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I'll go out on a limb and say that while i agree that in most all situations nobody should relieve themselves in public. if I'm out icefishing, and its all guys on the ice Ive got no problem taking a stroll to the shoreline to go water some cattails. the way i figure is that if you can't see the stream or the business end whats the big deal ? not like human urine is going to do any harm to the lake anyways.As for on the open ice if i absolutely have to, i will go away from the group out to where nobody fishes and nobody can see me, and kneel down when i do it. i will only do this if a stroll to the shoreline is out of question and all the houses are far enough away to where they cannot tell what exactly it is I'm doing. With the way the minnow bucket likes to spill in the jet sled I'm surely not going to transport a coffee can full of territory marker.
I use a plastic ice cream bucket. Snap the lid on and put it in my sled. We never go on the ice here in South Dakota because it may stampede the sheep. They are nervous enough around here. I blame stumper.
I don't care where anyone leaks, but don't leave dump bags and piles of scat out on the ice! I stepped in a pile some freak left on Mille Lacs last year! Dog crap is bad enough, but human droppings! Try digging that out of the tread of your snow boots!!:sick:
They are starting to write you up if they see any yellow snow around your hut here in Ontario now.
I just pee in the hole I'm fishing in , that way I don't need to salt the fish while cooking.
One of my favorite lakes has restrooms on shore. I think it is well worth the walk. Not worth the smell, but worth it nonetheless.
Coffee can...and it's tougher for us ladies to disguise our calls of nature...I park the RAV in such a way that I have a bit of privacy those moments.
if in the open John BZ has the idea, kneel down like your checking something,
No thanks. Especially when there's no snow on the ice; before I got done, the puddle would be soaking the knees of my Carhartts.
Hope you can take a little ribbing! You just gotta know a bunch of guys are just dying to type things like, coming up a little short? All in fun, happy fishing.