My name is Ken Eastman, and --from Wildlife Habitat Consultants and we are here today to talk to you about different stuff, different rods and reels techniques, and different equipment that we use to ice-fish here with. One in my hand, I happened to have here is kind of the basics, to be honest with you, it is nothing but a piece of wood slide out, with the screw put on it with some lane wrapped around it and that is what we used for years.
And of course we use to use this chisel, I tell we did the hole, chop the hole with chisel. And as you can see like I explained it earlier part of it, it is tapered on one end and you would just chop a hole, just keep chopping and then you would use this scoop right here. And this happens to be modernize, it use to be metal, and lot of them would cut them out of sheets of metal and they cut holes in them and all I did was force, just to scoot the ice, take the ice out just using that chisel. Then the water would run, so get the ice out, so you can get your hook down through. That was one method that we did, this still works very fine today, very fine today, but now what we have done, a lot of guys used tip ups over here. I just grabbed these, here there is two different kinds.
A lot of new guys are using live bait that is what they do. Very basic! This happens to be a polar tip up as you see here. Your line drops often here, and you find to get the depth you want, and then you set it very basically, you set it, there has to be a grove right here if you can see that, and as the fish takes it, it turns it and then your fly comes up right so it can run freely, that is a newer type. The old wood type, very simple, there were just forced 3 pieces of wood and it had a metal spool on them. You just open them up and cross out them, had a metal spool on them. And had a piece of spring loaded rod like, and with a fly going in the end and you put your bait down here.
Find the depth you want, and all it did, it came down as a trigger right there. All that rod all that Mel does is stay right in that rod, and so all you have to do when you get a bite, all that does is just trips it, that is all it does. Then you fish freely then you pull him in hand by hand. Those were some of the techniques, the older techniques. The newer one that a lot of us has gotten into, it is more for net-fishing. Especially if you are doing pan fish or even those --even Trouts, we're doing it.
These are just some of the different bibbits that we use, they call it bibbits. They could be different jigs that we use. We use these a lot for pan fish, very simple it is nothing but the miniature rod and reel, that's basically what it is. The only thing you need to do is if you buy an ice rod the grease is --a lot less greasing here than there is in the summer ones. Very simple, very simple to use, you --just like a rod and reel. Reel like it as more fan-national, we do a lot of catch and release stuff, then you can plate --you can use lighter lines this way, and that is one disadvantage of the hand lines you get a good fish on, it can't run with it. He is stuck right there, so you get a lot of break offs. Where this --see how the drag works? The drag can take a line out.
So it's just like in a summer time and you can fish very fan --especially if you are pan fishing or some of the other fish. Another thing we used is electronics. I wouldn't be on a water without my electronics. GPS is one of my major ones. I like --I'll drill a lot of holes, I use a fish finder, there is two different kinds. There is these LCD units and there is also a flasher they got. I like the LEDs the reason I like them, it is easier for me. I have to learned to do it through the years and I fish deeper water. The flashers work better there more --you can see a jig rough and down faster with them. These are going to be late to warm, the flashers are more instant as you pull your line up you can see it working, you can see the fish coming. Underwater cameras is great. I like using them, that is just another little tool we got.
Now you'll see stuff on the finder, you are not sure off and you'll see species on there, but you can drop your camera down and you can target. Well you know what is that is down there, it opens up a whole a new world. Then once you find an area or if you come on to a new lake, you can take a --you can hit the most, you can buy maps, you can buy GPS as they've maps in them. In a right GPS, you are looking for structure when you fish. And you can take that, that GPS and you can get on to that structure with it. It is just --those are the two great tools, really great tools. That is just some of the equipments that we use basic. Now we'll go out and see if we can catch some fish.
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