Hole Placement in a flip over house

[BuschPilot]

how do you guys place your holes? I am thinking of getting one and like to fish 2 holes so if its me and a buddy we're looking at having 4 holes in this area. i am looking at the new Team WILD 3 man house which looks pretty nice. thanks for the help.

[Sandmannd]

I drill three most of the time of two are fishing in the house. One on each side for fishing and a thrid for either camera or icewell. Then put two outside for tipups. You could also use the third hole for fishing if you want.

[CrappieAttitude]

In my otter lodge, I have fished two holes with two guys quite a few times. When sitting with my feet on the ice, i normally drill one hole directly in front of me and then I position my other hole towards the front corner of my house. (make sure it isn't too close that your rod tip hits the canvas with your hook set)

Typically I will jig/finesse the hole directly in front of me and deadstick the corner holes. I have rod holders on the frame that hold my deadstick rods, so I don't have to worry about breaking/losing one down the hole. This leaves the ice directly in front of the door open for my heater, vexilar, ect. One thing I would reccomend is getting some led lights to attatch to your frame. Having a light source other than that of a lantern will give you some more space out in front of you as well.

CA

[Glockwinger]

I set mine up similar to CrappieAttitude. When I fish alone, I drill a hole directly in front of me for jigging, another infront of that for the Vexilar, and one to my side where the second person would sit. Kind of an "L" shape with three holes. With two people in the shack, I drill more of a "5" dice pattern, the holes right in front of you for jigging, the holes near the canvas for deadsticks in holders attached to the sled, and one near the middle for the Vex, or use the deadstick hole for the Vex. Heater has to be near the door with two guys for me in a smallish portable. (I take up a lot of the portable by myself at 6'3" and 240 lbs!)

The best way to figure out what works for you is experiment on the ice...or even set the shack up in the garage and use some empty ice cream pails and set them where you think holes should go and see how it feels with all your gear in the shack with you.

Just my .02 - YMMV

[Walterwontfalter]

I drill mine kind of like how a 5 looks on dice...but with the center hole a little closer to my sled. That's the hole I put my camera in. One hole between each person's feet and one about 2 feet in front of each of those.

If I'm in there by myself I sit in the middle of the sled and have a hole on each side with my feet inbetween.

Here's a link to an old post about this. Hope there's some useful information for you in there.

Portable hole placement