The wife and I are new to ice fishing. Don't know about elsewhere, but Coloradoans going for kokanee swear by jigging a separate hole with a set of lake trolls, or cow bells, to attract a school of fish. Some folks set up the attractor rig 5 to 10 feet from the closest ice fishing hole, depending on drift, distance down to the kokes, etc.. If placed in the correct general area, the angler with the attractor doesn't need to move locations multiple times.
However, muscle strain and fatigue are problematic for hand jigging the attractor. I want in on the kokanee action, but don't yet want to buy a battery-powered jigging machine, which many icers say is necessary to do the attractor jigging correctly. My idea, which I hope to try Feb. 7-9, is to rig a fulcrum (think teeter-totter), and to lift and lower one end by hand, with the attractor suspended on the other end doing its thing X number of feet below ice. Not a heavy or bulky contraption, but maybe an 8-foot-long 1x2 pivoting on a rod I can fabricate and insert into a hole drilled in the ice. The wife and I could trade off. Does this sound feasible, or am I
