Fishing Michigan

Ebay has been a good source the last couple of years for many things ice fishing.  Enter those two words into  your search and the results are too many to sort through, but you can narrow it down a bit.  Get specific, type in the brand and model you want, and depending on the season and availability, you might be rewarded with a decent buy.  I like the decent priced “buy it now” option, waiting out a bid can take too long, and often I forget to go back and check to see how the process is going.

My favorite ice fishing reel has been the Daiwa Caprice,  since discontinued by Daiwa.  During their run they once sold for $45.00.  Looking through a search, I didn’t see my favorite size (the 1000),  but the 1500 and 2000 would be good choices for some of my longer rods, and also for ultra light and jigging open water rods.  Prices starting at $22 is a lot less what I paid for most of mine.

I have been debating on getting the Lowrance H2Oc model GPS unit for quite some time now.  Prices are slowly coming down in the stores, but on Ebay, its a lot less.  This a color unit which helps distinguish your marks in daylight, and you can change the colors of your tracks so they don’t just look like a bunch of black squiggly lines through the places you have been.  There are also map cards available to get you to  your fav spot, much like the bigger units available for boats.

Now, I have more St. Croix ice fishing rods than any other brand, and even though I didn’t see any of the 32″ models I like for walleye fishing, there are some to be had.  The thing is to do a little research on the products you are interested in,  look before you leap type of thing.  Some of the bidding is fast approaching what the items might cost in a store brand new.  Throw in the shipping and it might be more than what you would pay with taxes (sales in MI).  Shop smart.

This is my favorite ice item, and I always look it up when shopping around on Ebay.  Its the Green Hornet ice rod used by Walter Mattheau in the movie, “Grumpy Old Men”.   I always think how cool would that look over the mantle in a cabin. 

There is a ton of stuff to look up, good luck lol

A while back I told you the story about Shiloh saving my niece from an attack from a St. Bernard near my brother’s home in Monroe.  She was put down today, due to  kidney failure.

Shiloh was nicknamed “Snake” by mom several years ago, because she was “snakey” as she put it.  Whenever you turned around she had snaked off somewhere, just out of sight.  It wouldn’t take long to find her, if she wasn’t baying on a trail, she had her nose to the ground sniffing like a hoover vacuum cleaner.  I mean you could hear this hound from yards away pulling up a scent.  Looking back,  it reminds me of the old cartoons of the hounds on the track of bugs bunny. Not sure what all she sucked up over the years, but it wasn’t unusual to see parts of leaves or pine needles sticking out.

A young 8 years to have passed away way too soon.