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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Equipment => Topic started by: SirCranksalot on Mar 10, 2020, 08:16 AM
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There have been many diff versions posted to make a reg Xducer suitable for ice fishing. I did 1 myself a few years back but now I have a reg bullet type iceducer. There were some versions on here that were a bit more slick than mine but I can't find any right now.---e.g My friend just bought his first FF and i would like to pass on some suggestions to make the conversion. Any links or suggestions---thx
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Seen some pictures of IS members looping the transducer cable and then zip tie it to the transducers mount … getting the transducer to sit level..pretty EZPZ.
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mine is mounted in the end of square aluminum tubing, saved from an old porch. I clamp it to transom and put a float on it for winter. a chunk of pipe insulation or swim noodle. could probably just use swim noodle alone to float it in a hole tho. could just sit the ducer in shallow hole of water next to fishing hole.E
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took the broken spool off an old trap, then mounted my ducer right where the spool went
easy to adjust to get the best reading
i use in the same hole
good luck :thumbsup:
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took the broken spool off an old trap, then mounted my ducer right where the spool went
easy to adjust to get the best reading
i use in the same hole
good luck :thumbsup:
Yup and you can stick a round bubble level to the top of the transducer to make leveling it easy.
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Thx for the suggestions---I will pass them along to my bud. I am a bit puzzled by the 'trap' though. I assume you mean a tip-up. The tip-ups I have seen have the axis of the spool vertical so if you were to mount the xducer on that it would be shooting horizontally. I must be missing something here.
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wooden cross style tip up ;D
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thx---now it makes sense. Have never seen those
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the term jerry rig is anti jew
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Is it really? I thought it originated in WW II when the Germans were referred to as Jerries but has lost any of that meaning since then.
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I have always thought it was jury rigging and still do ;).
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From the internet....
Jury-rigged means something was assembled quickly with the materials on hand. Jerry-built means it was cheaply or poorly built. Jerry-rigged is a variant of jury-rigged, and it may have been influenced by jerry-built. While some people consider it to be an incorrect version of jury-rigged, it’s widely used, especially in everyday speech.
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From the internet....
Jury-rigged means something was assembled quickly with the materials on hand. Jerry-built means it was cheaply or poorly built. Jerry-rigged is a variant of jury-rigged, and it may have been influenced by jerry-built. While some people consider it to be an incorrect version of jury-rigged, it’s widely used, especially in everyday speech.
:clap: :thumbsup: :whistle:
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a bit deeper on the origin of the term
"Jerry rigged" to refer to expedient work by the Germans in WWII
(In order to kill jews).
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I've used 1/4 inch strips of aluminum drill spots and hook to regular bracket (boat) then on top drill holes in strips and use a aluminum rod that goes through the top holes and also makes a handle.