What would you like someone to invent for ice fishing?

[Capt'nMorgan]

I use ice chaps when cutting holes the keep lower legs and top of boots dry. I don't use them to fish in

[DarthBaiter]

Originally Posted By: nate larson

Yeah i've seen the ice chaps but they looked kind of hokey...do you have them?

By hokey do you mean waterproof and padded... I do have them and they work great, keep you dry and comfortable!!! They cover your whole lower leg which is an added bonus!!!

I second that. They are great!

[croixflats]

Well I would like a simple but effective lure fastening system that does not require good eye vision and 10 fingers with good agility in 0 degree or colder weather with out effecting the presentation of said lure. Something on the lines of a super industrial strength compact battery or nuclear powered glue gun. Point, touch, glue and be done with it. And glows in the dark that's where the nuclear can come into play.

[sausageman]

Currently I'm trying to design a rod that holds your transducer at an angle so that when lowered to the bottom of the hole it can be rotated 360 degrees to scan for suspended fish. A poor mans sidefinder if you will. The transducer will be angled in the same direction as the handle. When the rod is being rotated, the handle points you in the direction of the suspended fish.

When the ice is thin I sometimes hold the transducer below the ice at a slight angle and scan for suspended fish. I had enough of cold hands and wet frozen sleeves.

[81Saluki]

What I really want is a portable Digital Video Recorder (DVR) that can be attached to my cam's RGB out ports and record video in either MPEG4 or MotionJPEG format so I can import the video to my computer, edit it, then upload it to the web. I've seen some cheap (Chinese-made) DVR units but everything I've seen records at really low resolutions.

[eyedawg]

have a concrete blanket or something similar made to throw over the house for when its cold or when planning on spending a few days on ice. should help with condensation also

[Mearnsquail]

I would like to see a 6 1/2' x 3' dia. cylinder capable of holding a human being in a liquid that would have the proper nutrients as well as enough disolved oxigen to keep a person in a state of suspended animation until around mid April. Or a transporter like the one on Star Trek so I could beam myself and my dog to Arizona anytime I wanted to. Other than that, I can't think of anything.

[MJ1657]

I built a sled out of 1" square tubing to pull my portable spear house out with an atv. I used regular downhill skis which pulls really easy. I would think a person could attach them type of skis to the bottom of their sleds they pull out and they would pull easier. Goodwill usually has skis.

[Gordie]

For a perm shack a hole cover that would seal the top of the hole so you could hook up a air pump and then you could push the water back down the hole so when you come back to fish you would turn a valve and let the water back in the hole.pull the cover off and your fishing.

[DonC]

Elwood maybe some kind of inflatable tube stuffed down the hole and inflated. When u come back let the air out and pull and u are fishing

For a perm shack a hole cover that would seal the top of the hole so you could hook up a air pump and then you could push the water back down the hole so when you come back to fish you would turn a valve and let the water back in the hole.pull the cover off and your fishing.

[broman]

For a perm shack a hole cover that would seal the top of the hole so you could hook up a air pump and then you could push the water back down the hole so when you come back to fish you would turn a valve and let the water back in the hole.pull the cover off and your fishing.

I've heard of others who dropped tin sleeves with bottoms (like a large coffee can into the hole. When they came back the next day they would lower a lantern into the hole to warm up the sleeve, then pull it out of the ice after a few minutes.

[jbird68]

Why don't somebody make a hybrid glove/mitten where the thumb and pointer finger have their own "finger" and the last 3 fingers have a smaller mitten section that you could put a hand warmer inside. I love the warmth of mittens but dislike the lack of freedom of the pointer finger.

Right now I use a pair of glomitts that have half-fingers and a mitt that covers them that can be pulled back so you can use your bare fingers for tying lines and baiting jigs. I've had them for years and just keep repairing them when the stitching comes loose. They aren't very waterproof though.

[jigginjim]

jbird go to an ARMY surplus store ask for artic mitts the army has. It has the pointer finger, plus the rest like can work as a mitten. I used them for winter camp in the guard, at -20* your point would get cold alone but but it in the mitt and your back in biz. Note: Pointer and bad back side is canvas, palm of mitt is leather.

