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Rookie question on spearing


TV BOY

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Excited to try spearing this winter!!! Just got a new to me 6x8 skid house. It is set with 5 catch covers, The one end is framed to make a spear hole. The size of the area is 20"x48" . My question... is that big enough? I don't want to cut the floor and find out that it isn't deep enough, especially when the ice gets thick...

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I think its a bit narrow myself i have a 2.5x3.5 in my house but i want a big hole in my house, for some im sure thats just fine, grab a bucket and sit over it for a few minutes and try and judge what you think. i know guys that spear out of much smaller holes

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Your spear hole will work but as you said when the ice gets thicker it will become more difficult to see off to the sides with out a lot of chiseling on the sides of the hole. I have speared out of a house with a hole simalr to the size your talking of and it wasnt that bad I did spear a few pike but it was a relief to get back into my house and look down the bigger hole.

I prefer a spear hole that is bigger than 28 inches or wider most of mine are 30 -32.

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Ha...

Now tell him the real truth.....

That is fine as a starter house, after a year or less of darkhouse spearing you will be hooked and have 2 or 3 houses by the end of the following year....

Welcome to the addiction TV Boy!!!

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This one makes 6, but is the first spear house. My wife thinks I have a major problem, since I can only be in one at a time smile Going to try selling a few this fall

Don't sell any... just give her the classic response...

So how many pairs of shoes do you have???? laugh

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I agree with mrklean, if you have room to enlarge the hole i would...36" would be the ticket (imo). call me lazy, but if the house is already there, i would rather cut out the existing hole than move the house to first cut an oversized one and move it back into place...especially when it's butt cold and it's frozen to the lake.

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Here is the hole.... as big as the framing would allow

Looks great and once you figure out you love spearing you will figure out a way to make the hole bigger and get rid of those round things. grinBy the way what are those round things. laugh

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TVBOY, when you paint the floor and walls black, make sure your paint doesn't eat the foam away. Once I built a nice spear house and bought some good enamel paint. The next day I had to redo the foam, and buy some cheap latex paint. Your house will work fine until your wife needs a new pair of shoes...ha ha. I've got 4 spear houses and still not satisfied. The perfect spear house might not be made yet is my responce because my wife doesn't buy many shoes.

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Merkman, you are probably right. Years ago, my fatherinlaw would always have the spearhouse ready when I'd get up to Brainerd. I really miss him. The older I get, the harder it is to get everything set up.

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Was going to put a coat of polyurethane on the floor, then carpet over the top. I would assume one gets the floor more wet spearing? also, how critical are black walls if the windows are blacked out?

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