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This years winner and winning pike look the same a last years. You make the call.www.schroonlakeregion.com/blog/2017/01/anglers-ice
Seriously, you're criticizing the organizers? Give me a break! Its each individuals responsibility to decide whether its safe for them to go on the ice, nobody forced them. Going through the ice is ALWAYS a risk you take when ice fishing, regardless of how much ice there is. Who's responsible for the guy going swimming on Harris Bay last week, there wasn't any derby there? This is one of the biggest problems with our society today, someone is always looking for others to blame for what happens to them. Take responsibility for your own actions and their consequences.
I've seen eyeballs freeze real quick in super cold weather.
For sure. If you keep a fish out of water too long that can happen when it is single digits. It would take som serious balls to weigh in the same fish one year later at the same derby. Also it would look amazing for a year old in the freezer fish
With single digit temps on sat and Sunday starting off below zero, everything would freeze pretty quick. The few perch I got froze instantly.
I made a post about a hour ago and thought better about it and deleted it....but others are saying my same thoughts, so I will just post my opinion... Obviously same guy....and obviously two different fish. The non frozen fish has a complete different pattern then the frozen one. No arguement there....where I get suspiscious, is when I look closely at the frozen one..Anyone that has wrapped and frozen a fish for some time will know exactly what I am talking about. Look at the tail fin, dorsal fin and other fins. If you notice, the fine are only halfway iced up. The tail fin is clear as day to menwith a perfectly straight ice edge...the way those fine look suggest the fish was wrapped with suran wrap, aminum foil or something....and I am saying that is because when you unwrap a fish, specifically the tips of the fins will have the ice ripped off, or they will thaw first from the lack of ice from being in-wrapped. Also noticed the back...pretty clear of ice. Also a indicator of being wrapped. If that fish was left to freeze freshly on the ice, it would be frozen equally, or covered in snow etc. a big northern will flop around for some time.... I'm not seeing any signs that the fish was freshly thrown on the ice IMO. Nature doesn't make perfectly straight thaw lines...Again, just a observation. I also fail to see a 21lb northern in that frozen one....unless the fish has been frozen for some time and is frozen solid....then you are looking at adding some good weight...even in 10* temps, fish of that size won't freeze to the core for a long time.
you guys must have all voted for HILLARY. lol
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You couldn't be farther from the truth! While I agree that to many people try to blame others today and not take responsibility for their actions there is a huge difference between fishing on your own and fishing in a sponsored tournament. If you have been ice fishing for any length of time you would understand this. They not only said that the lake was and would be safe but said that the people actually checking the lake to really know were wrong and that there was no need to worry. This is very irresponsible, especially since 8 or 9 people went through so they were wrong. People travel a long way for this and other tournaments and have a right to expect honesty from the organizers, not ones only concerned with the money!Jon and Jon were right to do what they did and probably saved some lives and a lot of money for travelers also by actually checking the ice and knowing what to tell people rather than telling people they couldn't check the ice and then removing the web site so people couldn't even check there.....very unprofessional. I have been ice fishing over 35 years and have never heard of a organization that was more concerned about their money than the safety of the participants! Everyone should not even attend next year.
First of all, I'm 53 years old and have been ice fishing since I was 13 so I think I know a little bit about what I'm talking about. Second, I don't care how much you payed, and how far you drove, the ultimate responsibility for your safety is YOU! If you take someone Else's word for it without doing your due diligence and you go through, its on you, period.If I buy tickets to a NY Giants game, and I choose to drive 5 hours to NJ in a blinding snowstorm, smack my car up and hurt myself, that's not the NY Giants fault.
but it is the giants fault if the stadium bleachers are not safe and the knowingly let people sit there, the bleaches collapse and injur people.....isn't itBesides who wants to go see the giants play jk lol