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Hello all,
After reading through many of your posts and watching videos of people spearing monster pike through the ice, I've decided to take the plunge this year. My wife just bought me a Shappell Widehouse 6500 hub shack that I intend to spear out of. I set it up during our trip home to the U.P. for Christmas and cut a spearing-sized hole. I'm already addicted to the large hole, and I neither had a spear nor saw a fish (other than the minnow that I dangled below the hole). That's why I'm finally posting: I need advice regarding what will be my first spear.
My stepdad is an accomplished welder, and he's offered to build me a spear. He has friends who used to spear, and he's fished all his life, so he's not going in entirely blind. All he's asked is that I send him a few photographs (to give him an idea what "style" head I'd prefer on the spear and what material I'd like him to build it with), and that I send him some dimensions for him to use as a guide (e.g., length of tines, length of handle, diameter of handle, distance between tines). I'm hoping that someone here can provide some advice and perhaps even a few photographs.
As payment, I'll offer to take any and all advisors out fishing if (a) I ever find any pike down here; and (b) they're in my neck of the woods. Thank you in advance for your help.
After reading through many of your posts and watching videos of people spearing monster pike through the ice, I've decided to take the plunge this year. My wife just bought me a Shappell Widehouse 6500 hub shack that I intend to spear out of. I set it up during our trip home to the U.P. for Christmas and cut a spearing-sized hole. I'm already addicted to the large hole, and I neither had a spear nor saw a fish (other than the minnow that I dangled below the hole). That's why I'm finally posting: I need advice regarding what will be my first spear.
My stepdad is an accomplished welder, and he's offered to build me a spear. He has friends who used to spear, and he's fished all his life, so he's not going in entirely blind. All he's asked is that I send him a few photographs (to give him an idea what "style" head I'd prefer on the spear and what material I'd like him to build it with), and that I send him some dimensions for him to use as a guide (e.g., length of tines, length of handle, diameter of handle, distance between tines). I'm hoping that someone here can provide some advice and perhaps even a few photographs.
As payment, I'll offer to take any and all advisors out fishing if (a) I ever find any pike down here; and (b) they're in my neck of the woods. Thank you in advance for your help.
