Need Shelter Help

[Guest]

I'm going up to Winnie this weekend but don't have a portable. Does anyone have any ideas on how to turn a tarp and a 4'x8' sheet of plywood into a make shift portable for the weekend. Looking for a little bit of comfort. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Broke College Student

[Guest]

Lump,

E-mail me, I might be able to help you out

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Paul
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[Guest]

Just bring a couple of 5 foot long stakes with you and drill holes(not all the way through) in a U- shape and face the bottom of the U toward the wind. Put the stakes in the holes, fill with the ice chips to secure them, and wrap the tarp around the stakes to serve as a windbreak and leave the plywood home. You will be amazed at how the windbreak will minimize your exposure and let your heater warm the area to the point you can fish without gloves.
I grew up in Hibbing and when we hiked into a lake, this was the shelter of choice because all you had to bring was the tarp, and cut brush for the stakes once you got where you were going.

[Guest]

Believe it or not, you could be cited for failure to register your makeshift shelter. I was told in no uncertain terms by one officer that even if you haul a cardboard box onto the ice for shelter, you had better get a license.

Sounds strange, but I find it also strange that portables require licenses.

[Guest]

In your case the $12.50 for the license is probably cheaper then the sheet of plywood. You could just slap that on your tarp.

If I drag my fish trap out to the lake (because I have all my equipment in it) but don't flip over the top, do I need a license for it? I am esentially sitting in sled with built in seats. How about if I take the tarp off of it? Then all I have is a glorified sled.

Esentially you need to license a tarp. If it provides you 'shelter' from the elements you are supposed to license it. (Do I need a license for my coveralls?) I have heard of people fishing from their truck getting ticketed for not having a shelter license.

I think they need to change the law to require a license for any unattened shelter.

It used to be you either sat on the ice with a 5 gallon bucket, or you had a 'permanent' shelter. Now there is a huge area in between with the different portables.

kgm

[Surface Tension]

keep it to 2 sides and you wont need a shelter lic. Drill 3 holes in a triangel shape 5 feet apart, stop before you go through. Put a 2x4 in each hole and back fill with snow. Tie your tarp using the gromet to the 2x4. Wrap the tarp around the middle 2x4. Tie the tarp to the last 2x4.

[Guest]

I find this conversation to be quite entertaining for the simple reason that I can relate to it. Us poor college students are lucky to have a lawn chair to sit on at the time tuition is due. I beleive students should have license discounts similar to senior citizens. I once found myself trying to construct a makeshift shelter out of my otter sled.

[Guest]

Surface Tension is right, if it has three sides, and a roof, you have to license it. Two sides, no roof, no license required. I used to have no portable either, and I've done almost everything that has been mentioned. I used to have only a sled, and when I'd go, I'd take a couple peices of 2x2, and use them to prop up the sled at an angle, and sit behind that. My girth outgrew the sled...Ha!! I now have a portable.

Set the Hook!!

Lundman

[red bricks]

How did your portable work out this weekend? I did the tumbleweed thing in my portable this weekend. Thank god the Vexilar can't fit down an ice hole. I fished Winni on Sunday nothing was biting near me. I can't imagine that much fishing was done on Winni on Saturday. Better weather coming!!!