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If I were to have a permenent shanty on Onieda this year it would be my 15' Starcraft with full canvass
I was thinking the same thing. I have a pontoon platform with out a motor let's go anchor it out there and get our fix.
It's funny you guys say that....I was just joking with my wife that now that I have ALL this ice gear I am going to have to rig my flip over shanty on a john boat and get inner tubes to float my tip ups on. There is some mysterious frozen sunstance falling from the sky this morning though...... its gonna freeze.......its gonna freeze.....its gonna freeze
Friends have told me stories from years ago that there were people who had shanties on Oneida, and who, for a fee, would run fishermen out to the shanties on snow machines and return at night and bring them in. Does this still take place on Oneida or anywhere else?
Ahhh, the good old days on Oneida!! 36" of ice and making extenders for our hand augers to cut through. And Frank Tripp (God rest his soul) hauling guys out on his flat bottomed John boats. Probably still a couple shanties out there for rent. Old stories from old timers will have to keep us amused until we get some ice. Cya....
So, OBMike, I take it that those are just fond memories? There is no one hauling fishermen out to shanties anymore? Ok then, tell me stories from the good old days on Oneida. I'm 60 and the guys who are telling me these stories are 65 or so. I guess they must be telling stories from the 70's or 80's or maybe even the 60's. Did you ever use the service?
Rick at Apps may still put shacks out once in a while. He used to put them out and run people out to them. Lately he has just been running the shuttle and not placing shacks that I know of.We used to have 1 or 2 permanent shacks out there. When I was a kid my dad would put a big shanty out just for cooking food and warming up. It was nice if you wanted the whole family out there.They can be a pain with the snow and slush. You need to keep an eye on them and raise them up out of the slush. Once they freeze in it is a beeoch to get them free. Not worth the hassle. I like to be portable now.I think they require your to put your name and address on them too...not that people do.
Use to see some real neat contraptions out on the lake in the 80's. Lots of guys had homemade dogsled type runner things with huts built on to em. They were basically small perminants they hauled around with snowmobiles. Now everyone has some type of portable...I remember Tripps flatbottom he pulled behind the bus type thing. Throw your gear in the boat and hop in the bus. We always sat towards the back. Through the 90's Rick at Apps had around a dozen perminants he put out. He was constantly moveing them as is the nature of Oneida. I helped him many times.He still takes people out with the hauler and if the conditions were right I bet he'd put out a few shacks...
Can you give me a phone number or web address for Rick at Apps?
Yep, I qualify for that age you are talking about. Back in the 70s we used to have a Trailways bus of 40 guys or so leave early from Kodak Park, Rochester and return that night. We spend the day at Frank Tripp's in Constantia and he took us out in a flat bottomed boat towed by a big snowmobile. Used to bring us back in at noon for lunch/warmup and tow us back out. Later we started driving ourselves and the hot spots were the 38' depths out from Bernard's Bay or West of App's. No one had machines back then (I still don't) and it was a good 45 min. walk with decent weather. Don't do that anymore-stay around home and usually only walk a 1/4 mile or less. Still enjoy the heck out of it though. Cya....
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A bus with 40 guys from Kodak? Where the heck was I? I'm retired after 34 years at Kodak! I often reflect on 'the glory days' when KPAA would put things like this together or when we could go to the B28 cafeteria and have a great breakfast, made to order, at 4:00 AM, any day of the week. By the time I left Kodak in Dec. 2007 it was like Survivor Island. Do you have any pics from those trips?
Pics, did they have cameras back then? Yea, I know a bus full of Kodakers and no camera-no wonder they are in such trouble!!Yes, Augie Tantalo (ran the B30 Carpenter Shop) ran those trips back then and yes we used to get one of those B28 breakfasts (they really piled the chow on then) before the bus left B28 at 5 AM. There was some serious winter weather back then and we were glad to leave the driving to the bus driver. Everybody was psyched up on the way to Oneida and sound asleep on the way home. We had a guy worked in the machine shop who made some fabulous "Conesus Lake" type jigs and as I recall he always won the longest fish contests with them. Ahhh, the good old days. I "retired" in 1999.Hope to meet up with you this year Trankndwg, I'm usually at the North end of Conesus or the South end of Honeoye at some point?? Cya....
I fish Honeoye a couple days a week if they are biting there. I move all over the lake. This year I'm going to try Conesus too. I kinda have my heart set on catching a tiger. I've never caught one before. I look forward to meeting you one of these days. If you see a black pic-up with a plate that says TRAKNDWG thats me. On the ice I'm the guy that looks like Wilfred Brimley in a green float suit.
