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Walking out - your set up?


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Same sled pretty much the same early-late ice setup minus the heater and hub as I pretty much snot nose it on a folding camp chair! 

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Looks nice. I only take my heater when pulling the clam. If I am keeping fish I bring an old tidy cat litter container to put the fish in. Padded seat goes on top of my clam bucket and I usually have just a towel spare glove and a little coffee and a water bottle in it. Catch a keeper and I put it in the tidy cat bucket by the sled. Bucket got pretty heavy yesterday and didn’t want my arm to stretch out. ? I hate the camp chairs. The blue bucket is a great height and the pad is comfy. 

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carpeted floors In you clam...……………...nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I throw everything I need in my pull over.  

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8 hours ago, geliason said:

My addition is that I use an old deer stand harness for the rope. That way I can wrap it across my chest and keep my hands free.


I could use a harness and tie it even lower if it balances the pull better.  I did also save my ski poles from my set I just gave away just for walking out on slick ice.  The two combined might work real nice especially pulling through slush.

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For Panfishing -I use  a otter sled.  In goes K-Drill, small insulated  soft cooler with 2 extra batteries (key two of the disposable handwarmers to keep batteries warm in soft cooler)  6 gallon bucket with lid small scoop tucked into pail.  My Clam storage bag that holds my Vexilar , it has  2  side pockets for all my jig boxes nice bottom compartment for all my plastic storage. And I bring two rods usually  a trip wire and noodle rod in a small breakdown shotgun case

For eyes basically the same setup only switch out jig boxes replaceing  with walleye spoons raps etc. Another breakdown case with a dead stick  and jigging rod. Sometimes I' ll throw a Finiky Fooler in tub and set it up if doing a lot of hole hopping.  For bait I carry a few live minnows in a bigger bait puck and pre cut some  heads at home and put them in a Ziploc baggie before going. Lightening the load is definitely the key especially the older we get.   

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It's the second smallest otter sled. I have a 5lb propane with sunflower, vexilar, small bait cooler, folding chair, lantern and hand auger under the cover. I strap the hub house and a grain shovel on the top.

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Nice idea Chris on cutting the heads at home. Saves space and not so much gunk under my thumbnail. ? gotta do it. 

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Its a heap of gear, but i usually dont walk to far out from the boat launch.  Also drilled a lot of holes along the edge of the sled for putting bungees wherever i need them.

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Looking for perch set up. They didn’t like it. Lol

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8 minutes ago, eyeguy 54 said:

Looking for perch set up. They didn’t like it. Lol

 

"lottsa" daylight left, giving up already

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1 hour ago, Tom Sawyer said:

 

"lottsa" daylight left, giving up already

 

I recognize that parking lot. He has a long ride home before the game!  ?

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6 hours ago, Bucketcastle said:

Its a heap of gear, but i usually dont walk to far out from the boat launch.  Also drilled a lot of holes along the edge of the sled for putting bungees wherever i need them.

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One suggestion I would make. I use a little red and white igloo cooler as a minnow bucket.  You can stack stuff on it and it wouldn't break. Even had it fall off a few times going up and down hills and other then losing a little water which I refilled from the first hole drilled.  Lost no minnows.  ?

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I gave up walking/pulling. Use my 170# riding SnoDog pulling a Smitty sled loaded according to event. On 5" ice Saturday.

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2 hours ago, leech~~ said:

 

I recognize that parking lot. He has a long ride home before the game!  ?

I know I do ? 

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26 minutes ago, IceHawk said:

I know I do ? 

 

Ok say, and I'll let you know if your right? ?

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That would be to easy ? How about you meet me in Richmond with a sharp auger with good blades couple perch Rods a blindfold I can put on  you and we will go  and shred some ice on it. ? ? Was there Saturday and it wasn't a easy time grind grind grind. Those perch are a tough nut to crack sometimes. 

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Talked to a guy that smoked em a couple weeks ago. Nothing since. 

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Two scoops of fat heads free if anybody in area wants them. ?

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2 minutes ago, eyeguy 54 said:

Two scoops of fat heads free if anybody in area wants them. ?


Put them in an overpriced Engel bait cooler and you could keep em for a month.  You going fishing again in the next month? ?

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2 minutes ago, Wanderer said:


Put them in an overpriced Engel bait cooler and you could keep em for a month.  You going fishing again in the next month? ?

 

? or how about a 8 buck bubble box and a 5 gallon bucket 

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4 hours ago, Tom Sawyer said:

 

? or how about a 8 buck bubble box and a 5 gallon bucket 


SO not as cool. ?

 

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9 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

Two scoops of fat heads free if anybody in area wants them. ?

Home bait tank is what you need.

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