Author Topic: years ice fishing (Read 5516 times)

fish_finder · « **Reply #60 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:19 PM »

About 12 years...since i was 10

sperrin · « **Reply #61 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:38 PM »

Started ice fishing with my Grandpa, Dad & Brother when I was just a little guy..about 5 years old. He was a commercial fisherman, but still always loved to go out just for the sport of it. Thats all I ever wanted to do when I was up north at their farm was go ice fishing. Then as I grew up I got so busy with hockey and other things that I lost it for a few years...Now i've gotten back into it hardcore for the past 2 years....and im totally addicted again, just like I was when I was 5 years old!

Take a kid ice fishing and get them hooked early! Great sport...

Stevo

gotcrappie · « **Reply #62 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:50 PM »

Last year was my first year ice fishing! This site is great. I've learned so much. Thanks for everyone posting great tips and helpful information for us rookies!

HappyFrozenToes · « **Reply #63 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:54 PM »

This is my 3rd full seson so I haven't been at it very long. Must have been fate though cause as much as I love open water I decided a few years back to make a shanty (I think that shanty weighed around 150 pounds) and buy a used auger. Didn't have anyone show me the ropes, just read what I could to get some idea of what to do.
Showed up at the lake with a plan and after 4 hours of no fish took a lunch break, reformulated my plan, went back to the lake, drilled some more holes and in four more hours caught two of what will always be to me the most exciting bluegill I have ever seen

As I recall they were only about 6 inches.

who me lost? · « **Reply #64 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:59 PM »

Well bought my four wheeler in 1987 and also built my first hut that year as well.
snowmobile about five years after that...

Now on my third hardside hut, third portable, third auger, third fishfinder, second trailer and second snowmobile.

Still have the first four wheeler and the first wife though, both good runners!

5galbucket · « **Reply #65 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 03:59 PM »

37 years. When I was four, I had strict instructions as follows:

"When your bobber goes down, YANK hard, as high as you can, then walk straight away from the hole."

Caught my first lake trout (4lbs) that day , and a lot of other species of fish following those directions until I became coordinated enough to line fish in hand over hand, which I used to practice in the basement.

crappiekid24 · « **Reply #66 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:00 PM »

This is my 3rd season and will be my 2nd season with a flasher. I picked it up because it looked cool to me. After I tried it and caught fish I was hooked. Learned alot here on Iceshanty. Thanks!

YO1157 · « **Reply #67 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:00 PM »

40 years here,and still luvin it

Buck762 · « **Reply #68 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:08 PM »

It kinda sucks for me because nobody in my family fishes or hunts. If I ever have kids though I'll definetly introduce them to hunting and fishing as early as I can

brittlab · « **Reply #69 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:28 PM »

4th winter for me. wish I would have went with my buddy when he asked me 20 years ago. wasted a lot of winters drinking instead of fishing

Fisherboy · « **Reply #70 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:29 PM »

Every year I've been alive (22).

I've been trying to find a picture of my dad sitting on the ice, holding me in his arms all wrapped up when I was just under 1 year. If I do, I'll post it up.

It definitely started the addiction.

Fisher

esox13 · « **Reply #71 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:36 PM »

First time on the ice was when I was 7 so I've been at it 34 years.

blue mule · « **Reply #72 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:36 PM »

don't rember when i started. was in my early 20's i think. i'd say 30-35 years. and my how things have changed!

tlau · « **Reply #73 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:56 PM »

40 years old now. 35 years on the ice. Addicted young.

Hardwater Problem · « **Reply #74 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:59 PM »

I was introduced about 24 years ago... in the boy scouts by a die hard fisherman. This old guy used a busted off "open water" pole rigged as an ice pole and sat on a bucket... no fish finders, no shack, just a lot of drillin and chillin!!! I went with him on occasion, not enough to be considered an "ice fisherman". Times were tough and cold out there with him, and as a young guy, the draw to the warm weather fishing and the relative success rate eventually drew me away. About two years ago, on a mild day... WHEN THERE WERE NO DUCKS TO BE HAD IN NEBRASKA... I reluctantly went out to a local lake with one of my best friends and "POUNDED" crappie and gills for about four hours!!! The very next week I had a Pak-Shack III and a heater. The next week I bought an auger and the next week began construction of my hybrid shanty. I have been reborn to the sport and am two years fanatical. My wife calls it an ice fishing problem!!! Thusly, the name.

playhardtte · « **Reply #75 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:22 PM »

This will be my 4th yr. wow i guess i'm just getting start

:thumbsup:ed!

motorfisher · « **Reply #76 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:29 PM »

Season number 24 for me and no matter how years you've been enjoying the ice be sure to be SAFE out there cause there's many more seasons to come !

nontypical · « **Reply #77 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:31 PM »

ill be forty in january so about 35 years.wow never really thought about it before man thats a long time

burndoubt · « **Reply #78 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:42 PM »

This will be my fourth, but I've been hardcore since the first time I went. Lots more to learn, and this place is the greatest!

Hardwaterhunter · « **Reply #79 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:50 PM »

My 36th season and loving it more then ever.I love to fish in my boat,but there is just something real special about Hardwater.I guess it must be the fact that mere mortal men can actually act like Moses and walk on water.The one thing I do know is that I will be doing it until the day I die.

Bob

Doug D · « **Reply #80 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:52 PM »

Right around 20 years.

newbraintree · « **Reply #81 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 05:58 PM »

25 years now.... 31 years old

Downsea · « **Reply #82 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 06:25 PM »

Must be 37 or 38 years. I was 12 or 13 and I don't miss that damn spud a bit.

princecraft · « **Reply #83 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 06:30 PM »

I didn't start until late in life. 45 years for me.

thefinlessbrown2 · « **Reply #84 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 06:35 PM »

i'll be 43 on january 1st and been cuttin holes since i was eight i no longer look for snow flies for bait but still love the outdoors no matter what the mercury says !!!! ;)25th year

miller326 · « **Reply #85 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:09 PM »

4 years 14 years old

RANGER26 · « **Reply #86 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:13 PM »

5 yrs for me.

Dinga LING · « **Reply #87 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:26 PM »

First time on ice I was about 7 y/o. Chopped holes with a crow bar and an ax. It was a luxery to have a spud bar especially one with a ring on top to tie a rope onto. I ice fished about once a year until 3 years ago. I made a trip to Fort Peck Res. and caught an 18 pound Northern and have had the ice fishing disease since then. So you could say either 55 years or 3 years seriously.

panfishman13 · « **Reply #88 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:30 PM »

16.5 years old, 16 years on the ice.

tight lines forever and a day

hawg hunter · « **Reply #89 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:32 PM »

started when i was 6 so 41 years and still loving it

almost 30 years stricky walleye
Hawg Hunter

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