Is this legal in NH does anybody know ?

[wshniwsfshn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFfDQAIFJks
Saw this on the Mass forum but cant get it to work can someone help pretty cool .
 Thanks

[landlockedsalmon]

It is legal in Maine with only two traps,under your supervision at all times.Looks like fun.LLS

[newfoundpleasure]

This does work.  I have used this method in the middle of the summer instead of jerking bottom..  Glad you shared this.  I thought I was the only one who did this.  If you do a search on my previous posts, you see I've asked this before.
Only issue with using a tip up is while on ice, the ice doesn't move.(or at least you better pray it doesn't)  On open water, you are subject to wind and waves.
If you are drifting over 1/2 a mile an hour or more, your line won't be straight down.
What I'll do on a really really calm morning, is first locate fish on the finder that are suspended about 15-20' off bottom in 70 to 100' of water. where the terrain doesn't change all that much in a given area.  Where the lakers might pile up in late summer.  I use a 10' leader, and tie a knot or use some kind of other indicator on the backing every 10'.  So I can measure how deep I'm going.
Instead of using black pipe insulation, I use those tube pool floaties.  I get orange or yellow, so other boaters can easily see it in the water.
I then use one longer piece of floaty and slip one side of the tip-up in and put 1/2" pvc pipe in the other end of floaty so I can push the tip-up further away from the boat. I can add 10' pieces of pvc to get them further.  I don't fish like this when alone.  I'd rather drift with one rod over each side of the boat and use my line counter reel. However, when fishing in calm conditions with someone else, this is just another method I use and I can get good spread with 4 tip-ups.  one pushed out each corner of the boat.
Again, it is some work getting these together. I use this method less than a handful of times a year.  mid-late summer out of my deckboat when fishing with a few friends or family.  once setup, this is an easy way to fish and just sit back on the boat and shoot the breeze, or watch TV on the laptop, grill some food over the side of the boat, etc..
Good luck.  

NB

[rockhound57]

     Here's a partial answer from "The Horses Mouth"
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To: "Bryant, Robert" <[email protected]>
Subject: tipups in open water??


Is this legal in NH?

    I suspect it's controlled by open water restrictions- dates and bag limits? ie: rule 5 page 10; Salmonid waters closed to fishing Oct 1-Dec 31? And since you'd be in a boat, 2 lines / person?

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From: "Bryant, Robert" <[email protected]>
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Subject: RE: tipups in open water??
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:22:47 -0400

        I'm not sure what the question is unless your question is on the subject line. You can not use tip ups in open water...they are only allowed through the ice.  Not sure how you would use them anyway unless they were on some kind of floating platform?  As far as # of lines that you can use I believe it is going to remain as two allowed...but it may be changing to 1 for trolling in Lake Trout Lakes...there is a current proposal to make it that way.
Sincerely,
 
Lt. Robert Bryant

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 Sorry, I thought I sent a link to a YOUtube video of using foam pipe insulation on the crossbars of a tipup to float it. It sounds like a set line, but it would be within sight and attention if you were in a boat nearby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFfDQAIFJks

[rockhound57]

RE: tipups in open water?? 
From: Robert Bryant, Lt. <[email protected]>   
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Sent: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 09:05

  It would be illegal to use even within sight.  It does not fit the definition of angling.  There is a law that gives specific allowance for tip-ups through the ice.
 
Thanks,
 
Lt. Robert Bryant

Sorry, newfoundpleasure , guess you'll have to put them away for ice only; bummer, it does look like a good way to spread out your coverage
 

[newfoundpleasure]

Thanks for the post Rockhound.
I'll put em away.
Time for some downriggers I guess before late July.

NB