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Now, for game fish holes, you're going to need a substantially larger hole. You want
to start with a seven, maybe even an eight inch auger hole. Notice the width across this
hole, after it's been scooped up, is approximately two knuckle-widths across. Now, some of the
fish that we catch up here in the North can be large lake trout, or what some places call
toge. Toge can be, and lake trout can be, as large as 36 3/4 pounds, up here in the
North. You're not going to get a 36 3/4 pound lake trout through one of these holes when
it has a girth of fifteen inches. You may wind up having to drill other holes around
that seven inch hole. It's got to be large enough to be able to put a tip-up in, like
so, and still be able to pull that tip-up through, grab the line, and play the fish.
Once the fish is on the line, you're going to need to gently pull it up through the hole,
head first. Gently pulling it up, the head--when you get the head up through, you can gill
it or lip it or gaff it, and pull it straight up through. But, with a girth of twelve to
fourteen or fifteen inches, you may need an even larger hole than a seven inch, which
means you're going to have to drill several holes around that one central hole.