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Maine => Ice Fishing Maine => Topic started by: gamefisher on Jan 25, 2023, 04:38 AM
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Not even a full moon and what a crazy week it has been in the Shanty with appearances from icecruiser, nativetrout, and bosshog.! And its only Wednesday! Great to see.. what's next, billditrite and rude the dude show up? ;D :o @)
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Those names are a blast from the past.
Maybe you will get a visit from Buddha
and Shrinkage next .
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Those names are a blast from the past.
Maybe you will get a visit from Buddha
and Shrinkage next .
FLAG, mehunter, fishpaws, fshnfool, fishing surveyor, threecar and the list goes on. Many great trips and beers with some super guys! @)
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Good morning, and I hope everyone remains safe on the ice, where there is ice.
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Don’t forget bout blufinforme and ifishi
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Don’t forget bout blufinforme and ifishi
Frozen Nutts was a hoot! ;D
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What about wormwiggler? His post about the 'Huge crack spotted on Sabattus' made him a legend on here! :D
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What about wormwiggler? His post about the 'Huge crack spotted on Sabattus' made him a legend on here! :D
That was a classic, it had a picture too.
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Ha ha I remember that post . I can’t
Unsee that image of that dude on the atv.
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Tiny Tim!
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That was a classic, it had a picture too.
Had a "Big Jake " license plate with a big jake on and a lot of crack!
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I searched for that photo. Sadly, it appears to have been lost to the photo bucket money grab.
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havent heard those names in a long time. fished with many. still talk with builditrite occasionally. once we get decent ice we should put together a old school meet and greet. we arent getting any younger. ;)
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I check in on the iceshanty from time to time.
Some great reads.
I do most my posting now on Facebook.
Lots of great pics and fun times the last several years.
Tight lines everyone.
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same to you.
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I check in on the iceshanty from time to time.
Some great reads.
I do most my posting now on Facebook.
Lots of great pics and fun times the last several years.
Tight lines everyone.
Legend!
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the man that taught me how to catch pike trolling laced smelts on 6lb. floro. yes we caught some up to 15lbs that way. only he would think of trying that.
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Thanks guys.
I've always enjoyed fishing.
Hope the fever never leaves me. Lol
Wishing you guys the best on your next trip afield.
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Ha! What a great post! The board seemed more active back then.
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it sure was.
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Ha! What a great post! The board seemed more active back then.
Like I said, I see alot of good posts and info on here, just not as many die hard fishermen posting as there use to be.
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FLAG, mehunter, fishpaws, fshnfool, fishing surveyor, threecar and the list goes on. Many great trips and beers with some super guys! @)
I was just thinking about those guys. Saltyshores, out4trout, MG39 also
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You guys need to be careful what you say or youll scare off more posters. Thats probaly where some of those old guys went.
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You guys need to be careful what you say or youll scare off more posters. Thats probaly where some of those old guys went.
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Saltyshores, out4trout, MG39
I think of these old timers all the time, Where are they?
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some of us are still here
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Saltyshores, out4trout, MG39
I think of these old timers all the time, Where are they?
Hi guys. I am alive and well at 75. Talked to MG39 a month ago.
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Just trolling by…
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Went up and checked on Mg39 today hes still above ground. ready to get out.
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Seems to be quite a resurgence in AARP members around here, great to see. @)
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I,m glad im still young and not an OldTimer
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Just got my AARP card in the mail actually. ;D
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Make the best of it, Its really a shorter life than one realizes you find this out when you get in your eighties,
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Make the best of it, Its really a shorter life than one realizes you find this out when you get in your eighties,
I'll know when I'm in my eighties, someone will probably be reading these posts to me. Lol
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Make the best of it, Its really a shorter life than one realizes you find this out when you get in your eighties,
Ill never see 80, so I have to giver all I got now.
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One step at a time ,no Smoking and more fishing
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Good advice to live by. I might add never give up.
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FLAG, mehunter, fishpaws, fshnfool, fishing surveyor, threecar and the list goes on. Many great trips and beers with some super guys! @)
Those were the days!!! Miss those days!
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Hey Gamefisher,
Funny you should mention "Rude the Dude". I have a story to tell about an ice fishing day trip that just the two of us took up to Kingsbury Pond in late March of 2012. He had permission for private access right off a friend's camp which was right on the waterfront. We used aluminum truck ramps to get his 4 wheeler and tow sled onto the ice as the shoreline ice was already gone out to 3', but we managed to get on the ice. We got there around 7 am with Temps in the upper 30's. What made me nervous was the forecast predicting Temps in the afternoon reaching into the lower 80's!
Rude assured me we would be alright the night before and I trusted his knowledge of the Lake with existing ice conditions.
All went well in the morning, got our traps in and Rude caught a legal splake or two as I recall. I had brought my Coleman stove to cook deer steak from a buck I had taken the previous fall. We cooked up the deer steak around 11am and had lunch as we were pretty hungary at that point having no breakfast to start with. Right after lunch the Temps started really climbing into the 70's. At this point Rude said something I will never forget as he was looking way out at one of his furthest traps out on the lake. He said look at the "rippling over the surface of the ice". Mind you this was a brilliant sunny day with bluebird skies and hardly a cloud in sight. I saw what he was talking about and we both sprang into action to get our traps out and got the hell off that ice! On our way home stopped at a convenience store in Skowhegan and temperature was 82 at 1:30 pm. That wavy, rippling motion of the ice that I could see coming towards us from a long way off and realizing I was standing on it, well that's something you never forget.
Stay safe out there, no fish, no matter how big is worth dying for!
EmeraldShiner