Tips for Ice Fishing

 

Ice fishing is a proactive kind of sport that utilizes an ice fishing shanty. The action does not come to you by itself. You have to take the initiative to do it. Here are three tips that will help you during winter ice fishing.

The Football Field Strategy

You can know where your fish are through the sonar, and it is not necessary to dig a hole every time you have an intuition. The flashers have a transducer that levels itself with the hole. LCD displays are not good enough when it comes to cooler conditions. If there are two people, then the search becomes easier. One can drill holes in a zigzag pattern while the other can use the flasher and check the holes.

A football approach calls for opting for a search area of the size of football field. Drill a few holes at different points in an area of the size of a football field. If you do not get your catch, then select another football field. The strategy works, and you get the catch with a few searches.

Sticky Areas

Many lakes have sticky areas. These are weedy and shallow areas that are highly productive and provide for better fish catches early during the winters. Later on, fish go deeper into the waters. These areas are neither too hard nor too soft but are just the right breeding grounds for burrowing insects. These insects attract other kinds of fish. Lake depth areas of 15 to 30 feet provide you good shots, as they have more middle depths and compositions. Here you can find the biggest catches, but you may also be required to dig many holes. Be confident as you won’t find great numbers of anglers here.

Sonar units can also find and reveal sticky bottoms. Set the sonar unit to its “auto-gain” point. The hard bottoms are displayed in the form of bright, wide and clearly defined signals. The softer bottoms have weak and thin signals. The sticky areas lie in between these two extreme depth variations.

Find Depression

Depressions are the winter hot spots, and many ice fishermen fail to find them. The one to four foot deep holes can vary in size. The largest have a size consisting of a number of football fields while the smaller ones may have a size of a garage. These areas have the sticky composition and offer forage, food and warmth to the fish. The depth charts can display to your depressions. The older contour maps also display them. The modern contour maps (digital in nature) can reveal depth changes of one foot or more, and are the best ways to find out the depression.

Hunting supply stores offer all kinds of fishing gear including sonar and ice shanties, to make your trip successful and filled with fun.

 

Bore Smith Hunting Gun: Cleaning Kit Review

 

When you are looking for more affordable and inexpensive hunting supplies such as a gun cleaning tool, and an option that is very effective, then you should consider the triangular-cleaning patch or the double diameter wire-bore brush from the revolutionary brand Bore-Smith.

The revolutionary Bore-Smith gun cleaners have 2 main products vs. the cloth triangle-shape patches and the double diameter brush. The products work along with each other and offer you best-in-class gun cleaning performance. You also get cost efficiency, and the firearms are cleaned properly by the equipment so that they do not suffer from residues and improper cleans. The products also see to it that your gun-cleaning experience is good and does not cause any kind of frustration.

The older square or round gun cleaning cloth patches had a fine line and got stuck between the barrels during their cleaning. In stark contrast, the triangular patches have wider areas and greater cleaning surface and are offered to consumers in many different kinds of sizes so that they can use them for a variety of firearm sizes.

Jag Brush

The now popular Bore Smith Triangular Gun Cleaning patches come along with a cleaning jag brush. The wire-bore brush has 2 different kinds of diameters and can fit on any cleaning rod. The bristles at the smaller diameter section hold the triangle patch while the long bristles found at the brush’s rear loosen the fouling inside the bore of the gun. So the new Bore Smith gun-cleaning Jag Brush combines the functions of both wire brushes and cleaning jag into one single equipment. It has been found that the Bore Smith products can easily clean even the black powders with ease.

The triangular patches will stay attached to cleaning Jag Brush until the brush is removed. So you can make a number of passes in either barrel direction. As you are not required to switch between the use of patches and brush, you get a fast and efficient gun cleaning process.

You will be thoroughly satisfied with the products as its components are fit for cleaning rifles of barrel size 0.17 caliber and all others that lie in between it and the muzzleloader 0.58 caliber. Hunting supply stores can provide you the gun cleaner at most affordable cost. Caution! Before cleaning your gun ensure that it has its chamber and barrel empty and has no magazines or bullets loaded so that there is no accident.