ice fishing slammers and automatic jigging devices?

[chrome_junky]

any body have good plans for homemade slammer type devices or ice fishing jigging devices? i want to try to make some of my own and im not quite sure im understanding how they work. i also heard you can combine the two. any info will help thanks guys.
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[windriver]

Steelfisher made a really cool jawjacker he will have to explain how to make it. I am not mechanichally inclined.

I also met a guy from rigby who is making them out of machined aluminum and plastic. They are really nice and work slick. He said they will be in full production by Feb.

Look him up on the web under jawjacker.

Windriver
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[MMDon]

Several of the guys I ice fish with have made them. They simply use a battery power supply with a slow motor. From that motor extends a rod that has a u shape bend in it for the actuator. Every rotation lifts the rod and then drops it.
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[maghunter]

Here is a link to a video of one that I made a few years ago.
[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpAQoOZOhfA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpAQoOZOhfA[/url]

I've had pretty good luck with this. I've caught trout kokanee and perch with it, sometimes it out fishes the pole I am holding and jigging. One thing I forgot to mention on the video is that I glued a sinker on the clothspin to make it sink down the hole. Let me know if you need some more info on it.
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[MMDon]

Here is an idea for a Kokanee attractor. This guy has been working on it several years now. I saw them when they first came out but weren't available on the market. It's basically a metal rod on a motor that sticks down through the ice. The rod has metal silver flashers that rotate around the rod on wires looking like a school of Ice Kokes! Pretty clever but when I tried to purchase it last year it still wasn't available!

http://www.20belowproducts.com/
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[chrome_junky]

they look interesting and i would love t try to make some but im more looking for the ones that hold an ice fishing rod. but yours still looks awesome.
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[MMDon]

For the battery operated jigging motors the biggest thing seems to be that the rod is key slotted so that the motor picks up the U shaped rod on the upstroke and it free falls on the down stroke. This allows the natural fall of the jig. I've been watching these guys play with them for years now.

The Kokanee attractor isn't mine. It belongs to an inventor in Colorado I believe.

Don
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[I_FISH_HENERYS]

check out [url "http://ezjigger.com"]ezjigger.com[/url] they have a nice auto jigger. Iv'e used one for 8 or 9 years now. They work great.
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[maghunter]

I made one that will hold a fishing rod. Its basically the exact same design I just substituted the hinged piece of wood with a hinged piece of pvc that you could stick an ice rod into. The main problem I had is that the rat trap isn't powerful enough to lift a rod with a heavy reel on it. It works good with some of those super cheap ice reels that only weigh a few ounces. The other thing you could try is making some kind of pulley system that will give the rat trap enough power to lift any rod. I might have to work on that.

I've also experimented with some kokanee attractors. I haven't had a chance to experiment with them yet, but as soon as Ririe is frozen I am going to do some more research. The one I've made up is some 13" fish profiles cut out of stainless steel, then I've got four of them about 3 feet apart tied with some 40# test then they hang under a simple cross piece. You turn the cross piece around a few times and the profiles will spin slowly for about 5 minutes. So hopefully that will hold a school of kokes long enough to catch a bunch.

I've had a lot of fun making ice fishing gear, especially when they work.
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[MMDon]

Couldn't you put a spring under your PVC on a platform with the line being threaded around a trip wire. The fish pulls on the trip wire which then would come off of the hold down letting the spring do it's work. You wouldn't want to strong of a spring or it would launch your rod across the ice!

I've use lake trolls on a separate rod before but I do like the idea of spinning the metal fish and having them continue to move!
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[chrome_junky]

these are the ones im looking at [url "http://www.slammertipup.com/slammertipups.html"]http://www.slammertipup.com/slammertipups.html[/url]

they cant be to hard to make they sale the kits for you to make them. and they are pretty cheap maey i will order one and then build my own off of that.
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[ChrisTheFish]

I'd be careful with using the design, the guy who made them is pretty touchy on other people using the name "slammer." I looked it up a while ago on the internet and I could not find the diagram anywhere, and I'm assuming it is because the idea is patented.

I've been curious myself as to how it works, and would like to try making my own rendition.
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[chrome_junky]

i will buy one of his and then build my own with my own twists so its a slammer like product. im not gonna sale them i want them for my own use.
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[MMDon]

You can make as many as you like as long as you don't market them.

Their disclaimer is a bit negative. I'd have just stopped with the first line in red:

[center][#ff0000][size 3]Although they say, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" -
AVOID IMITATIONS OF SLAMMER TIP-UPS™ !!![/size][/#ff0000][/center]
[center][size 2] There are "take-offs" of the Slammer Tip-Up™ and our prototypes using trip-wires and other mechanisms to hold your rod tip and compress your rod unnaturally, WHICH IS DANGEROUS, that are being marketed as "slammers" or "just like a slammer" and even using parts of our original slogan - "Your Downrigger on Ice" - but THEY ARE NOT SLAMMERS. One of the rod-tip breaking devices being copied is known as a "Tripper", which is a close take-off of the poorly designed Whip-Up, which were hand-made to fit a particular solid fiberglass rod. Most, if not ALL, of these home-made and commercially produced contraptions have a plastic or metal tube rod holder that is NOT adjustable, could break in cold weather, and could freeze your rod butt in solid. The open coil design of the Slamco rod-holder (derived from the Jo-Boy ICE FISHING rod-holders) eliminates rod-holder "freeze-up", is adjustable, and absorbs torque applied by big fish cranking on your rod.[/size][/center]
[center][size 2]You're NOT GOING TO LOSE OR BREAK YOUR ROD and you're going to CATCH MORE FISH with a SLAMMER TIP-UP!!![/size][/center]
[center][size 2] THESE "COPY-CAT" DEVICES APPEARING HERE AND THERE, COMPRESS YOUR ROD UNNATURALLY, PUT EXCESSIVE PRESSURE ON THE ROD TIP, AND COULD CAUSE YOUR ROD OR TIP TO BREAK !!![/size][/center]

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[windriver]

This is similiar to the one that Steelfisher makes although not exactly the same. His seem to work pretty well and are easy to make.

The guy from Rigbys design is much more complicated but it is also adjustable for different tensions and lengths of rods. I hope he gets his marketed soon I know I will buy some of his design.

Windriver
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[MMDon]

The one problem I find with auto tip ups is that a steady lift on the rod catches a lot more fish than a sudden jerk. Just a thought!
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