
Once the ice fishing season gets going the Flippin Lid is going to fly off the shelves.
That’s the prediction of Maple Lake inventor, Mike Sahli.
Sahli is certain his revolutionary new ice hole cover, the Flippin Lid will be just the thing for anglers who have ever come close to dropping their keys or phone down the hole, or those who have lost fish trying to keep valuables from going into the drink.
The cover went on the market in September after two years of development and three prototypes, and even though the ice fishing season has been a bit of a bust so far this season, Sahli predicts, “The minute they get fish houses on the lake, word will get out.”
The Flippin Lid has several key features that make it different from other ice hole covers, Sahli said. For one, you don’t have to bend over to move the lid out of the way when you get a bite. That’s a big benefit because it’s usually in the process of bending over that those valuables slide out of the pocket. Instead, the angler has only to step lightly on a button that pops the lid open by spring action. The other key features are the way the cover breaks in half as it opens, and the slit that the line runs along as it opens to eliminate tangling.
Word has already spread via tick tock where a video of it in action has attracted the attention of celebrities Babe Winkelman and Ted Nugent. Now it’s only a matter of Mother Nature cooperating.
Sahli said he was ice fishing on Red Lake when he came up with the idea. He was using one of those covers that you just set down on the hole then have to reach down and remove when a fish bites, he said.
“I had my phone in my pocket and a nice walleye on the line. I was trying to move the cover and save my phone from going in and I lost the walleye,” he said.