I live on a lake that is full of pike and we use the IFP a lot! One really great perk is when you are fishing with kids. Our 11 YO daughter pulled in a nice 30″ last Saturday. If we were using regular tip ups she would never had been able to land that fish.
I will never use an old style tip up again.
I’ve never had any issues with my DIY insulated IFP. The flag seems to trip with any walleye bites and rarely do I get stripped of a minnow. The only two issues that bothers me with an IFP is that it’s a little bulky and the line can freeze into the surface of the hole, unlike a tip-up, so I only use it when it’s a bit warmer.
I did pick up a Finicky Fooler to try this season. I haven’t had it on the ice yet. One issue I can see right off the bat is that I like to add a jingle bell to the flag of my IFP and Beaver Dam tip ups. It allows me to hear the flags go up more easily, although you can hear an IFP pretty well because the flag arm often smacks the plastic body. The FF has that flimsy plastic arm that won’t tolerate the weight of a bell.
As far as panfish tip-ups, I don’t see how that’s effective, unless you’re using it to locate were a school of <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>crappies are roaming. It would drive me nuts to try and deal with a <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>bluegill set line every two minutes.
I have two FF and love them.
I set mine up with blue tipz so it tells me through my phone.
I had to put a piece of heat srink tube on the fiberglass flag rod to make it bigger but set up works great.
I have the hole cover and do not have to clean hole all the time it stays open.
So I can sit in my flip over in the warm and it will do it’s thing outside with out any freeze ups.
Works for me.
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