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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Tipups => Topic started by: buckzone101 on Dec 25, 2016, 01:59 PM
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Whats everyone use for hook keepers on your tip ups?
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Many ways to do that. Just NOT the spooled line. YIKES !
Wide rubber band with a tab made on it makes for easy removal. ;)2
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The old lady's hair ties
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Beaver Dams (wood) some I have a electrical staple, and on others I have foam bobbers screwed to the wood
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I'm using wide rubber bands also, get the hook on it wrap around the reel and find another place to wrap it around. As easy and cheap and functional as you'll find IMO.
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50 count of .5X8 inch velcro cable ties for $5
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I glue a cork to my tip ups and bury the hooks in it.
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For a single hook I use inch wide velcro strip long enough to go completely around the spool. For big treble hooks I use a heavy rubber band.
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Iv used the egale claw velco things and wasnt impressed used rubber bands but seem to always break them. I might try using my ol ladys hair ties..
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Our tipups are likely very different from what you are using. However, there maybe a variation that might suit your needs. I'll also say because I use uncoated wire or superline leaders, there is not a memory issue. I wind everything right up on the spool, fold it up and snap the bungee over. Done....
(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee417/esox_xtm/Lures%20and%20Tackle/SpoolKeeper.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/esox_xtm/media/Lures%20and%20Tackle/SpoolKeeper.jpg.html)
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Esox_xtm thats actually the style my girlfriend is using, im using the round polar ones. She picked up a pack of 24 hair ties for like 2 bucks for me today !!
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(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h179/Morgano5/a0c55c79-6057-4764-a63d-eb7b7a3e57eb_zpsua0qqkes.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Morgano5/media/a0c55c79-6057-4764-a63d-eb7b7a3e57eb_zpsua0qqkes.jpg.html)
gum bands
GOD BLESS
mo
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I bought the straps that Eagle Claw make and use them, I got them at Dick's Sporting Goods, the price wasn't bad, and they work good.
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I use these things http://www.jacktraps.com/store.php/products/reel-hook-holders (http://www.jacktraps.com/store.php/products/reel-hook-holders)
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gum bands
Gum bands? Are there any in those photos, Mo?
Could you show us one on a contrasting surface?
May I request a close-up?
Thanks Mo. ;)2
Good luck.
:icefish:
Tom
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Gum bands? Are there any in those photos, Mo?
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They are at the top of the tip-up. He uses eye screws to attach the bands. works well.
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I take my leaders off and use a pool noodle to hold the leaders. No hooks, no mess!!!
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They are at the top of the tip-up. He uses eye screws to attach the bands. works well.
Don't think they understand western,PA talk...lucky I'm fluent in western PA talk so I will translate. Gum band is a rubber band..
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I use rubber bands and/or hair ties. Cheap and they work!
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I use old 35mm film containers. I just put the treble hook in and snap the lid shut. You do have to cut a slot for the line, but no tangles at all.
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I use old 35mm film containers. I just put the treble hook in and snap the lid shut. You do have to cut a slot for the line, but no tangles at all.
I like that idea!
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I like to use the plastic treble hook covers for mine
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Velcro strap and plastic treble hook covers...
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg22/bart607/Ice%20fishing/P2200035_zpse01419e5.jpg)
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Velcro strips. Best move I've ever made. Use to use rubber bands.
Bought a 12ft roll at Walmart. Cut them in 1ft sections. Two out of the three hooks on a treble will catch the Velcro. Then I pull tight and wrap it around once and overlap the Velcro over the hook, preventing it from tangling with others.
Dream come true.
PS. I use this on heritage Lakers. Probably would work with any stick or polar tipup
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Btw, $6 for the 12 ft Velcro strip