Ice fishing terminology??

[Hess]

Hard to believe, but Champlain ice fishing regs allow up to 15 tip-ups...!!

[Gunflint]

Hard to believe, but Champlain ice fishing regs allow up to 15 tip-ups...!!

I think that they must have a powerful lobby of the tip-up manufacturers...

The market in Minnesota would only be $40/fisherman.  The market there would be $300/fisherman.

How could somebody keep 15 holes ice-free in cold weather? 

[mowbizz]

I am of the “trap” community and where the heck did the word “spud” come from...all my life it’s been a chisel and I’m 70 years old!
A “spud” was a potato wrapped in foil and thrown on an open fire.
 

[Gunflint]

I am of the “trap” community and where the heck did the word “spud” come from...all my life it’s been a chisel and I’m 70 years old!
A “spud” was a potato wrapped in foil and thrown on an open fire.
 

Spear or Lance beats out potato by over 350 years. Spud meaning "potato" probably evolved from the concept that potatoes are harvested with a "spade" that was called a "spud."

spud (n.)

mid-15c., "small or poor knife," of uncertain origin probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjot "spear," German Spiess "spear, lance"). Meaning "spade" is from 1660s; sense of "short or stumpy person or thing" is from 1680s; that of "potato" is first recorded 1845 in New Zealand English.

[SHaRPS]

Drum role please..........

The official term by Wikipedia is Tip-up. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_fishing

"The second is using tip-ups, which are made of wood or plastic, and have a spool of line attached, with a thin piece of metal that goes from the spool to the flag. Black line is put on the spool and a swivel is placed at the end of the black line."

Now, we should start a pole on here and see what the real winner is based on ice fisherman across the country. After all, we are the real pro's of this sport, right? If its Tip-up, so be it. If its Trap, lets have them change it.

[Gunflint]

Drum role please..........

The official term by Wikipedia is Tip-up. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_fishing

"The second is using tip-ups, which are made of wood or plastic, and have a spool of line attached, with a thin piece of metal that goes from the spool to the flag. Black line is put on the spool and a swivel is placed at the end of the black line."

Now, we should start a pole on here and see what the real winner is based on ice fisherman across the country. After all, we are the real pro's of this sport, right? If its Tip-up, so be it. If its Trap, lets have them change it.

I think that the Frostbite Boys (from the Midwest) must have hacked Wikipedia to shut down the East Coast local linguistic tendencies.

[Iceassin]

I think that the Frostbite Boys (from the Midwest) must have hacked Wikipedia to shut down the East Coast local linguistic tendencies.

👍😁👍

[HuntnFish603]

Drum role please..........

The official term by Wikipedia is Tip-up. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_fishing

"The second is using tip-ups, which are made of wood or plastic, and have a spool of line attached, with a thin piece of metal that goes from the spool to the flag. Black line is put on the spool and a swivel is placed at the end of the black line."

Now, we should start a pole on here and see what the real winner is based on ice fisherman across the country. After all, we are the real pro's of this sport, right? If its Tip-up, so be it. If its Trap, lets have them change it.

I don't use black line on my spools, so that definition of tip up doesn't pertain to me ...
Therefore it's a trap 

[Iceassin]

This is what us Midwesterner's call a trap...

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[zwiggles]

Drum role please..........

The official term by Wikipedia is Tip-up. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_fishing

"The second is using tip-ups, which are made of wood or plastic, and have a spool of line attached, with a thin piece of metal that goes from the spool to the flag. Black line is put on the spool and a swivel is placed at the end of the black line."

Now, we should start a pole on here and see what the real winner is based on ice fisherman across the country. After all, we are the real pro's of this sport, right? If its Tip-up, so be it. If its Trap, lets have them change it.

I’m half tempted now to make an account an edit the page.... it’s clearly wrong....

[Gunflint]

I’m half tempted now to make an account an edit the page.... it’s clearly wrong....

You from Frostbite?

[Gunflint]

This is what us Midwesterner's call a trap...

Exactly, and this is what they are for:

[Iceassin]

Exactly, and this is what they are for:

Nice rat Gunflint. Now we have to figure out how to put a minnow on that thing and get it down the hole. 

[Gunflint]

Nice rat Gunflint. Now we have to figure out how to put a minnow on that thing and get it down the hole. 

The guys in the Northeast can help explain it to us. 

[Nosaj]

I think that they must have a powerful lobby of the tip-up manufacturers...

The market in Minnesota would only be $40/fisherman.  The market there would be $300/fisherman.

How could somebody keep 15 holes ice-free in cold weather? 

Yeah, Dick, the OP wandered over to the Vermont page and tried to make that point about being able to tend 15 traps and that it was way too may tipups     boy did he stir things up.  I think he had to change his user name just to set foot back on the VT page!!

Dick you ought to try that again and get the Midwest boys to pile on for support....

[NateD]

I own jack traps, but call them tip-ups 

[Rando5512]

I’ve alwAys referred to
Them as traps. But tip ups or whatever works for me

[mowbizz]

Spear or Lance beats out potato by over 350 years. Spud meaning "potato" probably evolved from the concept that potatoes are harvested with a "spade" that was called a "spud."

spud (n.)

mid-15c., "small or poor knife," of uncertain origin probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjot "spear," German Spiess "spear, lance"). Meaning "spade" is from 1660s; sense of "short or stumpy person or thing" is from 1680s; that of "potato" is first recorded 1845 in New Zealand English.

LMAO...ok while you are prancing around the lake “lancing” or “spearing” your holes, I'll be CHISELING my holes (drilling with Ion nowadays!)
 

[Gunflint]

LMAO...ok while you are prancing around the lake “lancing” or “spearing” your holes, I'll be CHISELING my holes (drilling with Ion nowadays!)
 

I don't think that I own a real spud (except the potato kind or the spade. I only ice fish in Minnesota for Lake Trout and the season opens the first of January. No real ice danger to use a spud for. I have an ice saw to cut large holes so an auger and saw are enough.

[Dickbakers]

OK!  This was my thread.  My query was about long term use of the term tipup or trap in NH ,Maine and Vt.  Consensus is that the common term was long ago Trap but Tipup is now used equally.  The term Tilt seems to have a southern New England origin?  Thats all I wanted to know.  Thanks for all the interesting banter.
Dick