i can find them easily and so snowmobilers or four wheelers can see them with there head lights. If people keep hitting them than i make a little adjustment what i put around the tip-ups. And ruin there property instead of them thinking they own the hole lake, but it wakes them up and especially those kids that dont have any respect for anyone on the ice! I shouldn't really do that but i dont feel like replacing ten beavers dams a year.

Reflective tape is a really good idea!! I may be trying that out this winter.

[Mainehazmt]

Reflective tape is a really good idea!! I may be trying that out this winter.

I used to put that on my mail box so plow wouldnt hit it    lol   think it just made a better target to line up on   lol

[brujharr]

The markers saved the day again, twice so far this year!!   

[putback]

If you know someone working for a phone or cable company, they can get you some small marker flags. About 1/8" dia fiberglass rod 2ft tall topped with sm orange flag. Bundle of a dozen small and lite, do the job.

[brujharr]

putback! That's a great idea! For portables!

[Wolf Point]

Following on some of the ideas already mentioned here, I found 4' fluorescent green fiberglass rods at Lowe's that come with the top 8" rapped with reflective tape. They run about 2.00 each and are in the mail box/house-for-sale section. I added a 2" x 4" flag of reflective red/whit/red/white tape on top of each stick, and covered the reflective tape with a 3M clear heavy duty packing tape to increase the flag durability. They work great, their light weight, and they really help locate the traps after dark.

[esox13]

I use soccer cones with reflective tape around the top 1/3 and have yet to have a problem. I also put a strip of reflective tape along the sides of my tip ups I fish at night with.

This year I bought 3 new Arctic Fisherman (Beaver Dam) Illuminator tip ups. There is reflective material sewn into the flag and the board is finished with a material that allows the board to glow green at night so it is easily seen. It "charges" with a light source - same concept as glow jigs. The longer the boards are exposed to light - the longer they will glow.