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What would you like someone to invent for ice fishing?

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ddsbyday Community Regular

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Air plugs. I have 4 and like them very much. Must be a patent issue because they are hard to find. They work well. They want to fly out of the hole when you inflate them but if you get all the air out before you sink them they are the ticket. Your hole gets a little smaller but saves a lot of drilling.

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This is not so much an invention as a service. How about a local contractor that I could store my portable house with. I give him a call and he goes out, plows a road or a spot, places my house and gives me the GPS coords. Almost like up on Mille Lacs, except the guy works multiple lakes in an area. I'd pay for that! And, yes, if the house is unoccupied overnight, it would need a license. Probably get stolen, too!

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

+1!!

Just saw an adapter in the latest Cabela's catalog ... $20 ... refills disposable 1# from 20# ... they also state a caveat that DOT 'er someone don't allow transporting such a refilled 1# whistle

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how about a way to make ice when it is above freezing. take some long pipes, run some liquid nitrogen through them, and spend a nice summer day on the ice. i suppose it might upset a chapter of peta who is concerned about the reproduction interference of a rare form of chiggers.

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sigosaur,

Check out the " Ice Fishermans Hand Sled"

It pull's like mothing and is small to load in the car.

I appreciate the thought ... but I picked up a couple smaller sleds the other day ... been too cold to try 'em out, yet :-/

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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.

LOL!

That made me chuckle...Thanks! grin

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Was thinking if you could run the lines around the holes to keep them from freezing. Wonder if a camper gas hot water heater and there 12 volt pump would be enough cerculate the water and be able to keep up? Bottom-bouncer, how did he make he's? what matterials did he use?

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I dont know the exacts but he is in the heating cooling business. I know that it has a small boiler with u pump it is basically like your residential in floor heating system has the lines running in a zig zag pattern. he has piece of ply wood then a piece of like 2"foam that the line is embeded into and the another piece of plywood. I personally think that the whole system sucks. he try's to justify how great it is cause he can sit in his house barefooted and fish. pretty sure I can do the same with forced air. For me the big draw back is that generator has to be running all the time. last year he and some of his cronies took it up to red lake first hour or so there the generator sent the rod thru the case. so he got to run to deer river or grand rapids to buy a new one. just seems like a hassle

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I bet that generator is loud too. I was trying to fiqure out a way how you could use 12 volt pumps and gas water heater to heat the shack. But maybe I'm wasting my money and time. Be cool if it worked and kept your ice holes open.

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