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Slush sux!!!


Bernie Keefe

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Only the lucky ones get to deal with it? Ok maybe not. On an average trip I drill over 50 holes and make 7-8 major moves in a day. When the slush rears its ugly head, I take a few steps to insure I have fewer problems. First of all I make sure my boots have a fresh coat of mink oil. If I use a pull sled, make sure the hitch is located as low on the sled as possible and I load my gear towards the back. These two items help my sled "surf" over the top instead of plowing through it. When I pull into a spot I do a circle with my snow machine and park on my tracks. What are some other tricks you guys use to navigate through the slush?

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Only the lucky ones get to deal with it? Ok maybe not. On an average trip I drill over 50 holes and make 7-8 major moves in a day. When the slush rears its ugly head, I take a few steps to insure I have fewer problems. First of all I make sure my boots have a fresh coat of mink oil. If I use a pull sled, make sure the hitch is located as low on the sled as possible and I load my gear towards the back. These two items help my sled "surf" over the top instead of plowing through it. When I pull into a spot I do a circle with my snow machine and park on my tracks. What are some other tricks you guys use to navigate through the slush?

Sounds like you have most of it covered by moving most of the gear to the back of the pull sled, doing a circle and parking on the track. Keeping the speed up a little more helps also if you get into it and make big sweeping turns with the speed up if you want to try and get back out of the area. Also, if your going into an area to fish that no other sled tracks has gone to follow. You may try and unhook the pull sled and do a speed run through the area you want to try fishing to see if there is any bad slush, that way you can keep the speed up and hit the gas even more without the pull sled pulling you down. I have been in some very ugly spots out in the middle of no where a few times. frown

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#1 thing I do if there's slush is ditch the fish house/pull sled. Those suckers are like pulling an anchor around and if it's as bad as you say, then it's going to fill up with water and any gear in there will get soaked.

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