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Fish Hole Sleeves

stpauliguy

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Wondering what ideas you all have on what kind of material I can use for sleeves from the fish house to the hole. Im thinking I will be around 2 feet off the ice to the top of the floor. My first thought was 12" pvc but its pretty darn spendy. Then thought about 12" duct tin, but think that would be kinda sharp!!! So now asking for your help. Thanks, Joe

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I highly recommend Catch cover over Fish Hole buddy. I have been using the Catch cover hole covers and sleeves for years and have never had an issue. A buddy of mine bought 6 Fish hole buddy hole covers last year and broke 3 of the T handles off on the covers the first month. The Bad news is he can't replace them with Catch cover because the hole is 1" larger.

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We fished out of house one time that needed a step for a front porch it was so high up off the ice. What we did was use 5 gallon pails. One slid inside the other. Bottoms cut off of coarse. That worked good. They were adjustable that way.

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For a better bucket to floor seal on windy and very cold days-

Cut a circle in a 2' square piece of carpet that is the size of the 5 gal bucket, slide the bucket thru this hole and adjust this piece of carpet to floor level when the bucket is placed in your floor. Much warmer in the house and will help keep the hole from freezing over especially when no banking snow available.

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Is this for a perm house or a trailer?

On my perm house on Mille Laces, I would just bank outside edges of house and leave area open. Holes stay open nice once house warms up (fan blows air around). I used the open area under house to store bait, frozen food, beer or pop and milk. It makes a great cooler/freezer area. When I put it outside my house, it has a chance to totaly freeze. I also hang rattle reals under flooring on truss's and have covers for holes. Remove cover and reel fish up.

If I was to go with a shoot to ice, the 5 gallon bucket idea is the best. Also if you have a trailer, this would be a good option.

Good luck!!

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shackbash Im working on a 16'trailer(camper)that I have stripped out! grin.giflooks to me like its going to be sweet!!My spear house is perm,if you stash stuff under the floor(snacks, bait,dinner!)the muskrats will not only rob you but they will start building a nest under there and boy do they stink!

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Hey, i appreciate all ideas the bucket thing sounds like a good idea, and the hole in carpet to cover the corners of the hole I like as well. I seen that menards has 12" pvc solid core on sale for $100 for 10 feet. Thats pretty decent price but I'll see what happens. Thanks for all info!! Joe

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Advantage of using 5 gallon buckets with the carpet is that they stack up into each other. Can't do this with the PVC pieces....I have 8 of these stacked together and stored under our bed. Doesn't take up much room! grin.gif

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My buddy and I are in a similar situation converting a 12 foot camper...

We haven't made the holes yet... We've just starting thinking about the floor layout etc...

Our first idea was to go with 5 gallon buckets that we just cut out the bottoms of... And then weather strip them to the floor of the house...

Then he posed the question... Why don't we just have open rectangular holes that will fit 2 holes each? And then we'll just build a box and sink it down in snug with the ice... Then we can bore 3 holes in each box location... 1 for a vex in the middle and two fishing holes?

We haven't crawled underneath yet to see if there's going to be a problem with the support structure of the floor.

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I Like your Idea for the holes,thats been on my mind how Im going to run my vexilar in a 5 gallon pail,not much room in there!

Yeah my only concern is how it's going to affect the structural integrity of the floor itself...

Essentially the back bunk area would have the outter structure of the walls... And then a 2 foot path in the middle with 2 retangular holes on each side of the path.

I just haven't crawled under there to get a look at the structure... Pretty hard to do, since the thing only sits like 8 inches off the ground when it's not on jack stands!

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I Like your Idea for the holes,thats been on my mind how Im going to run my vexilar in a 5 gallon pail,not much room in there!

I should also add... That if you/we do have to the bucket thing... It will be just like my buddy who's using tin sleeves... As you're landing the fish, the other guy has to pull the ducer out of the hole.

Though I did get pretty good at being able to pull it at the last second by sort of sliding the reel face up under the cable and holding it with my thumb.

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