Video: Auger Size for Game Fish

Ice fishing for game fish requires larger augers and larger holes to accommodate the larger fish. Find out what size of auger you need to use when ice fishing for game fish in this free ice fishing video.

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Now keep in mind if you're fishing for game fish, you're going to wind up with a much bigger fish trying to pull it up through the hole with a much larger girth. You're going to need to use that heavier auger, quite a bit larger. Maybe a seven or an eight inch. And you want to have very sharp blades for this as we just demonstrated. We've got enough ice here, we've got about sixteen inches of ice. You're going to be drilling your holes in a much deeper area. Fifty, sixty feet sometimes, of water. You want to be able to drill a large hole so that you can set up your tip up in a clean hole once again, in a clean hole. And it's got to be large enough to pull the head and shoulders of a large lake trout, salmon or northern pike right up out of the hole and without ramming the line into the sides where the ice can still remain quite sharp. You do not want to lose a fish right here.

Auger Size for Game Fish

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