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Offline icechipper

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hello and thanx to all
« on: Feb 17, 2004, 06:39 PM »
first of all let me say that i have been visiting this site for some time now(just decided to register). this is only my second year ice fishing although i have been warm weather fishing for as long as i can remember. last season i did ok. minimal equipment/knowhow. but this season i can honestly say that i have done ten times better and it is mostly due to all of the great ideas, techniques and advice from all of you on this site. just browsing through the forum archive has answered all of my questions and then some. thank you all so much for helping to teach me the fine art of hardwater fishing.
                        sincerely,
                                       icechipper
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Offline BASSandICE65

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #1 on: Feb 17, 2004, 07:00 PM »
Welcome Icechipper lot of good folks here with a wealth of knowledge and fishing experience.  ;D
  



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Offline LoneWolf

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #2 on: Feb 17, 2004, 07:07 PM »
Welcome to the site icechipper ! ;D
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #3 on: Feb 17, 2004, 07:15 PM »
Welcome to the Shanty Icechipper. Glad to hear you found some value in the rantings of a bunch of crazy ice fishers.

RG
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #4 on: Feb 17, 2004, 07:35 PM »
welcome chip how did you mange to keep quiet this long?  have fun!!

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #5 on: Feb 17, 2004, 08:33 PM »
caution you may get the hooked and you will never find the cure!! and then you will wander this site for EVER. just like the rest of us.

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #6 on: Feb 17, 2004, 08:33 PM »
Iceshipper - As a relative newbie to the site myself, there is'nt a day that goes by that I don't check this site out.  I have learned a lot and have even taken some tips about jigs and applied them on fishing trips and found out what works best for me under certain cirsumstances.  It won't be long before you have your own personal style and favorite technique, one that you will forever be tinkering with.  Good luck!!

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #7 on: Feb 18, 2004, 02:24 AM »
Hi icechipper, Ice fishing is bad for your wallet!!!! But well worth it!!! ;D
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #8 on: Feb 18, 2004, 06:24 AM »
Welcome icechipper. There are a ton of people here with two tons of info available. Have a good time but remember, when you start spending many hours a day here  you'll have to join a local support group.
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #9 on: Feb 18, 2004, 07:01 AM »
Welcome to the shanty!

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #10 on: Feb 18, 2004, 07:33 AM »
welcome icechipper  you've been warned!! this site is addictive, but at least you can share with all of us.. grumpy

Offline jigginstick

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #11 on: Feb 18, 2004, 07:39 AM »
 Welcome Ice chipper, your hooked. lol

Offline Icenutter

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #12 on: Feb 18, 2004, 07:58 AM »
Another hooked for life. ;D
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #13 on: Feb 18, 2004, 08:09 AM »
Welcome icechipper. Pull up a 5 gallon pail, open up a beer and set a spell. We're talking fishing here.
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #14 on: Feb 18, 2004, 08:57 AM »
Another male has found paradise but probably will soon forget the name of his wife and kids, his job, bills and payments, his favorite porn sites, personal hygene and so forth. He will slowly fade from their memories as well and soon, will drift quietly away with his 5 gallon buckets filled with tip ups, hot cocoa,sandwiches and his dog. He will go to a better place of never ending ice fishing, horrid fishing lies, smelly shacks and eternal cribbage games. Truely a man's world. ;D
Good thing about prisons- they reduce the potential number of fisherman on the ice!

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #15 on: Feb 18, 2004, 10:25 AM »
Welcome to the site Icechipper. You will be addicted lol
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #16 on: Feb 18, 2004, 01:11 PM »
Icechipper, welcome, you can pull a stool up next to me in the shanty, This is a very good place to be us young guys can learn alot from the ol'guys and sometimes we can even pass on some new tricks to them. GOD I LOVE THIS PLACE

Offline icechipper

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #17 on: Feb 18, 2004, 05:21 PM »
wow! all this good info and a real warm welcome. ya'll are too much. and yes, i am already hooked. wheres this support group being held? my wife would like me to participate,she says maybe i might gain a little of my sanity back but i told her not a chance untill ice out! thanx again.


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bugman-Greg

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #18 on: Feb 18, 2004, 05:25 PM »
Icechipper, even when Ice out comes, you don't gain any sainity back, all you do is wish for ice again and keep looking foreward for the next year, it is a never ending circle. Welcome to the elite group of HARDWATER NUTS  ;D  :'(

Offline icechipper

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #19 on: Feb 18, 2004, 05:41 PM »
bugman, you are all too correct. i've already been making plans for next hardwater season. got it marked on the calendar. gonna go back down to my old stompin' grounds in new baltimore and fish anchor bay off of lake st. clair. i know in the summer there is some really nice fish to be had and i've been told the ice fishing is even better but out of the ten years i lived there i never went icefishing once! thats alright it took me a while but i'm catchin' on.
Get jiggy with it!

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #20 on: Feb 18, 2004, 05:42 PM »
Howdy.

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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #21 on: Feb 18, 2004, 09:15 PM »
Your name is Icechipper not Iceshipper, two very different meanings.  Sorry bout that Icechipper.
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Re: hello and thanx to all
« Reply #22 on: Feb 20, 2004, 11:08 AM »
you know you got it bad when your eyes glaze over when you look at the ice floating in your drink.  lol

 



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