Best Homemade Gadget You Take Out On The Ice...

[troutpig]

Wanted something different for my hub shelters, other than those T-handle adapters

[RStock521]

Wanted something different for my hub shelters, other than those T-handle adapters

How do you screw that in?  I've seen people use lags with a hex head, then drive them in with a drill and socket adapter, but yours look round?  Maybe it's just the angle of the pic making it look that way, but I'm just curious...

[smitty0312]

I made a center counsel for my Clam Yukon with compartments to keep things better organized for jigs & drinks. Very handy. Tight Lines.

[happyheber]

I tuned out my Jetsled Jr with an auger holder and a raised flasher mount that is at eye level. It saves my neck and back as I am more of a standing person than a bucket sitter. I then built some 40" long rods for the height. The package is less bending over and hunched body positions which allowing me to fish longer and more comfortably through a 12h day of fishing. All the components of the sled break down to flat with a pull of a pin or a turn of a knob.

do ya have any pics 

[ran7ger]

It sounds like your using some of my fish whistles !!   It's  legal in Maine  to (get sprayed by a skunk now )  .  No different then having a beer

 those "fish whistles" (love that btw) should be illegal for how well they work!  will be fair game up here next year around canada day!  gonna be a good day.

[bart]

Windguard and cooking rack on the Mr. Heater



I did a video of these mods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIqHWWkMuc

[dangle]

I like your wind guard, Bart. I made a cook top for my buddy heater also.
http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/1dangle/media/20150901_162203_zpsqee1sagg.jpeg.html?sort=3&o=3

[bart]

I like your wind guard, Bart. I made a cook top for my buddy heater also.
http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/1dangle/media/20150901_162203_zpsqee1sagg.jpeg.html?sort=3&o=3

The wind guard works well. It's hard to tell if the rack is touching the handle in the pic, gotta be careful you don't melt the handle.

[FishGut]

I love my Salt Valley Tipups (Lincoln NE, circa 197?). A modern set of is five built from a 1/6 board cut into squares, some 2 inch PVC pipe for a spool, aluminum laundry wire legs, and piano wire and bandanna shreds for flags. Windproof if you set 'em right, adjustable for any weight from free running to several ounces.

[staggerin]

Cooking rack for my big buddy,  custom vertical jigs kinda like the perch talkers,  and the 12 volt battery box with switches that I'm working on.

[buz23]

She aint pretty, but it's incredibly useful. I've also added a few features since I took this picture.
- Sled is used as bench seat in my pop up style fish house.
- Seat backs that are hinged with paracord, so they lay flat when not in use
- A 1" PVC rack that fits in holes of the sides (on top, to stand vertically) to help keep stuff from falling off the side. These holes also work as rod holders

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Those skis have got a lot of rocker, like the one I built.  Load the thing up with whatever it takes to make it sit flat on the floor, then fasten a section of lightweight board along the side of the ski supports on each side to hold them in that position.  It will track and ride a lot better on the ice.

[Gamedog1]

Home made custom rods (spinning and through the blank longer ice rods with the cork handle)and a Hook remover for those expensive tungsten jigs. Both items sold at stores BUT! custom made are better! 

[bart]

I made this sled. The Boy Scouts use it during the Winter Camporees, it's been indestructible!


A PVC Rack Insert, works great. I would only lower the auger rack portion.

[Spud_bar]

Those skis have got a lot of rocker, like the one I built.  Load the thing up with whatever it takes to make it sit flat on the floor, then fasten a section of lightweight board along the side of the ski supports on each side to hold them in that position.  It will track and ride a lot better on the ice.

Good tip! it does fish tail a bit side to side when on glare ice. Thanks.

[Nessmuck]

I made an anchoring system for my hub style portable shack....Nevah had any luck with the screw/ Lag type systems.....you run into lousy ice...slush ice ..false ice...they Nevah seem to work for me....even had my Snap-on impact driver on the ice...to wind them in ..no luck. Pics to follow....or maybe I need to patent it first...lol

[bart]

Found the other sled I had made, heavier than the other one. Gave it to the Boy Scouts also, they use this one for hauling gear and wood. The other one is light and used for the Dog Sled races.

[Light liner]

I made a couple cupfors last season they work great.

[Paul of Hbg.]

Several years ago I bought a book which had plans on how to make something called "a spitter" so I thought I'd make one.
BTW its purpose is to keep the fishing hole from freezing over.
After making one you simply drill a hole part of the way through the ice next to the hole you're fishing through. Then put the "spitter" to work by splashing a bit of water into the fake hole so the dip tube on the spitter has some water to draw from. Then light the spitter up.....its just a metal can with coiled copper tubing inside, that has the bottom end of the tubing poked out through the lower part of the can, and soldered around it to keep water out of the can). I think I used about 10ft of 1/4" tubing for my small metal coffee can. I saved the lid to keep the charcoal from making a mess in the jet sled.
The top of the coil of copper is extended out over your fishing hole. Inside the can is placed some charcoal, and you light it up.
The idea is that the water in the bottom coil heats into steamy burps that plop into the real hole and keep it warm enough not to freeze. I wish I new how to reduce the file size of the pic on my phone....I'd post a pic....

[hardwater diehard]

[WYIfish]

I have pretty much seen it all now.  I use my scooper to keep the hole ice free.

[Nessmuck]

My trusty ice scoop ,has a chisel on one end...to bust up the ice,in the hole

[Tinker]

Yeah and here I just turn up the buddy heater to keep my holes open    love to see innovation though!

[gearheart]

home made moonshine. 

[dangle]

I like how gearhaert is thinking   .
I have posted this before,  I use a car carrier that I got cheap, to haul my gear. I made conduit braces and runners. Pulls real nice.I have it shown on a smitty sled, I am thinking about using Barts  idea, and making adjustable conduit runners for the height to make it easier to load.
http://s1359.photobucket.com/user/1dangle/media/20151011_143207_zpshzzngjaz.jpeg.html?sort=3&o=4

[Idahogator]

I made a couple cupfors last season they work great.

Light liner,
             I've looked far and wide for a definition of your word " cupfors" to no avail.

 Could I impose on your good nature for enlightenment, please?

 Thank you in advance, Sir.


Tom

[Big Ice Hole]

Light liner,
             I've looked far and wide for a definition of your word " cupfors" to no avail.

 Could I impose on your good nature for enlightenment, please?

 Thank you in advance, Sir.


Tom

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It's a joke!

You ask, what's a cupfors, and he says, coffee or something to that affect!

[uncleshorty]

Nuck, nuck, nuck...

[ran7ger]

yep, good one.  i never go out on the ice without some updock 

[JonPerry]

I keep a matterdaddy next to me on the seat just in case, because you never want to see what'll happen without it.

[uncleshorty]

The way the world is today, to be on the safe side, you should NEVER leave home without a garagekey and a piecost...