Author Topic: Keeping holes open, great idea  (Read 144497 times)

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Keeping holes open, great idea
« on: Nov 07, 2003, 01:23 PM »
This method was mentioned below by "buckbuster" and was shown to me by a holman lake regular last year, it works great.

Take a cheap minnow bucket areator, the kind that runs on double A batteries. Run the tube to a areator stone, that is then placed in the hole. You can use a T connector to run several stones off of one pump. This way you can use one pump to keep several holes open, limited by how much tubeing you want laying around the ice.

Like I said, this was not my invention, but it sure works great and I thought I'd pass it along.


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Re:Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #1 on: Nov 07, 2003, 02:03 PM »
hey, good idea.I will have to try it IF we ever get any ice.
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Re:Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #2 on: Nov 13, 2003, 11:21 PM »
The best way to keep holes open that I have found is to fish every day!! ;D ;D ;D

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Re:Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #3 on: Nov 16, 2003, 01:35 PM »
I have found that if you take a pice of paper(match covers work great} and split it half way and put it on your line -it will wigle in the wind and keep the hole open.This is for tip up use.

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #4 on: Feb 14, 2004, 08:37 AM »
You better get a good aereator because the cheap ones from the major discount stores can barely pump air into a minnow bucket, let alone a series of ice holes...

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #5 on: Feb 15, 2004, 11:01 AM »
I don't know about that. I have 2 different ones I bought this year and they both work! I always thought the same thing becuase i never had one worth a hill o beans. Some of the new ones are great!

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #6 on: Feb 17, 2004, 07:34 AM »
After owning several aquariums in my lifetime, I've found that you really have to look for a good stone.  You don't need fine bubbles for this so your best bet would be to get a small stone that is really porous (sp?).  You can test them out by blowing through them.  You don't want one that plugs your ears when you try to blow through it.

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #7 on: Feb 17, 2004, 03:01 PM »
I like having to go around and actually clean my holes with a spoon. It forces me to also check my bait. Quite often after hours of no action on a tip up I check to find an empty hook. Who knows how long the little bugger got away?

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #8 on: Feb 17, 2004, 05:38 PM »
Try the natural way use fish oil, cod liver oil or your favorite scents that are oil based. Keeps the hole from freezing and scents the area as well with no harmful effects to the water. ;D
  



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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #9 on: Feb 18, 2004, 12:00 AM »
this was mentioned on a previous post but...get a ping pong ball and paint it black....and throw it in your hole...it will be heated by the sund and will float around and keep the hole ice free....again this was in a previous post just thought i would mention it to you guys

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #10 on: Feb 18, 2004, 08:54 AM »
oil in the hole will work, but you will get that cr_p on your line and onto your reel and everything else.. not for me..grumpymoe

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #11 on: Feb 18, 2004, 08:56 AM »
I'm with Andrew Drumond on this one. For jigging I'd rather keep the holes open with my scoop. I have tried fish oils, smelly jelly, etc and all that happens is that the cold water makes it stick to the line and then it ends up a goopy mess on my reel. Then especially with one and two pound test the line "fuses" into a blob. For my tipups, I have used old black frisbees with a notch cutout and that seems to work well. (Except for the time the wind caught them sitting on my sled on the way out. I've never seen anything accelerate so quickly!)
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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #12 on: Feb 18, 2004, 02:32 PM »
 Keep pullin fish out of them and they won't freeze!!  LOL

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #13 on: Feb 24, 2004, 02:47 PM »
any other ideas such as the black frisbee or the black pingpong ball?  seems like a couple good ideas to me..  I stuck a piece of bark in the hole and it seemed to do the trick for a while.. ???   
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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #14 on: Mar 04, 2004, 11:29 PM »
Have heard of W-D 40 as both a way to keep the hole open (unless very cold or under wind blown snow conditions) and as a fish attractant. Always forget to take any with me, so my experience is limited. Plus there is the "greasy reel" and "is it good for the environment" questions. Anyone have any good or bad experience with it?.
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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #15 on: Aug 31, 2004, 04:36 AM »
i woul bet the fish would smell the wd 40 this wont help your tip up hole this is for keeping your hole open overnights when you fish a hardshack and dont want to drill inside your fishhole and then you have to shovel it all out...check these airbags out www.airbags.com

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #16 on: Sep 28, 2004, 03:09 PM »
Andrew Dumond,

I have the same thing happen when I'm fishing tip ups. Sometimes when I check I notice there is no bait there. Could the lake trout have possibly sucked off the bait without tripping the flag? They do hit extremely light here.
Anyway, have any of you tried those battery operated hole warmers? They are like little disks that keep the hole warm so it doesn't refreeze. I think I need these for my wind tip ups.

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #17 on: Sep 28, 2004, 03:18 PM »
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Ya gotta pee anyway; Peein' in the hole helps keep it from freezin' over.

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #18 on: Sep 30, 2004, 11:51 PM »
I keep a old coffee can full of water on the wood stove and pour a little in the holes when they start to freeze over not to much or you could melt you line

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #19 on: Oct 08, 2004, 10:06 PM »
Last time I looked hot water melts ice

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #20 on: Oct 18, 2004, 08:40 PM »
I had a buddy spray his minnow (frozen shiner) with WD-40 and he was catching fish with it.  They were biting so good that day it was impossible to tell if it helped, but at least it didn't hurt.  As for keeping ice off the hole I'm not sure.  I've used windshield washer antifreeze with some luck but it doesn't float so bringing fish up the hole dilutes it.  Don't think its bad for the environment but I don't use it anymore.

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #21 on: Oct 19, 2004, 06:52 AM »
yes, that certainly is very bad for the environment - DON'T PUT THAT IN THE LAKE!!!

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #22 on: Oct 19, 2004, 10:33 AM »
I scoop the blown snow and ice rim off regularly by hand, and often find that the little jiggle of moving the line aside to get the ice out will trigger a strike, particularly when you're dead-sticking.
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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #23 on: Oct 19, 2004, 12:31 PM »
hot water freezes faster than cold water!

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #24 on: Oct 19, 2004, 05:59 PM »
Windburn is correct, At hoome I had a hot water line that ran right next to a cold water line the darn hot water line would always freeze first so one day playing cards, drinking beers and tellin tall tales. I told the gang about this, they thought I was full of crap, so we did some experimenting on the lake one bored day, nobody believed me until I proved my point. Strange but true.


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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #25 on: Oct 19, 2004, 11:11 PM »
Yes it is a fact that hotwater freezes first . It's always my hotwater line that freezes in the winter up here and always long before the cold one does . Weird I know , but it's true and of course Bill Nye the Science Guy says the same because I told him so . LOL ;D

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #26 on: Oct 20, 2004, 04:46 AM »
lmao TRAPPERDIRK THE SCIENCE ...lets see what rhymes with Dirk... :whistle:

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #27 on: Oct 20, 2004, 06:44 AM »
lmao TRAPPERDIRK THE SCIENCE ...lets see what rhymes with Dirk... :whistle:

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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #28 on: Oct 20, 2004, 09:25 AM »
I am requesting an explanation from the shanty answer guy, Cider!  Has anyone heard from Cider lately?

Scott, could you make something lime the Bat signal to get Cider's attention at times like this?
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Re: Keeping holes open, great idea
« Reply #29 on: Oct 20, 2004, 03:16 PM »
I did a little checking and found that windshield washer antifreeze is in fact environmentally friendly.  Shell.ca says that it is made from two types of alcohol and water.  The alcohol is quickly biodegradeable.  You have to be careful not to get washer fluid with added cleaners.

 



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