get that stuff off your back and in a sled

sorry can't help you on bars , I have never owned one not home made.

I usually use a sled but I'm trying out this setup since it's pretty light and I also don't have to drag a sled. It's an Andy Weiser beaver bag with a 5 or 6 gallon square bucket in the middle and it has just enough room on the sides for my axe handle and shovel. I can fit probably 1.5 dozen stoploss victors in the bucket and then I use a carabiner to keep the chains out of the mess. It worked good today.

If you're on ice, you can drag a sled a lot easier than carrying a pack unless you had to walk through a lot of rough ground to get to the ice. Even with the drain hole on that bag, if you ever go under the ice with that thing on, its gonna make it a lot harder to get back out because it will act like a drift sock. Put the bag in the sled

I usually use a sled but I'm trying out this setup since it's pretty light and I also don't have to drag a sled. It's an Andy Weiser beaver bag with a 5 or 6 gallon square bucket in the middle and it has just enough room on the sides for my axe handle and shovel. I can fit probably 1.5 dozen stoploss victors in the bucket and then I use a carabiner to keep the chains out of the mess. It worked good today.




It wouldnt have worked good if that water was over your head. If you think today scrambled your brain, add in going over your head. Between the shock of the water temp and the however many pounds strapped to your back plus filling up a set if waders with an ice cold 60-80 pounds, youre screwed. Get that thing off your back. Ice picks always. Every year seems like some idiot dies somewhere around the tri-state area on early ice and somehow its always an “experienced” ice fisherman who “knows” the ice. I cant think of a much more avoidable way to die other than going through ice.