Thread: Looks Like Ice!!!

Originally Posted by Crappie 1

There are some guys with their shacks fishing on Houghton Lake this morning. Son called about an hour ago to tell me.

The channels on Gun lake arent even froze up as of yesterday. I saw a guy in his canoe out fishing.

Originally Posted by Hermin

The channels on Gun lake arent even froze up as of yesterday. I saw a guy in his canoe out fishing.

Would of thought they would be froze over by now, looks like we still have a good week till lakes are fish able, Eric let me know when you see or here of safe ice.

Looking at Pilgrim village web site there out fishing in certain spots, looks like i might have to do a road trip in a couple of days

Originally Posted by ready2fish

Would of thought they would be froze over by now, looks like we still have a good week till lakes are fish able, Eric let me know when you see or here of safe ice.

Looking at Pilgrim village web site there out fishing in certain spots, looks like i might have to do a road trip in a couple of days

I got a 2 person ice fishing tent for Christmas. Bring on the ice!

aw yea im fishin with you this year, which one did you get?

Originally Posted by skillett007

aw yea im fishin with you this year, which one did you get?

Killzone igloo 2/3 man

Originally Posted by Hermin

Killzone igloo 2/3 man

Great present, cant wait till try it out

Originally Posted by ready2fish

Great present, cant wait till try it out

I know I am super excited. I really needed a tent so I can haul it around in my car. I have set it up in the living room a few times but the fish aren't biting there.

I have been using the Marcum VX1, their basic unit for some years now. I would not be on the ice without a flasher. I need nothing more than a real basic unit, although I love the split screen bottom mag. More expensive units have additional bells and whistles that can easily more than double the price, but I have not felt the need for them. Others who fish the ice harder than I do find some of those features invaluable, but you pay for them upfront whether you use them or not. Vexilar has some decent videos about how to use a flasher on their website. Those are well worth watching, if you are a tyro, and rewatching from time to time anyway. I prefer the Marcums I have to the Vexilars but that is more a matter of ford versus chevy type personal preference.

A flasher or even a standard depthfinder allows you to both mark holes with action to fish in, identify and watch the bait you are presenting and notice any fish approaches made to that bait. All are real pluses on the ice, since mobility is limited by the need to drill new holes in order to move around.

If I were to buy another new unit, though I think I would just get a Marcum Showdown Troller which is nothing more than a vertical reader, which is about all I need or use anyway and a whole lot less money than any circular flasher. They are all digital with a built in display heater. Both models of the Troller even run on AA batteries (or on the heavier 12V battery standard to most of the flashers) where weight is a consideration and short trips are the rule as they both are for me. The Trollers are a whole lot less money as well as much lighter than any of the flashers are.

Just a couple of hints here, make sure your transducer is clean and kept that way for the best possible signal, and then learn how to adjust the gain for tightest resolution and the interference control, if you are going to fish near somebody else using a flasher.