I have been logging in a looking at the Iceshanty boards about everyday for about a month now . I have been doing a little bass fishing here and there but even that has not been the greatest . I did lose one that looked to be 5 or 6 pounds on Monday fishing a frog in the pads . I got him out of the pads but where I was fishing there was thick coontail around the out side of the pads once he get into that it was all over .