01-06-2014, 04:53 PM
PBH, you have lots of points, but they have uses. Usually, set up and take down is easy. The shelter is usually in the car when I am by myself. I move too, and wander a long ways on the ice if fishing is slow. When I have one or more kids with me, the shelter goes. My four year old would have had zero tolerance if we didn't have it, and I would have spent 7 hours of drive time saturday with no fishing.
The other benefit of the shelter is the underwater camera. They are a pain in the butt if you are outside as you can't see the screen, but in a shelter it's like playing a video game for the little kids, which helps with the attention span.
Is kite fishing legal? As a pleasant diversion, I am tempted to hand line some perch, attach it to a kite after hookset, and watch the fish fly out the hole as the kite goes airborn. If you are in the wind, might as well use it, although it would probably confuse the resident Bald Eagles, not to mention the fish.
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The other benefit of the shelter is the underwater camera. They are a pain in the butt if you are outside as you can't see the screen, but in a shelter it's like playing a video game for the little kids, which helps with the attention span.
Is kite fishing legal? As a pleasant diversion, I am tempted to hand line some perch, attach it to a kite after hookset, and watch the fish fly out the hole as the kite goes airborn. If you are in the wind, might as well use it, although it would probably confuse the resident Bald Eagles, not to mention the fish.
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