Recently while stalking Facebook’s of fellow angers, I saw a pic of a rod that was had these green bands holding a reel on the handle. After doing a little digging and asking some friends I found out the product was made by Cold Snap. Cold Snap is known for their very slick hands free auger cover, which is now on Jiffy augers.You can also buy them to fit Strikemaster and Ardisam Augers.
So the idea of a product that holds a reel to an ice rod without damaging the cork is something just about every ice fishermen wants. There have been many products that have come out in years past that claimed this. Most in the short run that was true but in the long run something was left behind. These products also didn’t lend themselves to being able to easily take a reel off a rod and move it to another one or for maintenance
The Cold Snap Reel Wrap on the other hand really doesn’t mess up your cork. These super strong bands hold your reel securely to the rods handle. So tightly it leaves an imprint of the reels foot into the cork. If you want to change the reel, you just simple have to roll the bands off the reels foot and the reel comes off in less than 3 seconds.
On a panfish rod it is best to use two to 4 of the bands to hold the reel on to the rod. But while testing this product on my walleye and pike rods I found that you had to place a third on the back part of the reel foot to keep the reel from leaving the cork with a very extreme amount of pressure. When I say extreme I am talking near breakage of the rod extreme. But in the real world if you have your drag set right you should never really reach this point.
Overall I thought this was a great product. Each Reel Wrap kit has enough in it to do 4 setups. Make sure you save the blue cone that these come in. That cone makes getting the bands on to the rods very easy.
If you would like to purchase the Cold Snap Reel Wrap visit my friends over at Sportsmen’s Direct. They currently have them in stock and ready to ship out.
Quality
I was unable to break one of these bands in the time I test them and I tried several times. There is nothing else to my knowledge on the market like it so didn’t have anything else to compare it to , but it seemed top notch and work has stated.
Reliability
I would feel very comfortable using these on pretty much all my ice rod setups. I can’t find a way they can fail you unless the bands break which I was unable to make happen in any real world scenario that a fishermen would run into.
Value & Price
The price is very reasonable, spend this much money on electrical tape to hold my reels on and only get 4 or 5 reels out each roll of what I use. So it matches up nicely with products I use and is cheaper some of the products that “don’t mess up your cork handle”
Referability
I think this item should be on every ice fisherman list this year of new gear to get.
