Ice Fishing Can Be Fun For Beginners

If you're planning in ice fishing but have no knowledge in this area of interest then you will find a few key pieces of info that you're going to need. First of all, most of the people assume that ice fishing is a uninteresting activity with nothing to do but focus at a hole in the ice for many hours on end. This is competly not true except that is the adventure that you want to have. Ice fishing is something that needs very little tools. It is at it's best, if you bring along some close friends that want to go with you. You're also going to need a fishing permit. If you're busted ice fishing without a license then you're going to end up in some really serious legal troubles. I'm not sure if this is true where you're but in many noth american ice fishing locations the law demands you to pay and apply for if you want to go fishing or hunting.

Some of the important gear that you need if you're going to go ice fishing as a novice are as follows. You're definetly going to need some comfortable protective outfits. Maybe even a second change of warm clothes just incase you fall through the ice. You're going to need some lines, 10 lb test should be okay for newbies. You do not really need a rod to go ice fishing unless you want one. There is a peice of tools called a tip up that you might want to think about. A tip up runs by doing just what the name indicates. It tips up when you have a strike on your line, that way you do not have to actually hang onto the line and feel for a strike.


You're also going to need hooks and bait to go with your line. There are bait stores near almost every body of water so do not get worried about that too much. If you're too cheap to purchase your own then i recommend highly that you wander into the forest and flip over some dead wood logs to find some. That is just the basics of what you need to actually get some fish while out on the ice but there's so much more tools that you can carry  if you want to have an even more pleasurable time on the ice. Some of the other ice fishing tools that starters may want to get along is a shelter to protect you from natures wildness. An ice fishing shelter can be as simple as a tarpaulin with two solid wood poles or as complex as a warmed small house that is dragged out onto the ice. You can also bring along heaters and chairs and everything that you can believe of on your newbies ice fishng adventure. As fun as ice fishing can be there is still a factor of risk. This is very true for ice fishing novices because you might not know about ice environments or how to check the thickness of the ice that you're going out onto. If you do not know these thing then I recommend that you read more on the subject and learn as much as you can to keep yourself safe out on the ice.

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