I catch fish on regular style tip ups probably 5/1 over the IFishPro. Anyone else have the same results? I have no reasoning to why this is but I fish them together many times a year in the same area and the regular style thermal always seems to have more trips and fish than the IfishPro.
I have been having the same issue. I noticed last week that my bobber stop seems to be slipping. I went to bring the ifish pro in and it had a ton of line out and no flag up. Going to try and change out the line and bobber stop on that rod and give it another try this weekend. It seems like the trigger takes just a little more pressure than a normal tip up.
I noticed last week that my bobber stop seems to be slipping. I went to bring the ifish pro in and it had a ton of line out and no flag up. .
This just happened to me last weekend. I am going to put on a new bobber stop and may even put 2 on. I haven’t used it a lot but its a first time that happened. I’m hoping the slip just wasn’t tight.
I have been having the same issue. I noticed last week that my bobber stop seems to be slipping. I went to bring the ifish pro in and it had a ton of line out and no flag up. Going to try and change out the line and bobber stop on that rod and give it another try this weekend. It seems like the trigger takes just a little more pressure than a normal tip up.
I’ve notice this a couple times but tightening the knot has eliminated that for me. I check it often too.
Make sure that you are using a bead between the bobber stop and I fish pro trigger.
I always barely set the trigger as light as possible just teetering on the edge. Any bite and the fish doesn’t feel resistance and can run freely. Also make sure to use the appropriate size treble. Maybe the fish are hitting it and spitting the hook?
Set it up at home under ideal conditions to make sure your trigger and stops are where they need to be. Sure beats pulling by hand caveman style. I think I’m batting .150 on tip up hooksets so I hate those things!
I experienced the same. Then I hated having to have to re rig the trigger on or off to use the rod. So I ended up selling my 3. They were more of a pain in the ass then what I thought it was going to be.
The final straw was when some sip sh!! Ran mine over making me loose a rod and I fish pro.
I would rather use a beaverdam tip up or my finicky fooler
Dang it! My timing is off. Just purchased my first one about an hour ago because I couldn’t find a Beaver Dam tip up or a Finicky Fooler. 
I catch fish on regular style tip ups probably 5/1 over the IFishPro. Anyone else have the same results? I have no reasoning to why this is but I fish them together many times a year in the same area and the regular style thermal always seems to have more trips and fish than the IfishPro.
Thats because they suck.
Buy a finnicky fooler
If finnicky fooler had just a hair of a marketing department they’d blow any other tip up out of the water with popularity and sales.
The HT Ice Rigger is the same concept for like $18 and fewer parts to get lost. Just one guy’s opinion
Sure the finnicky fooler while having the worst name in history, is much simpler to use. That’s not the point of my post. I can’t figure out why a tip up would get more flags than an IFishPro running the same setups, because that has been my experience (and bobber stop slippage has not been the problem).
Sure the finnicky fooler while having the worst name in history, is much simpler to use.
That was a part of the “marketing department” comment lol. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
Sure the finnicky fooler while having the worst name in history, is much simpler to use.
That was a part of the “marketing department” comment lol. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
While I haven’t used one yet, I do like the design. Maybe I should hit him up to see if he needs a social media manager and add to my side gig portfolio. 
I’ve had good luck with first strike rod flags.
That’s strange. For me I would say I catch fish on my rod tip ups 5:1 vs normal tip ups. I believe I catch more on the rods because one you can adjust the tip up to go off at just the amount of tension you want, and 2, it is easier to keep tension on the fish with the rod vs hand lining. Granted I don’t have an Ifish pro because finicky foolers are 10x better.
Just curious if you have ever done like a comparison where you set up the tip up and I fish Pro next to each other or very close? I kind of feel that when you have a set up of tip ups you always get some going off and others never?
I am about 50/50 with mine this year but I have been fishing pike and they are not as picky as walleye. But I have caught perch, crappie, walleye and pike on mine I think they work fine.
I have never tried the finicky fooler though.
I’ve caught a lot of fish on the iFishPro. Occasionally, I would lose fish because the line would freeze into the hole or the trigger just wasn’t light enough for the absolutely lightest of bites, and my minnow would get stripped. Line freeze is going to be an inherent issue with any rod-style tipup. Like others have said, the bobber stop will occasionally slide, just like it will on a bobber rod. Bobber stop position needs to be checked with a graph after every couple fish. The reason I stopped using them is their size and bulk, and the fact they can’t fit in a bucket.
The Finicky Fooler is a much better design: much smaller, more adjustable trigger pull, doesn’t use a bobber stop, and it doesn’t use that terrible red plastic IFP trigger. It’s a far better product. It was also be used in a wheelhouse or as a substitute for a bobber rod. I was just using them on the far corner of a LOW dayhouse last week with a dropshotted tail-hooked rainbow, and it was the catching fish left and right without me having to watch a bobber.
The Beaver Dam tipup with a foam hole cover and a jingle bell zip tied to the flag pole will always be a mainstay for me. These are my go-to when the temps are well below freezing.
