Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 07:12 PM
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You are not going to get much help IMHO. It's fairly typical if you are putting them to much use.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 07:25 PM
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It's in how a person stores them in the off season also . Eskimo makes replacements maybe they do to .
Simplify your methods to the point of perfection.
Become fast,efficient & effective.
The real "SECRET" to successful trapping.
KEEP IT SIMPLE!
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 07:46 PM
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Still beats barebacking it on a 5 gallon bucket. Did that for many years. In some nasty weather.
Brad
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 08:23 PM
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Nessmuck is that an Ice Cube? If it is I have had mine 12 years still goimg strong though I did have to fix the poles by re glueing them in the hubs
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 08:38 PM
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I have no idea what y'all talking about
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/10/18 08:47 PM
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Nessmuck is that an Ice Cube? If it is I have had mine 12 years still goimg strong though I did have to fix the poles by re glueing them in the hubs It's a KillZone.....bought it on line 159.00 some time ago....love it.....and I made my own anchoring system...wind tested and everything !!
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/10/18 08:49 PM
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I have no idea what y'all talking about Yah need ice ...to understand what we're cooking !
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 08:56 PM
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I have ice ..... its in the freezer. Strawberry and vanilla flavor ...... still no idea what y'all on about
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: Scuba1]
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01/10/18 09:07 PM
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I have ice ..... its in the freezer. Strawberry and vanilla flavor ...... still no idea what y'all on about So yah Nevah been ice fishing before ?
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/10/18 09:38 PM
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Get a hub style shack...this one is going on 10 years I bet...light weight ,folds up into a carry bag ,sets up in under a minute I'd only recommend a hub if your fishing out of a truck and don't move much. It's not uncommon for me to move a half dozen or more times a day if I'm not on the fish. And sometimes it will be a 10 mile plus move where the roads aren't plowed. I'd recommend a flip over to the hard core user running with snowmobiles or ATVs. This location is about 12 miles from the nearest landing, well a landing in the US. No roads plowed there, dont let the lack of snow fool anyone, it was late March.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 09:53 PM
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Nice set up Steve ! ....we walk and drag Smitty sleds onto the lakes...set up the house and start drinking...drill some holes in tight on shore for rainbows and jig out of the house for lakers.......if it Nice out....will drill some more holes with in walking distance from the shack and try our luck.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/10/18 10:22 PM
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So yah Nevah been ice fishing before ?
Nope nevah
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/10/18 10:31 PM
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So yah Nevah been ice fishing before ?
Nope nevah All you do is drill a hole with your auger...clean out the hole of slush...set up your chair....and put a smelt on you hook...and lower it down the hole ...you can use a jig stick (as pictured) or a small short 18 inch spinning rod...Drink Beeah and wait for a bite...on the nasty days we go inside the warm shack,heated with a buddy heater and a Radio ,for some music...very relaxing .
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/10/18 11:02 PM
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Bought a fragile aegis, at the end of 2015, used it last year and this year, my Windows are starting to crack and I am starting to see light in spots through the fabric of the shelter, anyone have similar problems, how is their customer service, and at the end of ice season I have taken the fabric off the sled and stored it indoors I have a Frabill Predator that's 11 years old. I called customer service and was able to get a new canvast but it was $400. Expensive but cheaper than a new shack.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/11/18 08:30 PM
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I have both a hub and an otter flip over. The flip overs rock!!!!
Hubs have frequent pole failures. And the wind catches them like a kite! Almost lost mine trying to setup on tuesday. Sure u can ice screw with a drill. Reality is drill batteries die quickly in the cold!!! I was chasing lakers tuesday withthe hub. Wind blew hard enough it busted the straps!!! I had to put my hip boots on ,to read this....:)
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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I have both a hub and an otter flip over. The flip overs rock!!!!
