Ice fishing gear, compared by a guy who fishes it

I live in Iron County in the U.P. and spend my winters on the ice. This site lines up the flashers, shelters, augers and tackle you're probably choosing between, with specs pulled from the manufacturers. Prices come straight from my price scanner with the time they were checked. I never fill in a number I didn't see.

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Red wooden ice fishing shack on a snow-covered lake
Photo: Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Credits

Most of the questions I hear are the same few: flasher or live sonar, hub or flip-over, gas or battery auger. Those guides are on the left. Everything else is below.

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A Lowrance fishfinder/GPS unit showing a lake map with marked waypointsElectronicsFlashers, graphs and live sonar. Buy the one that matches your screen.Two red pop-up hub shelters set up on lake ice with anglers fishing nearbyFish HousesHubs, flip-overs and the heaters that go in them.Two anglers drilling a hole through lake ice with a hand augerAugersElectric, gas, or the drill in your garage.Yellow perch held up in a hand over a lakeTackle & GearJigs, spoons, plastics, tip-ups, rods and float suits.Ice fishing shanties scattered across Houghton Lake, MichiganWheel HousesHard-sided houses on wheels, including wheel + skid hybrids.Red wooden ice fishing shack on a snow-covered lakeSkid HousesHard-sided houses you pull on skids, including hybrids.

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