Clam Arctic Warrior

[JbuZZo]

Anyone use these? I picked one up yesterday, thinking of running a 42" Fenwick ice rod (MH) off of it using dead smelt or herring. Any tips, trick or advise for running big dead bait off of it? Seems big live bait will trip the flag every time base off of the pivot point and sensitivity...am I wrong on this? I'm thinking I won't be able to have the bail open, but cranked to the left, set super light and when the flag trips, open bail, tighten drag, fight fish per instructions. 

looking for feedback/pros/cons to this tool.

thanks guys.

[Hoey]

With live bait giving you false trips, then trim their tail a bit.

[cold one sd]

I like to leave the bail open, pull the line back to the butt end of the rod and wrap a rubber band over it to hold it. When a fish hits it pulls the rod tip down and pulls the line out from under the rubber band. All you have to do is close the bail and reel the fish in. The number of wraps of the rubber band determines the tension on the line. 

[JbuZZo]

Nice, thanks for the replies guys, keep em coming... Fired up the youtube and watched Babe Winkleman's crew fishing out of Rocky Point with the Arctic Warriors with live suckered. They were getting false flags and added a couple small ice buster slip bombers to minimize the false flag trips... 

[Cooter]

I looked at these and figured sure on deadbait but not so much for larger livebait as mentioned, sounds like there are ways of minimizing false flags?