12-20-2013, 08:34 PM
Go with a 6" nills. They're significantly more expensive than other hand augers but there's really no comparison in performance.
The powered augers are great except they're big, heavy, can run out of fuel and they're minimum $200 more than even the Nills. If you really want to use your drill Nills makes an adapter and a special auger for that, but I'm not convinced you'd be better off with that over just the hand powered one.
We had an eskimo gas auger and sold it for the Nills two years ago and we've never regretted it.
Unless you plan on catching large amounts of 10+ lb fish, don't worry about the 8", the 6" is plenty big!
As to the ice depth, Strawberry routinely gets more than 3' of ice on it by the end of the season!
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The powered augers are great except they're big, heavy, can run out of fuel and they're minimum $200 more than even the Nills. If you really want to use your drill Nills makes an adapter and a special auger for that, but I'm not convinced you'd be better off with that over just the hand powered one.
We had an eskimo gas auger and sold it for the Nills two years ago and we've never regretted it.
Unless you plan on catching large amounts of 10+ lb fish, don't worry about the 8", the 6" is plenty big!
As to the ice depth, Strawberry routinely gets more than 3' of ice on it by the end of the season!
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