Let's use up some of the Bosses bandwith :jump1: Winter Time Fun

Please post any if you have any :rotf2: Below is the start of my ice fishing Tip Up or Tilt collection used for ice fishing in NewEngland

The best part of these tipups is how the heck do they work ?

First up is a very rare "Wooden" pop -up , not sure how it works , there is a spring on the inside and a hole on the outside and a small screw , maybe missing a part or two :uhuh: Have yet too see another one made of wood

These are cool and always in my bag when I head out on the ice, the problem with useing antique tip ups is the holes are to big and your equipment may fall in :biglaugh:

Another fun setup that has two sets of flags one green and one red and they spin around like craze when a fish in on :rotf2:
Made on metal that sits inside the hole

your an old friggin tip up, you hoarder.

A canvas bag of jiggin sticks

Nice Small with reel

Two more small odd with reels

your an old friggin tip up, you hoarder.


Your Friggin older :love:

Your both old!

Nice "old " ones made from Oak

Most of all antique tip ups are home made back in the day by some old "Yankee"

Another huge set that you can adjust if needed

Holy cow. Thanks for letting me feel young

Holy cow. Thanks for letting me feel young


You or Cape Sam:rotf2:

Ya VB he is kinda old

I was told these were made from a local church piano ? In RI or Conn I can't remember any more :uhuh:
If you want better pictures , just ask :rotf2:

they belong in a Museum

Very hard to take pictures but you will get the idea, below is a set of strange hard rubber reels and a gismo thingy for the flag

Another great simple tip-up

Home Made , simple stick with a spring and leather :uhuh:

Most of the "stick " tilts were made to lay flat on newspaper or jammed in a pile of snow

Where is Joe ? looking around in the Barn ...lol

Just as a FYI .. The King of ice fishing tip ups is a setup that shoots off a 22 blank :)
Not sure if the near by homes would like to hear "Bang" all day long
I don't own one , but always looking for it !!!!

Those are AWESOME.... I lost lots of old stuff in a house fire many years back.. i never quite got back into collecting after that... thanks for showing that stuff off...

from the title I thought u were talkin about my joy stick when it use t-see action and worked.

Yup, like watching paint dry on a hot Aug day

Great Thread :smash:
Hey CS what does a snow ball look like ?

as a ice fishing cornersuer may i say WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW NICE STUFF:love:

as a ice fishing cornersuer may i say WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW NICE STUFF:love:

Dave, I think you mean connoisseur. Ice fishing the corner sewer means something totally different to us guys born and raised in Worcester. :biglaugh: I kid you not though, Flaptail once told me which was the prefered sewer cover to fish from near the hatchery spillway. He had fished them both, maybe with you.

Nice stuff VB. I saw one time at an antique tackle show, a type of ice fishing trap where a minnow was impaled on a barb under a spring loaded multi-pronged mechanism. When the fish bit the minnow the spring mechanism released and impaled the fish. Very creative, although I'm not sure how well it worked. I susupect it probably made catch-and release a little tough though.

Ed

Funny you would say that , Back in the Day on Lake Quisig in Worcester when we went smelt fishing , we would open a manhole cover drop a net and brag to everyone on our master fishing skills

Friggin Peter has some of the nicest stuff you have ever seen and way too much of it.


and Dave doesn't know what the hell he means

Trying to keep this interesting :uhuh:
Some nice and way cool Heavy Metal setups

A few never used early tipups

Brass sliding weight :)

This has one reads "Pat.jan25 97"

lead balls

i know where both of those conersewers are!!! but wow i love the old ice stuff. peter you are different type of collector of goodies.i fish w/ 50 yr old worcester tilts.they work great and my dads 70yr old home made carved bambo jigger stick:fishin:

Hi Dave
Happy Holidays My Friend
Keep watching as I am saving the best for last

nice spring action tilt

A great bunch of fish shape tip-ups I got from Maine
Huge :love: set

I am only posting these because I have no idea how they work :smash:

And thet look almost factory made with a nice flag and a wooden float , almost like a sub pump concept :confused: with springs

i have one of those little tip up reels

Another set of home made
simple round dowel with a pipe that slides on top:jump1:

Wish you could see theses up close.
Big fish to trip them huge lead balls :rotf2:
Hate to carry a box of 25 of theses around , they look factory made or ?

