<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sidescan wrote:</div>
Ht makes one. works great.They work with my spinning reels as well.I installed a ice screw on base to fully secure and less chance to tipping over. Very senstive for dead sticking and easy to jig the lure with a touch of the finger. Fish safe.
Again nothing more than a rod holder. With a true Tip Down the rod sits in a stand at roughly a 45 degree angle and the rod tip is about 2 feet or more off the ice.
It takes very little and I mean very little pressure to pull the rod down from 45 degrees to horizontal, a slight wind can do it. From horizontal the rod will free fall the remainder of the way with the rod tip ending up on the edge of the hole feeding the line to the fish.
The free fall gives the Crappie/Perch a foot or so of very little pressure and another foot of totally resistance free line. That is the key, no back pressure from the pole.
All of these rod holders that are called Tip Downs are not a true Tip Down (Dangler, HT, Sullivan, TL Designs, etc.) they have constant pressure on the fish because they do not tip easy enough and never free fall.
Getting a spinning reel to do this is almost impossible, maybe with a mini baitcaster and a lot of trial and error. The fun part will be finding a rod to mount it to that is fairly short.
True Tip Downs
http://www.tipdown.com/ One of the better designs
http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=Douglas-Creek-Outdoors-Original-Tip-Down&i=717846
http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/sure-strike-tip-down/0000000060989
I wonder where they got there design from?
Not true Tip Downs
http://www.icefishingtipdown.com/
http://www.ezfisherman.com/
http://www.amazon.com/HT-BTD-50-Master-Deluxe-System/dp/B0086DY0CM
http://www.doublehoutdoors.com/tipdown.html Not a bad idea but not a true tip down and I’m not carrying a bunch of 5 gal buckets.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sidescan wrote:</div>
Ht makes one. works great.They work with my spinning reels as well.I installed a ice screw on base to fully secure and less chance to tipping over. Very senstive for dead sticking and easy to jig the lure with a touch of the finger. Fish safe.
Again nothing more than a rod holder. With a true Tip Down the rod sits in a stand at roughly a 45 degree angle and the rod tip is about 2 feet or more off the ice.
It takes very little and I mean very little pressure to pull the rod down from 45 degrees to horizontal, a slight wind can do it. From horizontal the rod will free fall the remainder of the way with the rod tip ending up on the edge of the hole feeding the line to the fish.
The free fall gives the Crappie/Perch a foot or so of very little pressure and another foot of totally resistance free line. That is the key, no back pressure from the pole.
All of these rod holders that are called Tip Downs are not a true Tip Down (Dangler, HT, Sullivan, TL Designs, etc.) they have constant pressure on the fish because they do not tip easy enough and never free fall.
Getting a spinning reel to do this is almost impossible, maybe with a mini baitcaster and a lot of trial and error. The fun part will be finding a rod to mount it to that is fairly short.
True Tip Downs
http://www.tipdown.com/ One of the better designs
http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=Douglas-Creek-Outdoors-Original-Tip-Down&i=717846
http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/sure-strike-tip-down/0000000060989
I wonder where they got there design from?
Not true Tip Downs
http://www.icefishingtipdown.com/
http://www.ezfisherman.com/
http://www.amazon.com/HT-BTD-50-Master-Deluxe-System/dp/B0086DY0CM
http://www.doublehoutdoors.com/tipdown.html Not a bad idea but not a true tip down and I’m not carrying a bunch of 5 gal buckets.
My Ht’s are sensitive, lightest touch tip goes down I mean lightest, set up is everything I guess, I use real light rigs on my deadstick . Cheap, fold thin, work for me.Looks like a tipdown, is called a tipdown in catalogues, must be a tipdown I guess.