Ice Fishing article in Smithsonian Magazine!

[Pomoxis]

Sometimes a hobby like this can make one feel like a weirdo in other's eyes, especially around here in New Jersey where there are at least 200,000 money jugglers for every ice fisherman. But when our "sport" gets a major exposure in a publication like Smithsonian Magazine, well maybe we are more significant than most people are willing to admit.
Check the February 2006 issue. The article is not a source of info for Ice Fishermen. It is an expose on the significance and extremism of the sport, and just how BIG it is in the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota.
There are some great pictures: inside a super deluxe "shanty", The Annual Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza showing 9,000 entrants without shelters.
We're not so insignificant. I know, you guys in Minnesota already knew that. Now the rest of the world knows it.

[shawner]

     That is good stuff! I remember getting the funnies from people about ice fishing when I was younger here in NY. The sport has grown unbeilievably in the last 20 years and the technology that is incorperated has come a long way since being on a bucket with my mickey mouse boots and a Conesus jig going, looking for flags and trying to stay warm. Then again, I do like to hang outside of the trap a little bit still. I try to get the kids out with us as much as possible, to keep it all going, so they develope an intrest like we did!

[hali-man]

I agree that the exposure is great, but everyone still thinks that we're nuts!  8)

[swantucky]

Hey hali-man, I resemble that remark!!!!

[MikeThePike]

I agree that the exposure is great, but everyone still thinks that we're nuts!  8)

You ice fisherman are nuts, walking on frozen water that may not be safe trying to catch fish you could buy cheaper at the fish market....lol

Who cares who thinks we're nuts? We're out catching fish while they are sitting home watching TV waiting for the ice to melt.

[coldbum]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/february/fishing.php   

[crappieslayer22]

hey .... we mabe crazy somr people call us stupid but atleast where not sitting home being bored and doing other stuff like eating every thing in the house

[coldbum]

I dunno, I think I eat more on the ice.. all the great food tastes better when your working the vexilar in -30 deg F windchills!

[Pomoxis]

Thanks for the link coldbum!

[crappieslayer22]

i usuly dont take any food on the ice

[ilikepike]

man what a shanty