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Ice-Fishing Shelters, Portable Fishing Houses, Ice-Fishing Shanties

Ice-Fishing ShelterAn ice-fishing shelters or ice-fishing shanties is an excellent way to fight the cold and wind when you ice-fish. ice-fishing shelters can be as simple as a pup-tent with the bottom cut out or a full structured wooden ice-fishing house or ice-fishing shed.

There is nothing better than setting up in an ice-fishing shack out of the winter weather with a fire stove going with a pot of coffee and catching some nice fish from the fishing hole.

If you are considering an Ice-fishing shelter, Ice-fishing House, Ice-fishing tent, there are a few things to consider before buying or building one.

  • What do you want from your ice-fishing shelter?
  • How many people will be ice-fishing in the shelter?
  • Will you be moving this ice-fishing shack from lake to lake or fishing hole to fishing hole or will the ice-fishing house sit in one place all winter?
  • Consider how heavy the ice-fishing shelter will be and how you will move the ice-fishing house around.

If you are planning on buying an Ice-fishing shelter there are plenty on the market to choose from, consider your weather conditions, your fishing locations and how frequent you will be ice-fishing when buying an ice-fishing shelter. You can purchase portable Ice-fishing house kits for about 200.00 to 300.00.

If you wanted to build your own ice-fishing shelter all you really need is some 2 by 2 some plywood and some Poly tarps. An Ice-fishing house can be a basic square with a door, so build a frame ranging from 4 by 6 up to 8 by 8 and wrap it with the tarp, put a framed door on hinges and you have an ice-fishing house for under 50.00. you can setup chimney, shelves, lantern hooks in your ice-fishing shelter and customize it anyway you want.

Always consider safety when ice-fishing, check the ice thickness to be 4 to 6 inches for walking on and more for driving on, use a good ice auger or an ice spud for your ice-fishing hole. Have all the right equipment, never leave stoves or lanterns lit when moving the ice-fishing shelter. Have a good first aid kit incase of emergences. Make your ice-fishing trip a good and memorable one.

Happy, safe and warm ice-fishing. See you out there.