Shanty

[riske]

How come you never see shanties up here?  I have been thinking about building one and hauling it out. 

[icehogger84]

I too have been thinking a about building one. I've seen one up at Magic a couple of years in a row. I think part of it is that we are able to have 5 lines at a time and we are prone to spreading them out at our spots and a shanty is kinda restrictive to fishing that many lines. The other reason is that most of us are day-trippers and move alot to maximize our ice time. I've had spots in the past where a shanty would be great in the same spot but our ice takes awhile to be good enough to haul one out. Anyway, there are some of my thoughts on it but, I would still like to build one just need a 4wheeler to move it around...Hogger

[BlueDuck]

I think its because of our unpredictable ice.  Seems to be lots of portables but hard sides are rare.

[DakotaElkSlayer]

  I am pretty sure that you don't see any permanent shanties up here because there is NO SPEARING.  Back in Northern Michigan, all the permanent shanties were spearing shanties.  If you were fishing with rods, you would have a portable.  Also, at least up here around Moscow, it just isn't really cold.  Personally, I am having a problem pulling the trigger on a flip-over since the weather doesn't give me a need for one.

Jim

[curt69]

Mackay Res. has about 12 every year . There are starting to put a few on Ririe Res. Curt G.

[fowl_language]

I thought I would revive this thread to see if anyone has seen any more pop up on the ice in the last few years?

Personally I have not, I would think that areas with good ice for a long time would have some, for me a perfect example would be Cascade or other higher elevation lakes, am I missing something? Maybe drawdown in the winter?  A lot of guys would get those old heavy crappy hard side campers and drop the axles out when the ice was thick enough two holes in the floor and you're living it up, pretty easy to do.  I saw this a lot in North Dakota too but those guys fabricated drop axles and the whole bit.

I remember in the east we always had shanty towns on big lakes, the best example I can think of is Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, heck a couple guys even had food/bait trailers out there and made a killing on coffee and wax worms, I was too young to really appreciate what I was seeing.


I wonder where the fish are

[idahohunter1]

I too have seen them at Mackay res. and a couple of years ago I saw one at sportsman's park (American Falls Res.), but that's all I've ever seen in SE Idaho.

[curt69]

Windriver had one on Ririe Resivior a couple of years ago .

[Groundtrac]

Yeah, and the wind ripped it apart one weekend and they ended up burning it on the beach, it was quite a sight.

Personally, i have never wanted to restrict my fishing to one spot to consider a hard side shanty.  I will go back to the same hole two days in a row and do real well one day and never have a bite the next.

[Iceflyer]

What about setting up a shanty as a home base for gear and supplies so that you can be more mobile on the ice.  I think it would be neat to use one as a bunk house for a 2 or 3 day week end trip.

[Woodland]

You also need to take into account the rare factor. In the Midwest people know what they are and expect to see them. Here (cascade for example) everyone who passed one would swing by and check it out and perhaps want to get inside. Side note did anyone else see on craigslist this fall someone selling wooden shipping containers for
$50 that would have been perfect?

[fowl_language]

You also need to take into account the rare factor. In the Midwest people know what they are and expect to see them. Here (cascade for example) everyone who passed one would swing by and check it out and perhaps want to get inside.

Yeah I suppose but you could lock it up I think people are mostly decent   

Side note did anyone else see on craigslist this fall someone selling wooden shipping containers for
$50 that would have been perfect?

  http://spokane.craigslist.org/for/4249635992.html

Yeah, and the wind ripped it apart one weekend and they ended up burning it on the beach, it was quite a sight.

I haven't thought about that before the wind is pretty impressive in this neck of the woods way more than over there.


I've thought about towing out my pop-up a few times to just camp out on the ice, I think if you cleared a 10X10 space in the snow and popped it up on a nice calm weekend or in a sheltered bay it would work pretty well for a weekend, similar to the wall tent idea but a little more mobile.

[Bearsfan]

http://spokane.craigslist.org/for/4249635992.html

Could you imagine having one of those out there. I would never be home.

[curt69]

Don't clear the snow . It will stay warmer and dryer inside .

[FshnAzn]

I haven't seen it in a while but the year before last, somebody had a deer camp type canvas tent set up on Cascade with what appeared to be a wood stove.  Never saw or asked anybody about they liked having their tent set-up but if I remember right, it was up for most of the season.