Hubs have frequent pole failures. And the wind catches them like a kite! Almost lost mine trying to setup on tuesday. Sure u can ice screw with a drill. Reality is drill batteries die quickly in the cold!!! I was chasing lakers tuesday withthe hub. Wind blew hard enough it busted the straps!!! I agree with him, I had a killzone hub style before I bought the flip over, the hub was ok, but it was a pain, couldn't fish in the wind, poles broke, where with the flip over I can fish in any weather, and it has been more durable than the killzone
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/11/18 10:52 PM
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I have both a hub and an otter flip over. The flip overs rock!!!!
Hubs have frequent pole failures. And the wind catches them like a kite! Almost lost mine trying to setup on tuesday. Sure u can ice screw with a drill. Reality is drill batteries die quickly in the cold!!! I was chasing lakers tuesday withthe hub. Wind blew hard enough it busted the straps!!! I agree with him, I had a killzone hub style before I bought the flip over, the hub was ok, but it was a pain, couldn't fish in the wind, poles broke, where with the flip over I can fish in any weather, and it has been more durable than the killzone What were you anchoring it to the ice with..?
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/12/18 02:06 AM
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I have ice ..... its in the freezer. Strawberry and vanilla flavor ...... still no idea what y'all on about So yah Nevah been ice fishing before ? I have, but never in a "house". We'd just chop a hole in the ice, and sit on an overturned bucket. Figure this must be some millennial trend like waxing your privates, LOL.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/12/18 02:23 AM
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Yup...when it howling out on the lake....we find a cove to fish in....or try another day. It's recreational fishing for me....not to feed my family...so I watch the weather and pick my spots.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/12/18 02:10 PM
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I consider myself a pretty avid outdoorsman. I have hunted, trapped and fished my whole life and have enjoyed every minute of it. I have never tired it but for some reason sitting out over the ice waiting on a fish to swim to me just does not look like my cup of tea. I am sure it is a northern thing that us southerners just cannot grasp.
If I put my wife inside a high fence will her rack get bigger ?
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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Well. You either fish on ice. Or you dont fish at all....
Buddy texted me a nice 15lb laker from this morning just to rub it in i should have taken the day off!
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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Well, we don't have NASCAR, so we ice fish LMAO.....I would rather sit on a frozen lake,fishing out of a 10 inch hole... than watch cars make lefts hand turns for 3 hours....
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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I just fish on nice days.
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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Another pop up dies. Buddy who was out laker fishing today busted poles on his clam.........
And i quote ‘Broke my ********* shack today, 3 poles snapped’, Says ice fishing buddy... Why are all your hubs breaking down ? You guys getting all gooned up and making believe to be MMA fighters in the Hub ?
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/13/18 12:37 AM
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Another pop up dies. Buddy who was out laker fishing today busted poles on his clam.........
And i quote ‘Broke my ********* shack today, 3 poles snapped’, Says ice fishing buddy... Why are all your hubs breaking down ? You guys getting all gooned up and making believe to be MMA fighters in the Hub ? Because the wind blows. I fish a lake that the wind can come for 35 miles. I have a hub and if it's blowing 20 mph, plus it will stay home. When it starts blowing 25 30 mph I fish in the hard house.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
[Re: TrapperJohn97]
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01/13/18 12:52 AM
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We have lake Winnipesaukee here in NH , 21 miles and 212 feet deep...like Trapper Les....I fish on nice days.
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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I was at work ness! It didnt sound particularly windy either. Not like tuesday. I know many fair weather people with busted poles in hib style tents, goes all the way back to matrix 360 blind days, nothings changed!. I guess we just fish a little more than most .
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Re: Frabill ice shanty
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01/13/18 09:28 AM
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I don't fish alot in the he winter anymore like I used to because of time constraints. Maybe 20 30 days on the ice is all anymore. If I only fished nice days it would be hard to get out what with everything else that goes on. I try to avoid the bitter cold like we have now but that is about it.
If the guys to the west of me didn't fish windy days they'd never fish lol.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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