The Beaver Dam tipup with a foam hole cover and a jingle bell zip tied to the flag pole will always be a mainstay for me. These are my go-to when the temps are well below freezing.
Wow thats genius with the bells. Ive never thought of that. Great idea
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bass Thumb wrote:</div>
The Beaver Dam tipup with a foam hole cover and a jingle bell zip tied to the flag pole will always be a mainstay for me. These are my go-to when the temps are well below freezing.Wow thats genius with the bells. Ive never thought of that. Great idea
Works on the IFP flagpole too, and you can punch a hole though that tough Finicky Fooler flag to hang one on there as well.
On the Beaver and IFP, you need a couple zip ties to form a small chain so the bell can swing a little to make more noise.
Finicky Fooler is very nice!
What rod are you using in the ifish pro? You want to go a bit stiffer/stronger power, usually a carbon rod, for these line trigger type “tip ups’ like the ifish pro and finicky fooler. Reason being, if the rod is absorbing the “pull” of the bite, then you are not moving the line in the trigger mechanism. Stiffer rod allows that line to pull the trigger and set the flag – combine that with an open bail or bait feeder and the fish is free to run. Running braid like fireline ultra 8 helps as well.
I use the Deadstick from TUCR. Again, the problem isn’t that I’m losing fish it’s that I don’t get any flags with them. They don’t freeze up because I use an Ice Defense with it. They sit next to another “classic” disc style tipup and it will get 3-5x more flags than the ifishpro. Mostly with pike but walleye also. I don’t care which rod style tip up is better. I just think it’s crazy that a regular tip up gets more bites than an ifishpro with the same setup and live bait.
I use the Deadstick from TUCR. Again, the problem isn’t that I’m losing fish it’s that I don’t get any flags with them. They don’t freeze up because I use an Ice Defense with it. They sit next to another “classic” disc style tipup and it will get 3-5x more flags than the ifishpro. Mostly with <em class=”ido-tag-em”>pike but <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleye also. I don’t care which rod style tip up is better. I just think it’s crazy that a regular tip up gets more bites than an ifishpro with the same setup and live bait.
Is it rigged right. I caught a bunch with mine before I thought they were a pain in my ass
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
I use the Deadstick from TUCR. Again, the problem isn’t that I’m losing fish it’s that I don’t get any flags with them. They don’t freeze up because I use an Ice Defense with it. They sit next to another “classic” disc style tipup and it will get 3-5x more flags than the ifishpro. Mostly with <em class=”ido-tag-em”>pike but <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleye also. I don’t care which rod style tip up is better. I just think it’s crazy that a regular tip up gets more bites than an ifishpro with the same setup and live bait.Is it rigged right. I caught a bunch with mine before I thought they were a pain in my ass
It is. And yes they are a pain. I have gone through a few different rigging options and have one that works correctly when it gets a bite. I just don’t seem to get many bites on them. I love fighting fish on a rod which is the whole point of these things but it just blows my mind that I get so many more flags with the old school tip ups.
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.
This isn’t your complete sample size is it?
There isn’t much there to hang a hat on IMO.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.This isn’t your complete sample size is it?
There isn’t much there to hang a hat on IMO.
You really think I’m going to use one day and make a post on here about it? Figured I had earned a little more credit than that around here. I’ve owned it for 3 seasons and have had similar results the whole time.
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.
Is this some kind of riddle, are you just testing us Pete?
Seriously though, if all parts being equal as far as line, leader, hook, bait, depth…etc., it’s somewhat inexplicable.
I cannot imagine any difference in the bait presentation to the fish that would cause it to discriminate against the IFish Pro.
Maybe they are being influenced by their sponsor’s. 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.Is this some kind of riddle, are you just testing us Pete?
Seriously though, if all parts being equal as far as line, leader, hook, bait, depth…etc., it’s somewhat inexplicable.
I cannot imagine any difference in the bait presentation to the fish that would cause it to discriminate against the IFish Pro.
Maybe they are being influenced by their sponsor’s.
That’s what I’m getting at! It just doesn’t make any sense to me that there would be a noticeable difference! 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:</div>
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
I was out sunday with a group of people and had probably 12-14 tip ups out around half being IfishPros. Not ONE Ifishpro tripped in 6 hours and we had about 10-12 total flags.Is this some kind of riddle, are you just testing us Pete?
Seriously though, if all parts being equal as far as line, leader, hook, bait, depth…etc., it’s somewhat inexplicable.
I cannot imagine any difference in the bait presentation to the fish that would cause it to discriminate against the IFish Pro.
Maybe they are being influenced by their sponsor’s.
That’s what I’m getting at! It just doesn’t make any sense to me that there would be a noticeable difference!
I honestly couldn’t agree more. I dont think they are a very good product. Hence the reason I sold my 3. But hey they sell for 5 bucks under new price. So they are selling them still. I bought 2 new beaver dams and never looked back
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That was a part of the “marketing department” comment lol. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
