Tip ups and hole size

[jopes]

Does anyone have issues with their tips ups being too short for say a 10" hole?    I was looking at some tip ups today at the local store and they were 16" over all so that would leave 8" from the center shaft.  I would think if a fish hits it just right it could take the tip up down a 10" hole.

anyone have experience with this setup?

[acrawfor]

I've never had or seen an issue with this. The only reason the tip up itself should move when the fish hits it is if the spool is completely bound up. Chances are if this is the case, the fish would probably drop the bait anyhow because of the instant resistance. I personally don't think it would typically be an issue at all, forgoing a serious tip up malfunction.

[Wiener]

Were your measurements on a standard size tip up?

I have some extra large tipups, and there is now way they are going down a 10" hole.

Look around, there are different sizes.  I use the large tipups with the extra line capacity for fishing Salmon / Trout, or for thick ice.


Wiener

[Curley]

You've got it. A good fish will pull a 16" polar down a 10" hole. I've seen it happen to a guy a couple times.

[jopes]

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of.   Guess I will come up with some sort of anchor system for them so if it happens I can pull it back up.

[backwoodswalker]

Hi;
In 40 years if fishing I have never seen a tip up pulled through a hole by a fish. We have always used a 8" hole though. When my youngest son was about 7 he broke his right foot by running accross lake to a flag and stepped in a 10" hole. Foot went in and over he went. I never seen a need for a bigger hole. I am sure it would b
e possible for a fish to do it though, Just never seen it.  Steve

Have seen a few poles not attended poles pulled through though.

[gaudetskie]

You've got it. A good fish will pull a 16" polar down a 10" hole. I've seen it happen to a guy a couple times.

?? How? You'd have to spool a Beaver Dam (in an 8" hole) going like 30mph, with no snow on the ice. Even then the snap of the line breaking would have to bounce the tip up high enough into the air to let it fall sideways into the hole.? (I'm not being a jack a** here, I just can't figure out how this works.)
Nick.

[coreyl302]

You've got it. A good fish will pull a 16" polar down a 10" hole. I've seen it happen to a guy a couple times.

I'm calling shenanigans

[Wiener]

I've only seen it happen once.

A cheap plastic tipup with a spool that only hung down a couple of inches.

Interestingly enough, the line was snagged later in the day.
After pulling the tipup out, you could see it was broken beyond repair.

Buy Quality stuff.  I have some very large tipups, but not for the hole size, but the depth of ice.

I can get the spool to hang down a long way to reduce the chances of a break off, but I never have to worry about the tipup getting pulled down the hole.


Wiener

[WYIfish]

?? How? You'd have to spool a Beaver Dam (in an 8" hole) going like 30mph, with no snow on the ice. Even then the snap of the line breaking would have to bounce the tip up high enough into the air to let it fall sideways into the hole.? (I'm not being a jack a** here, I just can't figure out how this works.)
Nick.

You got my vote.  It could happen but I'd have to see it to believe it. I've fished tipups for 45 years and haven't lost one yet and I always prefer a larger hole. I like a larger  hole even when the ice isn't thick.  It all has to do with the size of fish I expect to try and get through the hole.

[Blaine]

?? How? You'd have to spool a Beaver Dam (in an 8" hole) going like 30mph, with no snow on the ice. Even then the snap of the line breaking would have to bounce the tip up high enough into the air to let it fall sideways into the hole.? (I'm not being a jack a** here, I just can't figure out how this works.)
Nick.

I witnessed it once and have sold LOTS of replacements to customers that have lost them down the hole...
Here in CT we don't get tons of snow. Even when it snows, many times it turns to slush and refreezes in its various forms.... This lets the tip up slid around the hole on a smoking run from a pike. A standard polar style tip up is 17.5". If the tip up slides far enough to where the shaft is touching the side of the hole, she's going in the drink. I know there are guys in parts of the country that really need a 10" hole and I am envious of them. But for the rest uf us, 99.99% of fish caught will come through an 8" hole:
Circumference = 3.14 x Diameter
6 inch hole = 18.8 inches
8 inch hole = 25.1 inches
10 inch hole = 31.4 inches

[jaysun23]

10" is too big for the round Frabills also, they will freeze in the hole and you will never get them out.

[MN Bassfisher]

10" is too big for the round Frabills also, they will freeze in the hole and you will never get them out.

Not completely true. I've fished my pro-thermals on 10" holes before, you just have to build up the hole a few inches with snow/ice and it'll sit on top. Now if there is no snow or ice, I wouldn't be fishing them in a 10" hole.

[gaudetskie]

10" is too big for the round Frabills also, they will freeze in the hole and you will never get them out.

Anyone else have a vision of a Frabil being sucked down a 10" hole by a big pike (and a tangled spool) with a big geyser of water shooting into the air, and some poor guy yelling "FISH ON"! 
Nick.

[finlessbrown]

fishing ice out might be a problem. i tend to use the same holes in the end of march when the thaw is on and it doesn't take long for a hole to go from 8" to 12". you can drill new holes but then it looks like swiss cheese out there.

[tipup_time]

those disc tipups are too much hassle for a 10 inch hole and lets face it..once you fish out of a 10, who wants to go down to a 8? not only that but they are cheaply made, i threw both of mine in the trash.. frabill and a polar...polar almost went down the hole on cutfoot sioux last year with a big pike..i got there in time though.. gotta go beaver dam

[ctibbetts]

I used to have a 10 inch auger.  I, and others, have fished everything from the round frabils, to small cheap traps and never had one go down the hole.  An easy fix, though, if you're worries about it is to get some pvc and cut some extensions to slip over the cross pieces when the trap is set up, or just zip-tie a dowel or something to them.

[BiG ARN]

I've got a frabill with styrofoam that floats in a 10 inch hole.  Its defenitely possible for a big fish to spool it and just pull it down the hole like a bobber.     Haven't seen this happen.  I run mostly big game tipups that sit on the ice.  If a tipup is freezing solid to the ice to the point where u gotta leave it on the ice when ya go home...id say its slightly neglected!  LoL.    I make my rounds and check on them. Make sure they still have bait and are still fishing. Clean the ice out of my hole and rub my lucky rabbit foot on it (kidding about the rabbit foot) every hour or whatever it takes judging by the weather.

[BlueDuck]

Lots of things can find their way down a ten inch hole......