Show your wife this

[maddogg]

Show this to your wife and she will probably never complain about what you spend on fishing again.
www.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303519404579355112491789816-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwNzEwNDcyW 

[3300]

thanks for the share!
i did show the wife and she said she would fish like that

then we got to talking about what kinds of people have that kind of money.
not us
we fish from a tent

[Sawtooth]

I was out on a high mountain lake in Colorado a few weeks ago (Lake John) and a guy dragged one out there with his ATV that looked just like these.  Retracted up his wheels and went inside.  Pretty amazing.  Glad to see this to fully explain what I saw at John.

[Pindrifter]

Wife Seen it a said Stupid!  I loved it Thanks.

[Carl.j.o]

Cost more than my house! Maybe I should have got one of these instead.

[gil_lunkage]

Doesn't everybody have shantys like that.  Hahaha!!  My biggest question is what about homeowners insurance...

[Whopper Stopper]

Cost more than my house! Maybe I should have got one of these instead.

That would be my house if I brought it home.

Maybe they have a real good financing program     

        WS

[TinyTim]

Don't have a wife or g/f, maybe I'd find a good one if I had one of these...lmao

[WyoMinFisher]

Makes for a nice night on the ice with or without the wife!!!

[anglure]

  .....................W OOT  WOOT !!

[rags]

showed my wife and she said maybe one for 20k lol she knows i'm too big of a tightbutt to buy one

[Skipper]

The ice castle dealer is right here in Milaca. Those things are pretty sweet, many come with air conditioning! 

[lefty2053]

I wish I had their money and they had more!

[Rebelss]

They are nice...but her statement on the second house shown bothers me a bit. "At 5500 lbs, the house is light enough to be towed out onto EARLY Winter ice"....uh, you go first...

[thinktwicez71]

wow , that is impressive 

[315stickbow]

Might as well make it buoyant too! House boat on wheels for ice fishing? :p

[Raquettedacker]

Ok very nice but how do you drill holes inside a $40,000 "shack" ??       

[Rebelss]

Ok very nice but how do you drill holes inside a $40,000 "shack" ??       

VERY carefully.

[Sikaman]

I'd enjoy the hole in the bathroom!

[jonny boy]

i see brown trout ?  o now  grab the gaft.

[2FishinBuddies]

Ok very nice but how do you drill holes inside a $40,000 "shack" ??       

My wife would gladly clean up afterwards She would be packing on wed for the weekend if my shack looked like that

[lefty2053]

I showed it to my wife. She said that is just stupid. Asked me why anyone would spend that kind of money on a shack? I told her because they had the money to waste on whatever they wanted to waste it on.
How many Crappie would you have to catch to pay off a $55,000.00 Ice house? And what if you parked in in a dead zone? Those people are insane!

[Monticatgeek]

this article only talked about the high end houses. you can get a smaller version of these that may sleep a few less people but they start at around $13000. the one I was thinking of getting in the next year or two would be in the 15,000 to 16,000 range. they finance them as RV's and most loans can go out 7 to 10 years. if I do end up getting one I will be for sure adding a air conditioner to it so it can double as a camper in the summer time. this is the only way I could justify the cost of it.  If  it was just for ice fishing I would just buy a larger full thermal flip over and a new Arctic Cat Bear cat snowmobile instead and have money left over. 

[maddogg]

Ok very nice but how do you drill holes inside a $40,000 "shack" ??       

You don't, you have the Butler do it!!!!

[PerchAssault]

They are now classified as an RV if they have plumbing, and also may qualify as a second home, like a cabin or regular 5th wheel or RV.  You can get long term financing, tax deductions and use it year round. I was on Devils Lake a week ago and every 5th hard side out there were these type of houses...maybe some of the smaller more affordable ones were more common, but there were giants too...If you ice fish, and are in the market for a camper, motorhome, RV, why wouldn't you consider one of these?

[JBL44]

Ya know, I am retired and on a fixed income so I surely can't afford anything like this to persue my favorite winter time sport, even if I could it would'nt be feasible in our part of the country because of the varing ice conditions. First lots of snow then maybe a shot of sub zero temps, then a thawing & more snow which adds up to my major nemeses, slush! I for one would hate to get one of those things stuck out on a lake with only a 4-wheeler to try to pull it out. Another thing we Hadley ever get any more that 10-12 of ice at any time here, compared to where I grew up, Northern Mn. So, I will stick to my Clam 2-man portable & Buddy heater!

[chasdc1]

Wife wasn't impressed but the kids went nuts.