MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
But i remember reading about some jack wagon in minnesota who took his brand new truck on the ice and his bird dog. They listed him as an ice fisherman in the news but i doubt it. Any how he was lighting half sticks of dynamite and throwing them to blow holes in the ice. His bird dog jumbed out of truck to retrieve what he was throwing. As a good dog would do. As the dog runs back toward him with said lit stick he panicked and shot dog with birdshot. Poor dog didnt know what to do and hid under truck. Kaboom. New truck gone and even worse the poor dog. Very sad story i love my dogs. Needless to say guy recieved plenty of tickets and hopefully jail time. Does anyone ever remember hearing this.
Not got any real good ones of my own, other than a couple break throughs in thigh high water. But i remember reading about some jack wagon in minnesota who took his brand new truck on the ice and his bird dog. They listed him as an ice fisherman in the news but i doubt it. Any how he was lighting half sticks of dynamite and throwing them to blow holes in the ice. His bird dog jumbed out of truck to retrieve what he was throwing. As a good dog would do. As the dog runs back toward him with said lit stick he panicked and shot dog with birdshot. Poor dog didnt know what to do and hid under truck. Kaboom. New truck gone and even worse the poor dog. Very sad story i love my dogs. Needless to say guy recieved plenty of tickets and hopefully jail time. Does anyone ever remember hearing this.
1993, fishing in Wabasha, MN - my friend (a grumpy old guy named Max) got angry with me cause he thought I stole a girl he liked. She had just moved on our street recently and had gotten both of our attention. Anyway, Max thought she liked him and he took her to dinner. Soon after, she had me over for dinner and (for me) some long missed, bedroom desert afterwards. When Max found out, he got so angry with me that he rammed his truck into my shed, while I was jigging in it, and pushed it all the way towards the unsafe ice. I managed to jump out just in time to see it sink.
I believe the girl was Gina Lollabrigada (spelling??) in Grumpy Old Man 2 but maybe they stole that screen play from you??
Don't worry. No dogs were harmed in the making of this story. It is an urban legend that was making the rounds on the internet some time ago (see: http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp).
Good reading maninblack...maybe I'll see you out on the ice sometime!
i had tip ups fly out of the hole and the hook would catch on the edge of the hole and the tip up would fly across the ice until it was spooled.
Ann Margaret in the first movie Sophia Loren joined in the second
I have two...My first shanty (Clam 2000) was known for icing up if you took it out one day and neglected to set it up that night to dry. It was a chore getting those poles to extend the next day. I had it partially up on Blind Sodus with two heaters going inside. My rear end hit the prop pole and the shanty fell on top of the heater. I was inside and it was on fire. It did a number on the shanty...thankfully they were only going for $150 back then. The second, and much more serious, was when I went through the ice with my four wheeler. My babysitter's son was on the back and we just happened to stop over an iced-over gas hole on Oneida Lake. The left two tires settled and I didn't think much of it since I figured I had just broken through the crust. Well, I looked over the edge and that is when the hole opened up. We were treading water in 20 ft of water before we knew it. We both managed to scramble out and had a long, cold (12 degrees and breezy) mile walk back to Williams Beach. We recovered everything except my Fish TV a few days later. Many thanks to the awesome peo,ple on here and my buddies John and Mitch who offered assistance with everything.
Forgot to mention...if you're wondering about my screen name, reference story #1
One of the weirdest things happened a few years ago on one of the small Madison county lakes. It was late winter and there was very little snow, and we were in the middle of a warm spell. The lake level had dropped quite a bit and we had to cross about 10-20 yards of lake bottom to get to the ice. As we reached the ice you could see black things crawling slowly on the ice every 10-15 yards. Our end of the lake was covered in crawfish that must have found themelves awake and high and dry and tried to make it back to the water. I picked 25-30 of them and put them in my bucket with some water, and put a couple on tip-ups. No luck so I put the rest back in the lake. Never saw that happen before or after and I've been ice fishing for about 50 years. My dad was with me and he had never seen that either. The crows and sea gull had a feast that year for a couple days.I was on Oneida Lake with a work mate 1 year and had walked a long way out when storm hit - neither one of us were that familiar with the lake and we couldn't see shore in any direction so we packed up all our gear and sat there till there was a slight break and we could see shore and high tailed it back.Had a plane take off right on our tip-ups last year on Erieville res. - that might have been the only flags we got all day - haha.Fell in once almost up to my waist on my way on the ice - minnows flying everywhere - picked everything up and fished for 3 1/2 hours - left when I knew I was wiggling my toes but couldn't feel them - took the whole ride home with the heat cranking to start to get some feeling back in them.Good times !
I was on silver lake in Wyoming county a few years back. Ice was perfect no snow at all so I figured it was a good opportunity to walk a ways to try some new spots since the drag was so easy. I had a cabi style shanty so I unfolded it got set up snd began fishing. After an hour or so I saw the sun was now gone and an ominous dark cloud was coming. I thought nothing of it but soon the wind picked up and I began to slowly slide until my hole had disappeared. I quickly realized what was happening but too late. When I opened the door to break down my hut I created a wind sail and I began moving quickly. I thought quickly and decided if I dove out of the hut but held on it couldn't possibly drag me. Wrong my hut was cruising down the lake with me holding on dragging behind it. I had to wait till I reached shore a good 1/4 mile down the lake. Folks having their morning coffee got a show that day.
here is one for you I live in maine I have icefished my whole life about 20 years ago myself and 3 buddys on a sub zero superbowl sunday morning we headed to parker pond for some early morning fishing with all kinds of ice we had fished this spot many times before but due to rain the days before the road to t he camp that we park at was all ice and undriveable so we choose to drive our 2 door car to our spot from the boat launch still being dark out and a little water on the ice we headed across the lake feeling uneasy cause I never drive out in vechicles on the ice I told everyone to roll down there windows thank god we did we was coming to our spot something did not look right as we drove the car into a open pressure ridge that was about 60 feet wide we went down about 40 feet thankfully we all finaly made it out the windows and surfaced in the middle of the hole and was able to get each other up on to the ice now here is where it gets crazy still being dark out we spot a camp that had lights on so we headed to it to get warm and get help when we got to the camp there was nobody there we still went in and stripped down we took the bedding off to wrap up in and called the wardens and family in front of the camp was a bunch of traps (tipups) frozen in the ice there was a dog running around the camp and in the camp was a crockpot that was on and burnt seafood in it still no people the wardens came out took our statement wardens were also wondering where the owners were we left them a note with our #s explaining what happened and that we would pay for any damages a couple of days went by and the warden called me asking questions about the camp and if we had turned the heat up or if we made a fire in the wood stove ect. I thought oh no the camp burnt down or something I asked him what was going on and he said the people that own the camp are still missing and they think they might be in the same hole that we drove into sure enough our car was ontop of a jeep with the two owners a girlfriend and her 16 year old daughter apparently they went for a night ride and went into the same hole as us unfortunately they did not make it out. I have not driven on the ice in a car or truck since
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