Rigging an Ice Fishing Tip Up

Video Transcript

"All right let’s talk about how to rig a tip up. First thing you'll want to start with is you want to get some what the call, they call it squid line and essentially it's just a very, very strong line this happens to be thirty six pound test. Comes in anywhere from twenty to sixty pound test probably twenty is fine for anybody but you want, you want a lot of this usually you want to rig you tip up up with probably I typically fill my reel with it. Which is probably about two hundred feet might be over kill but it's always nice to have. So that squid line gets wound around your reel as you hold it in your left hand you always want to wind it away from you. You tie it with a knot to the interior of the spool and then just keep going until you spool is filled up. What I typically do then because this squid line is obviously very thick and fish would shy away from it. So what you want to do is you want to get yourself a barrel swivel here tie your squid line to that barrel swivel and the tie a piece of mono filament leader to the other side of the barrel swivel and the essentially allows that barrel swivel acts as a connector between the heaver line and the thinner line which is strong but it's not going to be as visible to the fish. You simply continue with that and add a split shot or a sinker and then a hook to your end of your leader and you’re good to go and ready to fish."