Author Topic: and you thought snowmobiles were bad... (Read 3491 times)

billditrite · « **on:** Feb 20, 2005, 04:22 AM »

heres what was buzzing our trapline saturday!!

billditrite · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 04:49 AM »

the ice is hard as rock ...make no mistake he landed there

fozsey · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 11:36 AM »

Does the DEC use those there? They do here, but normally don't land on lakes. They just take video and pics.

billditrite · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 12:30 PM »

yeah but they dont land usually they just communicate with ground units. this was a pretty nice old guy who just landed to see how the fishingf was and tell us about his plane he built it himself

AirManCam · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 01:10 PM »

Thats pretty cool man 8)

fishinworms · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 02:24 PM »

Saturday we had to contend with a hover craft that kept circling us. There we're only a couple of fishermen on the entire lake and they had to circle us.....If I had a regular pole I might have lobbed a shad rap in their direction......how rude!

camo_fish · « **Reply #6 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 02:45 PM »

wow, that is crazy and wild,

what was he doing, just coming over to see how the fishin was.

tinboat · « **Reply #7 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 03:12 PM »

Hey, same darn thing happened to me today. Guy dropped this Piper Cub right down my trap line (actually bounced out of a couple of holes that I just pulled traps from) to land on the lake to visit his brother, who lived on the lake. Scared the c^*# out of me because I heard the plane behind me, behind some tall pines, the he popped over the trees and planted it on the pond, I thought he was crash landing!

ice dawg · « **Reply #8 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 04:17 PM »

A friend and I used to ice fish with his plane once in a while. Kinda fun. A lot of people used to wonder why we did it.

reubenpa · « **Reply #9 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 04:24 PM »

that is hilarious nice pics scott!!!!!!

The guy probabl came to take all your perch!!!!!

C.C. · « **Reply #10 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 05:39 PM »

That kind of stuff is nuts. I guess we don't get to experience much in PA.
Jim

billditrite · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 05:48 PM »

the ice is about 20'' thick

The Clam · « **Reply #12 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 07:31 PM »

We had it happen to us a couple weeks ago. Three different planes flew in. They were friendly though, stopped by to visit. My 7 year old boy was with us. It made his day.

olds-Pa · « **Reply #13 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 07:45 PM »

Pretty neat stuff there billditrite. Here is a result of a careless flyboy on the ice.
http://zeeb.at/oops/flying%20in%20wi.jpg
Last week there were 2 four wheelers on the ice with us. They finally wrecked each other somehow, and they limped off the ice leaving us in quiet again.

billybono · « **Reply #14 on:** Feb 20, 2005, 07:48 PM »

i thought it was going to happen a couple of weeks ago. he came close then pulled away. those are some cool pics

billybono

archbishop · « **Reply #15 on:** Feb 21, 2005, 09:09 AM »

tell him next time pop a hole in his floor board and drop a line

Gamalot · « **Reply #16 on:** Feb 22, 2005, 09:53 AM »

Get me that guys number! I know a few great lakes up in N. Maine and that is the way to get there this time of year.
We had one land on the RIO resivoir about a month ago but he was in an emergency and it just about sunk. Imagine the luck of avoiding a crash and then going under!

JigAwhopper · « **Reply #17 on:** Feb 22, 2005, 11:05 AM »

Quote from: olds-Pa on Feb 20, 2005, 07:45 PM

Pretty neat stuff there billditrite. Here is a result of a careless flyboy on the ice.
http://zeeb.at/oops/flying%20in%20wi.jpg
Last week there were 2 four wheelers on the ice with us. They finally wrecked each other somehow, and they limped off the ice leaving us in quiet again.

Hey, is that in Lake George, NY??? the background looks familiar??

UPSTATE ICEMASTER · « **Reply #18 on:** Feb 22, 2005, 02:16 PM »

Quote from: JigAwhopper on Feb 22, 2005, 11:05 AM

Quote from: olds-Pa on Feb 20, 2005, 07:45 PM
Pretty neat stuff there billditrite. Here is a result of a careless flyboy on the ice.
http://zeeb.at/oops/flying%20in%20wi.jpg
Last week there were 2 four wheelers on the ice with us. They finally wrecked each other somehow, and they limped off the ice leaving us in quiet again.

Hey, is that in Lake George, NY??? the background looks familiar??

Thats what im sayin that looks alot like the king to me

olds-Pa · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 22, 2005, 05:41 PM »

I'm not sure where this accident happened. I thought maybe it was Wiconsin due to the wi in the url. The pic. was taken off a site with a ton of plane mishaps.
www.micom.net/opps/

Basshuntah · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 24, 2005, 11:42 AM »

dang never seen that before, pretty frigging cool, better than snowmachines i think, you wouldn't of ha dalthing to write about.

butterworm · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 24, 2005, 11:52 AM »

Quote from: billybono on Feb 20, 2005, 07:48 PM

i thought it was going to happen a couple of weeks ago. he came close then pulled away. those are some cool pics

billybono

i have seen this for a couple yrs now. but mainly up north in canada at lake simcoe . never here in the states though.those are some 8) pics though.

UPSTATE ICEMASTER · « **Reply #22 on:** Feb 24, 2005, 12:27 PM »

Up here in upstate new york i see them land almost every time im on the dead sea they land at the pub to eat lunch ive seen them land on 8 - 10 inches in the early season

cnyfishing · « **Reply #23 on:** Feb 25, 2005, 05:21 PM »

This morning I was fishing on Sandy Pond NY and I saw 3 planes that kept buzzing the lake... I was hoping they would land but they didn't.

scansy · « **Reply #24 on:** Feb 25, 2005, 07:13 PM »

I fly on "bush planes" in northern Canada in the summer that land on the water. They say they convert them to skis for the winter (which is quite long up there) and land on the same lakes! Of course they can go months at a time without getting above 0 degrees F so they get lots of ice.

billybono · « **Reply #25 on:** Feb 25, 2005, 10:02 PM »

Quote from: pearchin on Feb 24, 2005, 11:52 AM

Quote from: billybono on Feb 20, 2005, 07:48 PM
i thought it was going to happen a couple of weeks ago. he came close then pulled away. those are some cool pics

billybono
i have seen this for a couple yrs now. but mainly up north in canada at lake simcoe . never here in the states though.those are some 8) pics though.

i saw it on little sodus bay in ny. it was cool as hell

billybono

icy mike · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 27, 2005, 02:18 AM »

In Alaska those are very common as you would guess. But get this, I was fishing on a lake last week that does not allow the use of motorized vehicles such as boats with motors, snowmobiles, four wheelers, etc.. BUT, it allows the use of float planes and planes with skiis in the winter! Makes no sense to me (unless the FAA controls the lake). I was checked by the State Troopers that day for my fishing license and we talked for a while. He did not understand why either. Those with the planes have the money to influence the rule makers I guess. I'm glad the trooper didn't say anything about my power auger.

Icy Mike

olds-Pa · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 27, 2005, 08:04 AM »

I've wondered about the power auger angle and legality issue on the no motors allowed lakes icy mike. Just afraid to pursue it for fear that it is illegal. Somethings are best just left alone i guess.

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