I don’t have an auger yet and when my friend opened them he used a gas powered auger. It’s a pain to lug it around on return trips and at times I’m solo. Will a couple sticks in the hole keep it from refreezing?
Redrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
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I don’t have an auger yet and when my friend opened them he used a gas powered auger. It’s a pain to lug it around on return trips and at times I’m solo. Will a couple sticks in the hole keep it from refreezing?
Redrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
4 Meinungen für “Do any ice fisherman use the same ice holes they made on previous outings?”
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Chadd sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 8:55 pmNo, a couple sticks won’t do it. Sometimes holes start freezing back up as you’re fishing in them. Depends a lot on the temperature, I guess, but at the surface water freezes up quite quickly. That’s why you need a dipper. I have seen guys use plastic buckets, 2-liter soda bottles, or a square of plywood to keep holes clean while they’re fishing a different hole, but never to keep a hole open between trips. With snow and wind and very cold temperatures, even a bucket could freeze solid into a hole, and unless you marked the place with a flag or something you might not even find it next time.
Augering previously drilled holes works — sometimes you find a place that’s been drilled numerous times and if you’ve got a hand auger that’ll save you a couple minutes of cranking. I don’t see what’s so hard about pulling a sledge with your gas auger on it — you have to haul in everything else. But probably the best you can do is try to keep it open with a bucket or somesuch, mark it well, and auger it out with the hand auger when you don’t have the gas-powered unit.
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Devann sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 9:10 pmif u dont want to use a ice auger get yourself a ice chisel
way lighter and u can get short ones that will fit in your bucket
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ice fish like every day
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da.yooper57 sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 9:25 pmNo. If you cover the hole with a five gallon bucket top and then pile lots of snow on top of that it will freeze a lot less. If you get a six inch hand auger it will go through the ice like butter and you will catch a lot more fish if you are mobile.
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winterrules sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 10:10 pmRedrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
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I don’t have an auger yet and when my friend opened them he used a gas powered auger. It’s a pain to lug it around on return trips and at times I’m solo. Will a couple sticks in the hole keep it from refreezing?
Redrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
4 Meinungen für “Do any ice fisherman use the same ice holes they made on previous outings?”
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Chadd sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 8:49 pmNo, a couple sticks won’t do it. Sometimes holes start freezing back up as you’re fishing in them. Depends a lot on the temperature, I guess, but at the surface water freezes up quite quickly. That’s why you need a dipper. I have seen guys use plastic buckets, 2-liter soda bottles, or a square of plywood to keep holes clean while they’re fishing a different hole, but never to keep a hole open between trips. With snow and wind and very cold temperatures, even a bucket could freeze solid into a hole, and unless you marked the place with a flag or something you might not even find it next time.
Augering previously drilled holes works — sometimes you find a place that’s been drilled numerous times and if you’ve got a hand auger that’ll save you a couple minutes of cranking. I don’t see what’s so hard about pulling a sledge with your gas auger on it — you have to haul in everything else. But probably the best you can do is try to keep it open with a bucket or somesuch, mark it well, and auger it out with the hand auger when you don’t have the gas-powered unit.
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Devann sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 9:26 pmif u dont want to use a ice auger get yourself a ice chisel
way lighter and u can get short ones that will fit in your bucket
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ice fish like every day
wen theres ice -
da.yooper57 sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 10:11 pmNo. If you cover the hole with a five gallon bucket top and then pile lots of snow on top of that it will freeze a lot less. If you get a six inch hand auger it will go through the ice like butter and you will catch a lot more fish if you are mobile.
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winterrules sagt:
05.October, 2009 um 10:55 pmRedrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
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05.October, 2009 um 8:58 pm
No, a couple sticks won’t do it. Sometimes holes start freezing back up as you’re fishing in them. Depends a lot on the temperature, I guess, but at the surface water freezes up quite quickly. That’s why you need a dipper. I have seen guys use plastic buckets, 2-liter soda bottles, or a square of plywood to keep holes clean while they’re fishing a different hole, but never to keep a hole open between trips. With snow and wind and very cold temperatures, even a bucket could freeze solid into a hole, and unless you marked the place with a flag or something you might not even find it next time.
Augering previously drilled holes works — sometimes you find a place that’s been drilled numerous times and if you’ve got a hand auger that’ll save you a couple minutes of cranking. I don’t see what’s so hard about pulling a sledge with your gas auger on it — you have to haul in everything else. But probably the best you can do is try to keep it open with a bucket or somesuch, mark it well, and auger it out with the hand auger when you don’t have the gas-powered unit.
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05.October, 2009 um 9:43 pm
if u dont want to use a ice auger get yourself a ice chisel
way lighter and u can get short ones that will fit in your bucket
References :
ice fish like every day
wen theres ice
05.October, 2009 um 9:50 pm
No. If you cover the hole with a five gallon bucket top and then pile lots of snow on top of that it will freeze a lot less. If you get a six inch hand auger it will go through the ice like butter and you will catch a lot more fish if you are mobile.
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05.October, 2009 um 10:29 pm
Redrilling an old hole is one of the best ways to bend an auger shaft. It’s easier and safer to drill a new hole next to the old one. Using a chisel to reopen old holes can often save a lot of time. In the spring when the ice starts to soften I don’t bring my auger. I can chisel through spring ice faster than I can start the auger. If you are just getting into ice fishing consider a hand auger. You can buy a good one for under $100. With sharp blades it will go through 2 feet of ice in under a minute.
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