Absolutely astonishing...

[acrawfor]

Saturday there were 4 of us fishing out on little bay de noc. We decided to set up a good distance away from other shacks, by this I mean the closest shack was 300 yards minimum. Being there were 4 of us we put out 8 tip ups, all within 20 yards of our shack. Some guy in a truck pulling a trailered shack drives pretty close to us. After watching him pass I look out and holy crap a flag right near where he drove. We all walk over there, pull it up, and nothing. Thats when we notice there are tire tracks on each side of the tip up. The guys truck and trailer tires missed the tip up by 1/2 inch to either side. Didn't hit the tip up mind you, but drove right over top setting off the flag. The whole not seeing it excuse won't cut it here either because we set it in the middle of a clear spot on the ice. Even the drifts out there were only 4-6 inches deep, but this was sitting on zero snow.

Why does it seem there are more and more people that feel they need to be jerks and drive close to you when you are fishing. Be it trucks, snowmobiles or quads I have had more people pass within 20 yards of my shack this year than I ever have.

[BiG ARN]

i would of jumped on your 4 wheeler   truck or whatever you took out there and followed him and drove laps around his shack ....see how he likes that....and if that wasnt good enough for him   id offer him a free black eye and a lump on his head!         nothing worse then some one whos gotta drive right through your stuff          i had a meathead driving his snowmobile between my shack and tipups the other day at PRIME time!    i just about lost my mind....lucky the guy knew the guy next to us!

[bigmike7272]

i have noticed that too, this year has been a terrible year for people driving past my tent and through my
tip-ups

[Flag UP]

Slightly off topic but it seems like it should be mentioned here: Are you talking about walleye being spooked by someone driving on the ice? Over the years there have been far too many times that someone drove up to our shack with a snowmobile, when we were tipup fishing for Northerns, and the flag went up that we started to intentionally drive a machine around the tipups when the action was slow. It seemed to work quite often. I haven't done hardly any walleye fishing through the ice so I can't speak for what happens then.

[acrawfor]

Are you talking about walleye being spooked by someone driving on the ice?

I was walleye fishing, but it wasn't a fish that set the flag off. We marked our depths either with sinkers or small bobbers. This one had a bobber on it and it was in the exact spot it was when we put it down the hole. Either the flag got nudged by his tire or the virabtion set it off.

i had a meathead driving his snowmobile between my shack and tipups the other day at PRIME time! 

I had this happen to me multiple times a couple weekends ago at the Mich Tech tournament down in Chassel. All tip ups were within 15-20 yards and guys were driving between me and them. It wasn't just me either. Watched it happen to a couple guys in front of me too. One of the times I had to get out of my shanty to make sure my tip up was still in one piece.

[MIeyes]

Interesting about spooking fish or not.  Recently a friend and I were perch fishing and he had the camera and said that when I walked near his whole he could see the perch scatter.  This was in about 12fow.  We experimented on other holes and the same thing happened.  It wasn't an exceptionally sunny day and the ice was partially snow covered.  Saw the fish just didn't catch to many.

[BiG ARN]

ever notice how a tip up can have a fish on it and stop spinning and soon as you walk up to it ..it starts spinning again.  unless you really tip toe or theres a lot of line out.   i see this pretty often      id have to say the senses of a fish are pretty lightly activated.    ive seen fish take off like they got shot in the tail with a bb gun from a 4 wheeler or snowmobile driving by over 100 feet away..  then again ive had fish stay in camera site and not even flinch when someone was drilling a hole with a gas auger right behind me.    sometimes there straight up paranoid and sometimes they just dont care.   as far as pike  id say they have a class of there own  ive had pike slam a shiner as i was dropping it in the hole...let it go and it did it again.   a week ago me and my buddy ended up catching the same pike 3 times

[bigmike7272]

I had fish scattering on saturday just from the sound of the ice popping

[stephensonswille]

I spear northern all winter long i've had them take off just by setting down a can and having it tip over and other days theyre not as sensitive but i'd still rather have peace and quiet when I'm out on the lake trying to fish and not deal with people driving next to my shack when there is so much open space away from the shack where they can be