[skee0025]

I'd like to see someone take a quiver magnet and convert it to a low temp heater that floats in your hole keeping it open.

[Gordie]

Elwood maybe some kind of inflatable tube stuffed down the hole and inflated. When u come back let the air out and pull and u are fishing

They do make these already and I know a couple of guys that use them well not any more because there a hassle

[silverbulletguy]

I got a pair of the hybrid glove/mittens for Christmas. Pretty nice. There is actually little dividers for the other 3 fingers but they all are in one big 3rd pouch. Not sure where they got them but my in-laws ordered them. HUNTWORTH is the brand. Blaze orange with a black pointer finger and palm patch. Supposedly water proof too.

[3littlemonsters]

I got a pair also..all leather (like choppers) they take a little getting used to, kinda feel like a lobster

[FrontenacPike]

Can someone invent a basement for my perm shack. I'd like it to be solid glass so I could watch the fish and maybe a little extra storage space.

[Gordie]

Can someone invent a basement for my perm shack. I'd like it to be solid glass so I could watch the fish and maybe a little extra storage space.

they call it a spearhole but it doesnt leave anyroom for storage

[GrumpyOldCrappie]

Last winter I ran out of propane for my lantern one night right in the middle of a big crappie bite- my 9 year old was with me and she was wearing one of those glow necklaces as we were walking out to the fish house. Well, when my lantern went out

we still had some light from her glow necklace...it gave me a great idea- why not put 3 small foam floats on it and drop it in the hole to give some light in the hole- long story short, I tried it, liked it and decided to make a nice stash of them ready to use when needed.

I'm now in the process of turning my so-called invention into

a retail product. It will be called Glo-Hole and my business partner and I are working on this venture with the hopes of getting them into a mass production and out on the market by next summer so they will be ready for winter fishing in 2010.

Now don't anyone go stealing my idea on me

Happy fishing!

[jigeye]

For us guys who do not own a 4-wheeler or snowmobile to pull our stuff out on the ice how about a wheeled device that you can attach the powerhead of your power auger to and you can hook your portable to that could pull it for you? Seems like I'm pulling my shack out every year til the middle of January so this would save my back.

Jigeye

[crappiekid]

Anyone wish that they did not have to deal with LP?? 100# 40# 30# 20# 10# 5# 1#. What if your empire and or Mr Buddy ran on Regular gas? Just filler up when going onto the lake. If you leave the house on the lake just bring a 5 gallon plastic jug along and fill er up!

What about perms where when you leave the house for a few days you could lower down a small rubber inflatable that seals the bottom of the hole under the ice. Inflate it. Pump water out of the hole onto the ice. Return to ice house, deflate AIR BAG and pull into house. The water would fill the hole. Walla no more drilling if you stay in that spot!

We also need a better way to pull perms across the lake without getting stuck. Super skis with hyfax runners???

Fish house on pontoons for summer use?? Sleep overnight. Cook out. Put a moon roof in it! WOW

[wildmanp]

A beautiful lady who cooks, cleans my ice house and need I say more?

[deadeye]

How about a proper, decent, designed to be refilable 1 lb propane tank? Even if it was 45$ it would be mint.

Um, maybe a beer/pop cooler that keeps beer/pop at the just before freezing temp. Heated/cooled as need be? That way when I fall asleep and the heater goes out I don't have cans of beer/pop exploding in the ice house scaring me half to death?

[merkman]

Anyone wish that they did not have to deal with LP?? 100# 40# 30# 20# 10# 5# 1#. What if your empire and or Mr Buddy ran on Regular gas? Just filler up when going onto the lake. If you leave the house on the lake just bring a 5 gallon plastic jug along and fill er up!

We had those in the Army.

They ran off gas, white gas, kerosene, fuel oil, diesel oil, naptha, jet fuel, coal or wood.

and they were vented outside.

They can really put out the heat!!

60K BTU!!!

You could even bake in them.

Here is a pic of one.

They were called M-1950 Yukon Stoves.