Look it! I used to make things!

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Was out in the garage today.

I have an old wooden box for my locator, a wooden transducer arm, and a sled made of 2x4's.

Whew...Now we just go buy everything from the store...And to think, I used to make things.

[Guest]

I once took a 12 inch 2X4 and sawed it a dog bone shape. I hollowed out the ends and wraped line around it to make a tip-up of sorts that layed over the hole.

[Guest]

wow, this one time... i went to fleet farm and bought a tip up it was in a plastic package and all what will they think of next. only joshin' don't get me wrong i love to build stuff but sometimes it's easier and cheaper to just go buy it.

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" the water's cold...deep too"

[Guest]

If you can dream up something that you could really use, then you go looking for it and it's not available anywhere the way you want it to be, then you have to build it. That's the only way you will ever have anything that's perfect in your own mind. So go build it. Take your time-it's very rewarding. You can save alot of money too. I needed a rack for the hitch on my Tahoe Sport to haul my portable shelter. All the racks in the stores available for sale were over $200 and way too narrow to haul much of anything. I built my own for less than $35 and have been using it for two winters now. The whole works (including shelter and auger) just slides out of the hitch receiver onto a wheeled trolley (I also built) and rolls right into the garage. Simple and no muss-no fuss!......T

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I remember as a little kid my Dad making his own "bottom" walkers for trolling out of a thin wire rod with a nut soldered to it and a twist/swivel in the middle. We would use them for trolling with live bait and pulling rap's. The best was watching him take the very old jigging rapala's and using a small drill bit he would auger out the eye sockets. If you remember the bouncing glow in the dark balls you could buy at Ben Franklin Stores he would take and cut away a very small piece of that and glue it into the eye sockets of the rapala's for a glow in the dark rapala! Man, I know he still has a bunch of that stuff around and I should get him to organize it and put an approximate date on when he did those things just for "memories" of when things were different!!

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Back in the early "60s" when we fished Mille Lacs, we would use a swivel about 6' up the line, then take the old dog ear sinkers and just bend the tabs over so the sinker would slide on the line! One of the guys out at Hennepin Island one spring said "Hey, that's a slick slip sinker rig ya got there!"
Funny little guy, think his name was Al somethin.

[Guest]

We built a sled once from 2x4 pine and then nailed aluminum flashing to the bottom with roofing nails and figured it would slide on the snow good.

A good idea, but what a heavy little debbie.

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I don't use a shelter here in Ma. and they don't let you drive on the ice so when I go fishin I need to bring everything with me. I made a sled out of 3/4 inch plywood and some old skis I got for $5.00 at a yard sale. It's 3 feet long by 2 feet wide by 2 1/2 feet high with a cover you can sit on. I cut a mouse hole in each end and my gas auger slides in and hangs over. I have hooks all over it to hang other stuff on. Kinda looks like the Beverly Hillbillies going out on the ice. It's a little heavy but works great! and cost less than $20.00 to make.