Top 5 Favorite icefishing accessories/toys.

[hawgTime]

I love my icefishing toys and thought it would be fun to find out your top 5 favorite icefishing accessories. I know it's hard to only pick 5, but do your best.

1. Fl-18
2. Croxton bag
3. Strike Sensors
4. Frabil Speed Shak
5. Jiffy

-- I expect one to lose it's rank as soon as I use my Princeton Tec Aurora headlamp.

hawgTime

[Seabass77]

My top 5

1. FL-18
2. Fish Trap Voyaguer
3. 28" walleye sweetheart
4. Home made tackle/rod station (in progress)
5. Lindy Stealth Slip Floats

Also in the mix are angel eye lures, my garmin 76, and gamehide insulated bibs and coat.

[rap]

1. fl-8(since i don't have an 18!)
2. fish trap guide
3. tip ups
4. 5 gallon buckets
5. heater

[Bigred70]

1. FL-18 (by far...new upgrade from FL-8SLT)
2. Fish Trap Scout
3. Strikemaster Mag 2000 auger
4. Buddy Heater
5. Snowmobile and/or 3-wheeler

[Steve Foss]

Well, some of what's been listed so far sounds like necessities to this modern ice fisherman. I never started out in the old cup-style hand auger, hand line and plastic bucket. Sorry.

My necessities:
1. FL8-SLT
2. Fish Trap II
3. Strikemaster XL-3000 10-inch
4. Black Cat heater
5. Round HT insulated 10-inch tip-ups

My fun/comfort:
1. Blue glow light
2. Plastic Coleman pop-up seat back
3. Leatherman multitool
4. Skis on bottom of Trap
5. Beer

But really, IS IT TIME YET?

[Guest]

FL8
Otter hut
Honda 450es
Aqua vu
Rock-n-reel

[nunzio]

My list for 30 years ago would be:
Sorel boots
Chopper mitts
Spud bar - (moving up to the spoon auger)
Ice dipper
Homemade jig stick - (Made out of a broom handle and nails)

My "modern" list:
Fl-18
Lazer Mag Ultra
Polaris ATV
Ice Buster Bobbers
6x8 Hardside ( in progress)

[hunt4food]

polaris ATV
Jiffy 30 Auger
Polar tip-ups
the largest shiners I can get my hands on
Homemade Venison jerky

[curt quesnell]

1. My Vexilar
2. That little light that gets the Angel
Eyes glowing
3. Angel Eye Minnows
4. My Strikemaster Auger
5. That lanyard I wear around my neck
with the clipper, forceps, and little
light deal that makes the Angel Eye
Minnows Glow

Curt Quesnell

[Guest]

Man, there are so many things that would like to put on this list. But if I had to choose:

1) Vexilar
2) OVS 500
3) Strike Master power auger
4) Fish Trap II
5) Heater
(honorable mention: GPS)

Ofcourse I'm gonna need rods and reels, a lantern for at night, and tackle and bait, but those are my favorite toys.

Good Fishin, Matt.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Fun post!

#1 Frabill XLTwin Ice house, re-worked with rod holders, heater holder ect....

#2 MC@X Aqua-vu, just because its fun!

#3 Fl-18, because it more fun!

#4 Hand made ultra light panfish rods made from Loomis blanks... Because its the most fun catching fish on quality stuff you have made yourself.

#5 Jiffy auger.. because drilling a hle by hand isn't so much fun!

[Wobbler]

I guess this is my order of most important as to what I need to ice fish with.

1. Strike Master Lazer 10".
2. My ice house.
3. My Sunflower Heater.
4. My Polar Lite poles with 6lb. test
5. My FL8.

(Honorable Mentions: cold beer, ice buster bobber, gold whistler, wobbler jig)

[Guest]

1. My Jigger DLX shelter (customized to my needs of course.)
2. My Buddy Heater
3. Lazer Mag auger
4. The Vex (we'd be blind otherwise!)
5. My Rock 'n Reel (don't need no bobbers anymore!)

second five:
1. the rack I built that slides into the hitch receiver on my truck. It carries my shelter and auger. (easy on/off.)(no room in truck.)
2. My solid graphite rod selection.
3. The rod rack in the back of my Tahoe Sport.(also home made)(up high and out of the way)
4. My friend's 4 wheeler.
5. Jet-A

There's just too many to only list five and some go hand in hand.........T (I'm not gonna make it another month!)

[mjhowe]

#1 Lazer Mag 10" power auger

#2 Tie- Glacier 3 shelter/Fish Trap scout

#4 Croxton Pond Bag

#5 Yamaha Grizzly 600 ATV

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Mike
Kalispell, MT
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[Mankato-Ice-Man]

1- My wife- Shame on you guys for me being the first one to put this down! Ha Ha.
2- My FL-18- It was close to being #1. Almost as important as the rod and hook.
3- Buddy Heater- just enough heat to make things comfy.
4- Ice Buster bobbers- hard to go back to anything else now.
5- Beef sticks and soda- don't usually drink when I ice fish.

That will change in a year or two when my now 4 1/2 month old boy is able to go. He shoots right to the top of the list.

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Born to Fish, Forced to Work!

[cwmn]

By myself,
Fishtrap lite
two rods and tip-up
Zercom Colorpoint (cause I'm a maveric)
Small 4000 BTU heater
Bucket and seat

With the wife,
6X8 Clam
10,000 BTU heater
Porta toilet
Lawn chair
Plastic bags filled with snacks, diet soda, books
assorted sweaters sweat shirts gloves hats
shorts for me cause the **** heater is turned up so high.

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Have a good one!
CWMN

[Gerd]

I'm just a poor college student, so nothing fancy for me. (Yet!)

1. Warm boots!
2. Ice-buster bobbers
3. Sharp blades for the 7" hand auger
4. Something with a backrest for sitting
5. Hungry Fish!!!

My wish list goes a little more like this:

1. FL-8
2. Fish Trap or similar
3. 8-10" Jiffy gas auger
4. ATV
5. Hungry fish!!!

[Jig stick]

1.Small OTTER DEN 2.fl-8 3.Lazer Mag Xpress 4.buddy heater 5.Bucket seat(with back rest) (6) Spike's ~