Author Topic: How many years ya been ice fishin'? (Read 15588 times)

mjbmxz · « **Reply #30 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 10:18 AM »

Been ice fishing since I was 6 or 7 so I'd have to say 20-21 yrs.

jigerjim · « **Reply #31 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 10:24 AM »

I've ice fishin for 57 year's, there werent even any plastic bucket's to sit on yet. We made are own spoon's out of lipstick tube's, today there called Phebe's. The only bait we used was bacon strip's untel we got are first Perch, then we used there eye's.

Master Angler · « **Reply #32 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 10:30 AM »

Started when I was 4-5 with my dad and uncles, fishing a local lake loaded with snot rockets mostly, lots of action. 25 now so about 20 years. Had little technology, opened old holes with a chisel or axe, or if the ice was too thick to chip through we'd use a chain saw. Stick and line to jig with, and smelts we'd hang on a line tyed to a willow stick stuck in the snow.

Now I use a power auger, good rods and reels, a flasher, and tip-ups.

Bobberstop · « **Reply #33 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 10:36 AM »

I started when i was 5. looks like 58 years. My grandad taught me to fish hunt and trap.

Turkeyhunter10ga · « **Reply #34 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 10:43 AM »

Started in '67 when i was 10 with an uncle, been hooked ever since. So been doing it 40 yrs now.

adkbrookie · « **Reply #35 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 12:04 PM »

passively (meaning not trying too hard or catching much) - 10yrs
actually trying this will be my fourth season

Hollywood703 · « **Reply #36 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 12:10 PM »

I too started going out with my dad around 4-5 years old....I started going out myself around 14.....so 27 years overall, and 17 years without supervision

Boilerhawg · « **Reply #37 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 12:15 PM »

I don't remember not fishing. I asked my Dad a few years ago when he started taking me along on fishin' trips. He looked at me like it was the most obvious question in the world.

"When you could walk" he said.

That would make it about 37 years.

jabers69 · « **Reply #38 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 01:22 PM »

This is my 5 or 6 year not sure ,wised i started a lot sooner.

1MOFISH · « **Reply #39 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 01:32 PM »

its my 26th year its like yesterday my love for GOD,my family ,ice fishin' is a close third i try to incorporate all 3 daily in my life, i believe its possible to do both with priority in place i hope and pray that i keep it that way. mo

nightfisher · « **Reply #40 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 01:39 PM »

37 yrs for me

Baxter1 · « **Reply #41 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 02:05 PM »

25 years for me.

IceLunker · « **Reply #42 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 02:15 PM »

Started in the winter of 81... with a home-made spud and some traps that
were so old. Still have those traps, hung in a place of honor, I bring one or
two out every once in a while.

I got introduced by my best friends dad. An old depression era guy with great
stories. Every year, i introduce someone new to the game... Every year, i get
asked by some... so when are we going again?

Reading this site in the last few years has helped me spend a few more $$s
on toys - all worth it!

-g

Loves To Fish · « **Reply #43 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 02:18 PM »

Let's see. I'm 50 years old and I've been icefishing for 51 years.
My mom told me she still went icefishing with dad while she was pregnant with me. So I figure if I was on the ice a few times, that year should count too.

JamesP · « **Reply #44 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 02:56 PM »

This will be my 6th year I think. Will be 63 tomorrow and wish I would have started way back when? Just fish small lakes mostly for pan fish, but since I got my vex I can say I have never been skunked. Dont want a shanty as I move around a lot. A sled with 3 buckets, Blue suit and vex And I am good to go. Retired so I go when we have the Ice. Never home, home is where ever I am at. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.

chimo · « **Reply #45 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 03:00 PM »

probably started ice fishing for 20 years ago but there was an 8 year break in there. started ice fishing seriously again when I was back home on leave 5 years ago. since then I have been on the ice every chance I get. good fishin

chimo

pikeking · « **Reply #46 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 05:42 PM »

I'v been fishing since I was about 3 and ice fishing since about 6 now I'm 33. Hmm, thats a lot of years. I think I have a problem here, Do you think I need help?(((((FLAG)))))

holmes76 · « **Reply #47 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 05:48 PM »

just started ice fishing 4 yrs ago. fished the open water since i can remember but my parents don't like the cold so i didn't try ice fishing until i met a couple friends who did it. now I'm hooked.

blaster22077 · « **Reply #48 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 05:52 PM »

It's like 10 years now

and i love every cold day of it

Haywood · « **Reply #49 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 05:52 PM »

31 of the 33 years I have been on this earth, I have been ice fishing, or at least playing in my dad's minnow bucket

purduebass · « **Reply #50 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 05:58 PM »

My dad started me on the ice when I was around five. I wish we still got ice like we did back then, that was 23 years ago. NW Indiana needs some safe ice, I'm going crazy here!!!

AirManCam · « **Reply #51 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:00 PM »

I've been ice fishing since I was about 3. Its a serious addiction now.

Slammerman · « **Reply #52 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:01 PM »

Quote from: Boilerhawg on Dec 09, 2007, 12:15 PM

I don't remember not fishing. I asked my Dad a few years ago when he started taking me along on fishin' trips. He looked at me like it was the most obvious question in the world.

"When you could walk" he said.

That would make it about 37 years.

Same story here.

I hope that I can get my dad on the ice this year. Funny how he's the chairman of one of the biggest ice-fishing derbies in West Michigan and it's been about 5 or so years now since he's been on the ice after his back, hips, and knees went. I've got a few good "road-fishing" spots he should be able to handle and he shouldn't get cold sittin in his conversion van most of the time. Thirty years ago he was helping me on the ice - it's only fair that I help him now.

miller326 · « **Reply #53 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:16 PM »

This is my 3rd season 8)

fishfry · « **Reply #54 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:20 PM »

38 years.

holehawg · « **Reply #55 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:27 PM »

my father carried me in the woods & on the water since i was 3...i can remember ice fishing around 8 years old..well kind of ...we kids were dads beer runners....

a family tradition i hope to pass on to my 4 grandsons....

Prairiegoat · « **Reply #56 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:32 PM »

Off and on for more than fifty years.

Bgreen02 · « **Reply #57 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:34 PM »

First went when I was 7. Then there were some years in between I didn't go but have been out every winter for last 4 years. So 16 years in total since I started.

Quack_Attack · « **Reply #58 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:34 PM »

Well, I was 5 when my dad started taking me, first thing on the ice I sat down and ate the peanut butter sandwich my mother packed for me, then my dad would put down a yellow ice fly on a long (well it was as long as I was tall)

jiggin' stick, and a bobber, the bass loved it. I'd watch that bobber slowly go down, I'd grab the stick put it over my shoulder and waddle away from the hole (they dressed me in everything they could get on me). Bass usually weren't legal in MI during the ice fishin' season so they went back in. I was told they were illegal fish so's they had to go back, well I couldn't say illegal so's I called 'em "Legal" fish, not bass. My dad and his buddies got a big chuckle outta this. Seems like that was just yesterday.

So, I've been at it for 59 yrs now.

minnowguy · « **Reply #59 on:** Dec 09, 2007, 06:39 PM »

22 years

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