Troll a bait under the ice

[mikeaustin]

Hi my name is Mike and i am 68 and retired. Is there a product on the market today that will alllow you to move or troll a bait around under the ice in any direction and distance?.

[Craigums]

I dont think so, But it sounds like a heck of an invention.

[Royce Aardahl]

A good friend with scuba equipment.

[Fever]

sounds like a heck of a lot of work too though. Imagine trying to cut a 6 inch strip through 22 inches of ice for 60 yards.... Holy @#$%. I'd just rather drill 40 holes jog from one to another and virtically jig each one really quick. It would be neat if there were a tool to do this without much work though.

[Scott K]

The tool is called a chain saw! I have seen it done, a guy cut a trench about 20 feet long, a foot wide, just walked back and forth . I thought about doing it!

[BigWadeS]

I thought you were gonna say the secret tool is called C-4, but seriously doesn't a chubby darter troll in circles?

[tigerbalm2424]

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Hi my name is Mike and i am 68 and retired. Is there a product on the market today that will alllow you to move or troll a bait around under the ice in any direction and distance?.

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Im guessing you asked this question because you have an idea. If so, I'd be more than happy to let you bounce ideas off my head. Send me a Private Message!

[Desperado]

I always figured a guy could troll through the ice with a DitchWitch.

[Shawnny B]

You know I was trying to think of something like this the other day, set up on a weed edge, have one guy in a portable on one end and another on the other and wind/free spool in one direction and back ....ehheeh NO I CAUGHT HIM, NO I DID ....

[federline]

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Hi my name is Mike and i am 68 and retired. Is there a product on the market today that will alllow you to move or troll a bait around under the ice in any direction and distance?.

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Yes, I saw it at the St. Paul Ice Fishing Show. It a floating wing thingy you attached to your line at a depth above your bait you want to fish at, and every time you yank the line above it and then feed it line, it "swims" away from you and the hole under the ice and brings the bait with it underneath.

[federline]

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The tool is called a chain saw!

I have seen it done, a guy cut a trench about 20 feet long, a foot wide, just walked back and forth

. I thought about doing it!

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I have a buddy who says this will be the only way I get him to go ice fishing.

[Huntin&Fishin]

Hey me to! Is there a chance he lives in rogers?

[Hammer Handle]

There used to be an item that was meant to pull you lure under the water for a distance so you didn't have to cast.

But, it did not work...and didn't last long. Others followed, same results.....

[jbird68]

Sorta like the drop and drag approach. Drop a Rapala or Airplane jig to teh bottom...it will swim away from your hole and then you just drag it very slow on the bottom until it is right beneath your hole. I read about it in an annual publishing by Dave Genz about ice fishing for perch.

[NAGORSKI]

Yep, I saw it at the show also. It looked like it worked fine but I don't know about the "feel" of a bite and how the hookset would be. The first think I thought of though was you better fish alone or you'd have a tangled mess!

[slipperybob]

I've used the space bobber under the ice. It works, just like any presentation given the right time and place. My problem was that in really thick ice >24 inches...I found some difficulty sticking my whole fish rod under the ice.

Line tangle mess is awesome...ooohhh, ohhh big fish! Buddy from 20 feet away is yelling ohhh big fish. 5 minutes later, It's swimming your way! 5 minutes later, I think we're tangled.

[Chode2235]

The beauty of ice fishing is that you can easily set up over fish, and take your time and finesse them in. You find the fish and fish your lure directly to them.

Trolling is more of a search for the fish method you use in the open water.

I can't really see the advantage of being able to troll for them, especially when you have a flasher and can find them before you even drill a hole in the ice.

[CALVINIST]

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Hi my name is Mike and i am 68 and retired. Is there a product on the market today that will alllow you to move or troll a bait around under the ice in any direction and distance?.

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Yes, I saw it at the St. Paul Ice Fishing Show. It a floating wing thingy you attached to your line at a depth above your bait you want to fish at, and every time you yank the line above it and then feed it line, it "swims" away from you and the hole under the ice and brings the bait with it underneath.

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That "thing" is called a "Space Bobber". Saw it demo'ed at the state fair. My wife bought one for me, but I never used it. I suppose it has a few applications, but looks more like a gimmick than anything else.

[slipperybob]

Space bobber. The gimmick does work, in it's own application. You can't finesse jig, but you can swim your jig. Kind of hard to work it under the ice. I use it but I find it difficult to reel a fish in. If anything I'm thinking that if I apply planing board technique it would be better. I get a fish, line release, reel fish in, then recover space bobber. Perhaps I will be experimenting with it some more, but first I will have to find that big lunk of a plastic somewhere in the house. I'm busy using my LX5 at the moment. When I get an underwater camera, I will be more inclined to use the space bobber under the ice again.