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Ice Fishing
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| October 9, 2008, 21:14 |
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Re: Ice Fishing
I fish through the ice for saltwater smelt ,good eating,can be a great time ,when its not too cold and the fish are biting other times in can be not so much fun say when the wind is howlin and too dang cold and the fish wont bite ,I remember one night it was 10 below zero F and I was catching them like crazy inside my ice fishing shack ,yall know what 10 degree below zero feels like at 2.00 AM on a frozen river .
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| October 9, 2008, 22:02 |
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40something
57 / female
In the Sun, Arizona, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
I am not sure that is more fun than the laying on a dock, warm sun on your face, dangling your feet in the water. There is something about ice freezing parts that sounds like a bad idea.
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| October 9, 2008, 23:56 |
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Re: Ice Fishing
the only thing i caught the one time a went ice fishing...was a cold!!!! (yes, i do live in MINNESOTA, born and raised...but i've only been ice fishing once!!   )
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| October 10, 2008, 00:28 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
I used to almost live on the ice in the winter. We always had ice houses and we where never cold. Caught lots of bottle bass, and few other fish too. 
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| October 10, 2008, 10:22 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
yep that season is coming again and hope for 10 inches of Ice by Christmas so we can take the shack out on the lake.nothing like a little cabin on the lake. we are warm as toast inside,we also have a clam shell that we load in the 4 wheel drive truck and we too catch a lot of bottle bass and a lot of gill and crappies, pike and what ever may bite .old farms says that 10 inches of ice will hold a explorer and so far so good , i remember the time we were walking on a inch of ice chasing first freeze gills never again.I'm still nervous on 3 inches of ice and just don't like seeing the bottom of the hole.....lol
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| October 10, 2008, 14:21 |
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KINKYINTHEFALLS
56 / male
wild and wonderful, West Virginia, US
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Re: Re: Ice Fishing
QUOTE (ashkats @ October 10, 2008, 14:21)yep that season is coming again and hope for 10 inches of Ice by Christmas so we can take the shack out on the lake.nothing like a little cabin on the lake. we are warm as toast inside,we also have a clam shell that we load in the 4 wheel drive truck and we too catch a lot of bottle bass and a lot of gill and crappies, pike and what ever may bite .old farms says that 10 inches of ice will hold a explorer and so far so good , i remember the time we were walking on a inch of ice chasing first freeze gills never again.I'm still nervous on 3 inches of ice and just don't like seeing the bottom of the hole.....lol
Ashkats I don't feel comfortable on less than 4" of ice I myself don't go out of my way to get out ice fishing, but my son loves it. So I do spend my time on the ice.
As long as you have a hut and heater it's not bad at all. I even have to strip of the outter layers in there!
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| October 11, 2008, 20:18 |
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Re: Ice Fishing
Who the hell fishes for ice? 
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| October 12, 2008, 19:06 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
cool just watch out for Mr heater, it keeps ya toasty warm in there, i can sit around in a tee shirt at -25 and with the stove ya can make dogs and beans or what ever else ya might want. wouldn't bee the first time we stayed out on the lake in a b,blizzard
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| October 12, 2008, 21:29 |
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Re: Re: Ice Fishing
QUOTE (ashkats @ October 12, 2008, 21:29)cool just watch out for Mr heater, it keeps ya toasty warm in there, i can sit around in a tee shirt at -25 and with the stove ya can make dogs and beans or what ever else ya might want. wouldn't bee the first time we stayed out on the lake in a b,blizzard
I have a silly question ashkats.... if you use a heater while ice fishing in those little house huts my question is.... how does the ice hold up from not melting and you not falling in that cold icey water? 
xox 
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| October 12, 2008, 21:35 |
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Re: Re: Re: Ice Fishing
QUOTE (ticaD @ October 12, 2008, 21:35) QUOTE (ashkats @ October 12, 2008, 21:29)cool just watch out for Mr heater, it keeps ya toasty warm in there, i can sit around in a tee shirt at -25 and with the stove ya can make dogs and beans or what ever else ya might want. wouldn't bee the first time we stayed out on the lake in a b,blizzard
I have a silly question ashkats.... if you use a heater while ice fishing in those little house huts my question is.... how does the ice hold up from not melting and you not falling in that cold icey water?
xox
While they have thier 4,000 lb truck parked right next to it. 
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| October 12, 2008, 21:37 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
it has a plywood floor in it and is insulated on all sides with 2 inch foam , it like being in a ice cooler with windows and has paneling inside and skis under the whole works so ya can move it,i ruined 3 jackets with Mr heater.
and ya my 4000lb truck is right next to us. we even have a TV in it, it all runs on 12 volts. my bro had hes on a different lake and were were fishing with tip ups and we got raided by the dnr while playing poker....
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| October 12, 2008, 21:47 |
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Re: Re: Ice Fishing
QUOTE (ashkats @ October 12, 2008, 21:47)it has a plywood floor in it and is insulated on all sides with 2 inch foam , it like being in a ice cooler with windows and has paneling inside and skis under the whole works so ya can move it,i ruined 3 jackets with Mr heater.
and ya my 4000lb truck is right next to us. we even have a TV in it, it all runs on 12 volts. my bro had hes on a different lake and were were fishing with tip ups and we got raided by the dnr while playing poker....
OH MY!! That's alot of weight, I just can't see myself doing it, I'd be freaking thinking I would fall in. I probably feel that way due to having a funky experience as a kid ice skating on a pond, and hearing the ice cracking right under my feet, I must have skated probably 100 miles per hour getting my ass off the pond.
xox
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| October 12, 2008, 22:00 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Ice Fishing
there is a lot on noise when the moon phase goes though, there is somewhat of a tide even on a lake ,the ice makes noise and cracks and stuff the water goes up and down the holes, but one time we had rain and then 1 foot and a half of snow we walked out to the shack pulling a bogon and were going slop slop though the mess the was about 10 inches of water and we got out there i drilled the hole and the water started going down like the battub all evening , we watched the holes get bigger from 6 to about ten or 12 inches and the ice was thick about 28 inches .all the water ion top the lake was going down the holes i was worried about the shack falling in ...so we left, it dropped back down to -20 and we drove right out again....
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| October 12, 2008, 22:14 |
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