04-10-2006, 05:37 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Welcome aboard. Good report with a couple of good object lessons.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]1. If you are using a Kastmaster as weight or just as an attractor, remove the hooks. Saves on potential for angler injury and also saves fish that would otherwise be lost when the trebles hook on the bottom of the ice hole. I make gold and silver glittered sinkers to do the same thing (see pic)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]2. Always have a lip gripper sitting where you can do a one handed grab while fighting a big fish. If you are patient, and get the fish worn out enough to get it up into the hole, you can usually grap the lower jaw with the gripper without having to pull too hard on the line. Here's a copied pic from the Cabelas site, with several models of the Berkeley grippers, favorites with a lot of members both for boating and ice fishing.[/#0000ff]
![[Image: i014820sq05.jpg]](http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Item/01/48/20/i014820sq05.jpg)
[#0000ff]Sorry about the wound, and losing the fish too. Talk about double jeopardy. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]1. If you are using a Kastmaster as weight or just as an attractor, remove the hooks. Saves on potential for angler injury and also saves fish that would otherwise be lost when the trebles hook on the bottom of the ice hole. I make gold and silver glittered sinkers to do the same thing (see pic)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]2. Always have a lip gripper sitting where you can do a one handed grab while fighting a big fish. If you are patient, and get the fish worn out enough to get it up into the hole, you can usually grap the lower jaw with the gripper without having to pull too hard on the line. Here's a copied pic from the Cabelas site, with several models of the Berkeley grippers, favorites with a lot of members both for boating and ice fishing.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Sorry about the wound, and losing the fish too. Talk about double jeopardy. [/#0000ff]
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