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Anyone run into Tommy Chong look alike at cow banks this season?Dude is about 6 maybe 6' 1" slim late 50 early 60's and thinkshe owns lots of acreage? He came at my buddy an I yesterdayflaring, screaming away what a knucklehead. My buddy was going tocut a perch hole with a power auger about 30 yards fromhis tip up. He was a step or a shove away from getting decked.Will somebody lend him a little legal in VT an tell him to chill.
Ice fishing is supposed to be fun. People like that can ruin a good day. Normally when I am pan fishing I'll ask if it is OK to cut into a tip up spread. Almost always it is OK. The reality is we all have the right to fish anywhere we want to. Reminds me of an old story my father told me. Many decades ago he and my uncle were perch fishing somewhere up in the Islands. They had a shanty and it was getting to be near the end of the year. The wind was blowing hard and they were toasty warm in the shanty. They heard some noise and opened the door and a guy was right behind their shanty drilling a hole to get out of the wind. There most likely was some beer in the equation and Dad said with all the area out here in the lake you have to drill right next to our shanty. The guy apologized and left. The end of the day came and all the beer was probably long gone. The wind was worse than ever and they knew they had to drag the shanty off the ice. They broke it loose and started out bringing it across the bay to the only low spot and field to get it up to the road. They finally got it off the ice and started along the field headed to the road. Along came a guy and it turned out to be the same guy they gave a hard time to out on the lake. He said with all the lake shore why do you have to drag that shanty over my field. He was adamant that they bring it back to the ice and take it off elsewhere. I guess it took a couple hours to get it back on the trailer. What goes around comes around.
Cool storyLord of the perch
This would be a worthwhile story if it were Tommy.