Tip Ups?

[Mtwolfer]

  was fishing with a friend who uses the round polar? tip ups and I use the old wooden style , we were fishing close to each other using the same bait on a really sunny day and he really out fished me, so the question is do you think the hole being covered up helps? His black ones did better than the orange ones. I think I need to make some hole covers?

[vicster]

It might.  My only issue with the round ones is if you do a overnight soak when it's cold they freeze in so bad takes 5 min with a spud bar to get em out and you still have 10lbs of ice stuck to them....  other than that I really like them and for shallow sets it definitely might make a difference some days.

[Rengum]

find some old conveyor belt it works great for hole covers, very inexpensive!

[Luvinfishun]

Don’t know the answer if covering the hole for darkness works or not.  Once we had to chip our tip outs out of the ice and broke a couple.  We then went to Lowe’s and bought heavier floor matting and cut our own.  Saved us a bundle compared to the store bought. 

[hoofer]

mtwolfer,it might have been just bad luck.i have used wooden tip ups for years without covering the hole seams to work fine.not much light gets through a 8-10 inch hole and besides a person uses flood lights,lanterns etc when night fishing.maybe next time you will out fish your buddy.

[Old Man Winter]

Sometimes they work better and sometimes they dont, in my experience.