How to Wind Up an Ice Fishing Reel
- 1). Take the end of the fishing line and make three wrapped coils over the center of the ice fishing tip up reel. Pull the end up and through each of the coils and then pull tight.
- 2). Hand-spin the dowel so the line spools up on the center and comes off the raw line spool (the spool the line comes on when it is purchased). Reel in enough line for your fishing hole. As a general rule in ice fishing, you need one-third to two-thirds less line than fishing in water versus ice.
- 3). Cut the end of the line from the raw spool. Tie your hook, sinkers or surface bobber to the tip-up fishing line and then head out to get those slow, cold fish.