IceShanty.com's Ice Fishing Community
Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Equipment => Ice Augers => Topic started by: markinohio on Feb 13, 2018, 10:35 AM
-
I LOVE my orange Nils, but I’m considering adding a 6” K-drill to the arsenal. I’m looking to save weight/space in the sled when I’m moving around a lot. Considered getting a Nils Arctic Trekker and using just the 14” section it in “early ice mode”, but I’m afraid bending over would get painful. I noticed that they claim that the K-drill leaves little slush in the hole. That would make the decision easy for me. So, does the K-Drill leave a hole that is fishable without scooping?
-
just put your drill in reverse and flush all the shavings back down the hole.
-
Yep. After I drill the hole with my k-drill, I kick away the pike of ice shavings and then run the drill in reverse for a few seconds. Clear hole with no scooping.
-
I use my 8 in Kdrill like I did my gas auger..after break through push through ...forcing the ice down...any eventually away from the hole then I extract the auger using some throttle to clear the hole out..also you should be cleaning the augered ice periodically as your drill by lifting the Kdrill up every 5 seconds or so. With this seasons abundance of black ice and very little snow cover I was keeping some shavings in the hole as well as leaving a cone ...my theory was to disperse some of the sunlight. The height of the Kdrill with adapter and the Clam Plate is very much the height of a gas auger .