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Originally Posted by HuyFishin
nice contraptions haha
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Not pretty, but they work well. I'll take a picture of the "improved model", looks a lot more slick and you can fit a half dozen of them in a pail, but you do need to handline your fish.
The last day of last season I fished Slave Lake after work, when I showed up some guys were packing up, they told me they'd been getting bites but were having trouble hooking up. I set out my tip ups, and I think because the take felt more natural to the fish I had an excellent evening, no trouble hooking up at all. I kept two nice walleye and when I filleted them, both fish had shiners in their stomachs that had obviously been stripped off of other fishermen's hooks. I found it ironic that a chunk of scrap wood with a spool, a flag, and a piece of lumber strapping nailed to it worked so well where sensitive modern ice rods had failed.