Ice Shack Ideas

[dabluz]

Cheese & Rice!!!!!!! thats cold !!! quess that would require an extension on my HAND auger!!!

We got a lot of snow over the winter so most of the lakes have slush over the ice.  The thick coat of snow is heavy and forces the ice down thus water comes up over the ice.  The thick snow insulates this water from the cold.  When things start to warm up in march, it's possible to go out on the lakes in the morning but by mid-day, even if the ice is still quite thick, it's hard to walk in the slush and snowmobiles can get stuck in the slush too.  When brook trout season starts near the end of April, I usually go out at sun-up (about 4 a.m.) and get off the ice by 10 or 11 a.m.

[ValleyStocker]

 by then I am about ready to start planting my tomato plants

[RIfish]

here is my 8x8

[PCB]

here is my 8x8 (Image removed from quote.)

give a 10 for creativity

[fisher2hunter]

i really like u guys shacks or should i say mansions.lol but im tryin 2 build one like that for next year.

[ShackRat]

could someone please explain teh easiest way to post pictures? ive been part of this forum for almost a year and still havnt figured it out.  id really like to show off my 8x6

[Grumpyoldman]

Hi IceBalls.
I did not know about all those rules in your part of New York state.  Here in Quebec, icefishing is popular and icefishing shacks are found everywhere, if there is an open fishing season on that body of water.

In my region, there is the Saguenay river.  In the deeper parts, it's salt water where we fish for cod, lingcod, ocean perch, halibut, flounder etc.  In the shallow parts, we fish for smelt and sometimes brook trout.  Fishing shacks are installed around Xmas time and are removed around mid march to the end of march.  As you can well imagine, there are some real fancy shacks and people do spend 3 months in their shacks.  It's their winter time cottage.  It's common to see people BBQuing steaks on their little porches with the big screen colour t.v. with satellite reception is running in the shack that looks like a miniature house with pvc siding etc.  The electricity comes from a 3000 watt generator and heating is usually an oil stove.  The average size of the fishing shack is 12 X 16 but there are larger ones.  Some people use a mobile home.  All the fishing villages, which can be as many as 2000 shacks, have plowed roads.  However, there are thousands of other shacks scattered outside of the villages and acces is via snowmobile or on foot.

When good ice fishers die they go Quebec?

[mainedukblaster]

here is my 8x8 (Image removed from quote.)

looks like Stump pond, near the police station 

[RIfish]

close ..Wiinipasaki in NH on Alton   Bay  ,2 yrs ago 

[IceBalls]

RIfish;
Now THAT is one cool lookin' shack!!!!   You got The Maid Marion locked up in there?

[mainedukblaster]

close ..Wiinipasaki in NH on Alton   Bay  ,2 yrs ago 

ahh only a couple hundred miles 

[Cheeks13]

Nice shack Mainedukblaster.

[hunters08]

could someone please explain teh easiest way to post pictures? ive been part of this forum for almost a year and still havnt figured it out.  id really like to show off my 8x6

sign up for     photobucket.com upload your pics to there website.Then from there website you can copy the IMG from your picture(it will be the last box under your picture) then you can post on iceshanty

[Parker84]

That shack is Awesome