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Ice Angel anchors

ted4887

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Just curious if anyone has ever used these or something similar. Just trying to save weight and avoid bringing the cordless drill with me when I head out fishing. Seems like they'd work pretty well, but looking for someone with some experience with them.

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The Ice Angel does it's job well, and quickly with no screwing around.

To secure them to the shack, I recommend the use of quick adjusting flat straps to the center of the hub. Some choose to use budgies, but I find the straps more secure and useful. I allow the hub to maintain the end to end tension on the Angels so all forces will equal out in the wind. They can more easily be adjusted once set as well.

One Ice Angel set into a shallow auger hole on each apposing end with equal pressure pulls the hub down firmly and securely. The set of two Ice Angels will do very well on most size hub shacks. One can add the screw in anchors provided with the shack on the inside as needed in extreme wind conditions if you so wish. Four Ice Angels (two sets) will hold the largest hub shacks in very rough wind conditions with ease.

They also serve to produce an instant anchor point on the ice if you get an ATV stuck and need a instant point to wench yourself out from. Just auger a shallow hole, set the angels wings tightly into the walls, hook it up to the wench and let it pull you out.

Very handy and useful on ice gadgets.

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I picked up some early this season. They work slick, better than trying to screw anchors into the ice. Makes sense too, every time you setup you already have the auger running.

Only drawback I see is they don't really work on early ice. You need a good 10" of ice before you can make a deep enough hole to hold the anchor AND to prevent water from seeping in.

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No unfortunately Gander does not carry them. But many sporting retail competitors do. A Google will locate them preaty quickly.

RedRock has the Digger Ice Angels as do Reeds and Mills Fleet, but not sure if Thorn Bro's do or not? They can also be ordered from the Digger Anchor web site and/or you will likely see the guys from Digger Anchor Co. selling them at the various regional trade shows this winter.

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I picked up some early this season. They work slick, better than trying to screw anchors into the ice. Makes sense too, every time you setup you already have the auger running.

Only drawback I see is they don't really work on early ice. You need a good 10" of ice before you can make a deep enough hole to hold the anchor AND to prevent water from seeping in.

A tip on early ice when it has not achieved much ice depth yet is to set them out at an angle to increase the pitch angle to the hub. The wings do not require a lot of ice to bite, but the angle may be nearly flat to the ice to achieve it...get my drift?

I can set the wings into 3" to 4 " of ice at a more radical angle. It's trickier to keep the hole dry and not cut through, but it can be done. A longer tether line is needed obviously. As the ice thickens I go to the short flat straps.

I had even more frustration with the screw in anchors at first ice. The screw in anchors also have there limits on early thin ice, they tend to pull or wiggle loose and pop out when wet.

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