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Too cold?
« on: Jan 08, 2015, 02:06 AM »
3:00am. 30 below.  Time to go hit the ice in the SnoBear!  I smell Smelt!
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #1 on: Jan 08, 2015, 04:50 AM »
30 below! Yikes. Put the long johns on today. That's bone chilling. I don't think many will be out on the ice today.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #2 on: Jan 08, 2015, 05:06 AM »
Come on.  It's just the wind chill.  Smelt are yummy
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #3 on: Jan 08, 2015, 05:21 AM »
I assume that's 30 below with wind chill. I'm in Bellingham and it's -1 right now. Cold but certainly a far cry from -30!
Plus it must be nice being in that heated beautiful new Snobear:-) Can I fish with you?  ::)
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #4 on: Jan 08, 2015, 05:22 AM »
If I had smelt nearby, I'd be fishing for them too! -4 outside, 44 inside. The furnace dude is coming today to fix the furnace luckily...

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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #5 on: Jan 08, 2015, 05:28 AM »
Smelt.  If I didn't have to work I'd go.  Maybe tonight.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #6 on: Jan 08, 2015, 05:46 AM »
Headed out myself ;D
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #7 on: Jan 08, 2015, 06:35 AM »
Back to work!  Only about 2 dozen but not a bad 3 hours of fishing
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #8 on: Jan 08, 2015, 06:49 AM »
Quote from: ICEHOLE on Jan 08, 2015, 05:46 AM
Headed out myself ;D

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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #9 on: Jan 08, 2015, 06:55 AM »
having never caught smelt, whats the deal? i know they taste great, but are they only catchable when the weather is insanely cold? also, what sort of lure/bait set up do you use?
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #10 on: Jan 08, 2015, 08:34 AM »
Screw being outside today.  I work outside and it was brutal yesterday after lunch when it was 11° and windy never mind 5° and blowing harder. Took 20 minutes yesterday and I couldn't feel my fingers. Could only imagine what it would be like today.  Last year when it was -15° with the wind it only took about 10 minutes for my fingers to go numb.  If for some reason you are going out bundle up.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #11 on: Jan 08, 2015, 08:38 AM »
Ed some of us have no choice. Ill be out in it all day. Jobs gotta get done whether we like it or not. As my wife says you have ice fishing gear to stay warm mind as well put it to use.

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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #12 on: Jan 08, 2015, 09:18 AM »
Quote from: ctownfisherman on Jan 08, 2015, 08:38 AM
Ed some of us have no choice. Ill be out in it all day. Jobs gotta get done whether we like it or not. As my wife says you have ice fishing gear to stay warm mind as well put it to use.

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I hear ya Dave I work outside also but it is impossible to put 1/4 nuts and 5/8 x 1/4 flat washers on a 1/4-20 bolt with gloves on so you have to work with super thin gloves that don't protect you from the cold.  Had a slight case of frostbite last year after the -15f day and I'm not gonna do that again.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #13 on: Jan 08, 2015, 09:18 AM »
Had to work today, otherwise I would have been on the ice at sunrise. I've fished in colder and will again. Too cold for ice fishing is not in my vocabulary.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #14 on: Jan 08, 2015, 09:27 AM »
Quote from: MrE1979 on Jan 08, 2015, 08:34 AM
Screw being outside today.  I work outside and it was brutal yesterday after lunch when it was 11° and windy never mind 5° and blowing harder. Took 20 minutes yesterday and I couldn't feel my fingers. Could only imagine what it would be like today.  Last year when it was -15° with the wind it only took about 10 minutes for my fingers to go numb.  If for some reason you are going out bundle up.
Ed I'm with you on that. Not a good day for a open air bulldozer. Thank god retired now. Makes good ice thou
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #15 on: Jan 08, 2015, 09:39 AM »
It's not to cold to fish!










It's just to cold for me to want to fish.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #16 on: Jan 08, 2015, 09:48 AM »
Quote from: MillBillyMan on Jan 08, 2015, 09:18 AM
Had to work today, otherwise I would have been on the ice at sunrise. I've fished in colder and will again. Too cold for ice fishing is not in my vocabulary.

Not what ya said yesterday on the phone  ???  I guess if I was able to wear my thinsulate gloves it wouldn't be that bad.  I have no problem with my feet or anything else getting cold but once you loose your hands in the middle of a solar field with nothing around to warm up in and the wind whipping at you....  Forgeddaboudit   
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #17 on: Jan 08, 2015, 10:11 AM »
Quote from: MrE1979 on Jan 08, 2015, 09:48 AM

Not what ya said yesterday on the phone  ???  I guess if I was able to wear my thinsulate gloves it wouldn't be that bad.  I have no problem with my feet or anything else getting cold but once you loose your hands in the middle of a solar field with nothing around to warm up in and the wind whipping at you....  Forgeddaboudit
I said if I didn't have to work I would probably wait until the sun comes up. But I have gone out in colder! I fish in all weather, rain, snow, sleet, wind and cold. You should know that, owe wait, you haven't gone out yet ;-)
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #18 on: Jan 08, 2015, 10:40 AM »
It is cold.  I fished -14 last year, you can't do much but hope your shanty is over a pile of fish!  I am going to smelt tonight...screw the cold!
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #19 on: Jan 08, 2015, 10:48 AM »
Quote from: capt.shay on Jan 08, 2015, 09:39 AM
It's not to cold to fish!

2X that!

When I was younger it wouldn't faze be a bit, but now nature has seen fit to make parts of my anatomy ache when it gets hot, when it gets cold, when it rains, snows or does nothing at all! man, it can really bite getting old (or older before your time)!!!

But, as stated earlier as well, THERE'S ICE BEING MADE!!!!! ;D








It's just to cold for me to want to fish.
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #20 on: Jan 08, 2015, 11:59 AM »
Ive been out all day. Shanty is about 60 degrees. Winds are light and ihave had my jacket off for hours. Not nearly as bad as I anticipated. 6" solid ice
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Re: Too cold?
« Reply #21 on: Jan 08, 2015, 12:04 PM »
Quote from: ICEHOLE on Jan 08, 2015, 11:59 AM
Ive been out all day. Shanty is about 60 degrees. Winds are light and ihave had my jacket off for hours. Not nearly as bad as I anticipated. 6" solid ice
It really isn't too bad out. Tomorrow much windier! I might be going tomorrow now!?
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