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I have about fifty tilts in my possesion. Some are very old and locally made in the Worcester area. Names on the brass spools such as "Neverfail" and "Worcester". The ones I have used regularly are the green "tall boys". They are available at most shops, hold about 100 yards of 18 pound squidding line each and have a great release mechanism. I have six rigged for bass/pickeral and Pike and six for trout/salmon. On the bpp ones I use twelve pound fluro for bass'perch and when occasionally going north for pike I rig the clothes pin on the bottom and change the leader to 20 pound mono with a short wire to the hook. The clothespin holds the button like an outrigger clip as the one pound suckers we use for bait can easily trip the regular release. On the trout salmon rigs it's six pound fluoro (8 feet) to a size 8 Gamakatzu Octopus hook. Either red or gray. A tiny split shot up 18 inches from the shiner and hook. I never ever fish deeper than six feet under the ice for salmon no matter how deep the water. Trout I go six to twelve feet under same deal. I got three salmon last year and dropped a couple, I dropped one yesterday and average a couple each year though it's slow fishing so I fish regular ( non salmon stocked) trout ponds mostly. I think the trout in the cape ponds that are caught ice fishing are the most beautiful colored you can find. And the perch ponds of Harwich, Brewster, Eastham and Wellfleet contain fish up to 15 inches. I once saw a guy named Ray Hultgren of Holden catch a 17 incher at Long Pond in Brewster. I luv to ice fish. And like EdB says get a jiggin stick.
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