A canvas bag of jiggin sticks

These look like "cusk" traps, or some other bottom dwelling species.

One question I have is Where did you get all those wonderful toys?

You may want to check with a sports or maritime museum to see if they are true "works of art" that may be worth something.

These look like "cusk" traps, or some other bottom dwelling species.

One question I have is Where did you get all those wonderful toys?

You may want to check with a sports or maritime museum to see if they are true "works of art" that may be worth something.

Thanks

VB :jump1:

A Nice early boxfull with great green and red colors ..
Check out the date :uhuh:

Another WoW
Combo jig stick /tilt , hand made , Great weights with the owners name on each one in a carring case

Nice Numbered set of ice fishing tip ups

like I said he has more than he should be allowed. Bet he hasn't dragged them out in 2 decades or more. Probably added to the collection since last time I saw them too. Hoarder. Buried next to the furnace. Merry X mas .

OK OK , maybe a few of theses were made by a GREAT Machinist
Back in the day :)

Have a Happy Holiday

Wish you could see theses up close.
Big fish to trip them huge lead balls :rotf2:
Hate to carry a box of 25 of theses around , they look factory made or ?

can't use them lead balls anymore... so they belong in a museum
or a private display

you need an antique WOODY now
to drive around to ice fishin spots ;o)

Merry Christmas to All
Below I would guess is a salesman display case, but I have never seen another one :jump1: wicked cool icefishing 101

Enjoy

VB

Here's a few

Here's the old box. Notice the measurement marks.

Hey Dave , thanks for posting , hope your having a great day !!

Below is another super nice set in a case .

kool display with old reels , newspaper is dated 1937

Another set with metal reels in a nice old wooden box
Came with some nice old boxes etc like a pair of ear muffs with a metal band to place over your head :) found inside

A very nice set of factory made tilts / tip ups
sorry for the crap cell phone pictures ...lol

can't use them lead balls anymore... so they belong in a museum
or a private display

you need an antique WOODY now
to drive around to ice fishin spots ;o)

as long as they weigh more than an ounce you can use them...

awesome stuff Peter... brings back memories... i had alot of old stuff from my Grandfather.. unfortunatly lost it all in a house fire many years ago...

you mean the lead is only banned because of Ducks? Wow!

i know the wachusett res says no lead period because it's a "guarded" public water supply
but say you were using them BIG BALLS in OL South pond in Brookfield....
that is the drinking water supply too there
just not watched like a Hawk. interesting

Gold :smash: I say :rotf2:

you mean the lead is only banned because of Ducks? Wow!

i know the wachusett res says no lead period because it's a "guarded" public water supply
but say you were using them BIG BALLS in OL South pond in Brookfield....
that is the drinking water supply too there
just not watched like a Hawk. interesting

yup.. ducks or "water fowel"... back in the day.. I saw lots of quackers die from lead poisioning... but they never ingested it..:devil2:

Peter.. amazing what some of that stuff will bring to the right buyer/seller.. out of my league.

Joe, check these out , not mine , but cool in the box from Millbury MAss

Joe, check these out , not mine , but cool in the box from Millbury MAss

wow!!! nice stuff... enough to shift blood flow from one head to the other!:love:

That's quite a collection.

I just picked up a box full of tips at an flea market. 2 are Riverside Mfg. Worcester, MA and about ten are home made vintage and crude. I can't figure out how to rig them. Here's some pics. Any thoughts on rigging?

I'll give you a couple if you want some "Folk Art".

Nice , the best part is finding out how they work , yours is simple , looks like you need some weight or snow to keep it up / right or slam it in a crack in the ice maybe , back in the day they did not have gas powered anything ...lol

Nice , the best part is finding out how they work , yours is simple , looks like you need some weight or snow to keep it up / right or slam it in a crack in the ice maybe , back in the day they did not have gas powered anything ...lol

No power or hand augers... just axes. saws..or some sort of chisel and lots of muscle...

Nice score!

my first ice cutting device was a tire iron mounted ( by hose clamps) to an old rake handle... no wonder my shoulders are junk!

Tip ups on a 90 plus day :)