Tricks from days gone by still put pike on the ice

My father was an avid ice angler long before sonar, portable shelters, and high-powered gas augers.
He used cup augers and even chisel spuds to chop holes in the ice, and his rods consisted of 2-inch dowel rod that had two nails hammered into the side about 14 inches apart, with heavy nylon braided line wrapped around the two spikes. The old man was a master pike angler who slid many a huge northern pike onto the ice in his day.

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