Winter, wind, snow short days it is crazy to think but it is a awesome time a year. The lakes start to freeze little cities turn up all over the frozen lakes of the north. It is ice season. It is a out for most of us. A place where we can go and visit talk and fish. Let just say it is a special time of year for us northerners. Normally we have a couple beers and tell all the stories of the big one that got knocked off at the hole. It is a certain safe haven when old man winter has a grasp on us. It was here in my special place that something I saw bothered me.
Let me preface this with I did not witness i just stumbled across it. At the time I did not put all the pieces together but have since and they have been confirmed. A friend and I were leaving a lake one night it was cold snowing and windy. We started off the lake to get back to our truck and saw someone stuck in a drift. We did the neighborly thing and offered help. He asked if we would pull him out. I did not really want to go down there that is why I parked higher on the road but we did. We got him out easily then He asked if we could pull his buddy out. He showed us where he was and I could not believe where he was. Stuck in the snow way off any road. There was no way to get to him without everybody being stuck. We decided to walk over and check it out. On the way we noticed another vehicle that has been hit in the rear by something. Back window was knocked out smashed pretty bad. It was dark and hard to see what did the damage. We walked on and the vehicle that was stuck in the snow the driver was let's just say unable to talk. So I asked the first person we pulled out maybe you should just take him home and worry about this tomorrow. At this point we walked back to the truck and headed for home. After all was said and done I realized that they wanted it out because he was the one that hit that other vehicle.
End of the story is he got caught but it has really bothered me and made me think about everyone being safe. To think about heading back to your truck after fishing to find it smashed is not the end of a good day. Also it bothered me because if we would have been able to get him out of the snow he would of just left and never said a word or been able to because of the alcohol.
As I said it is a awesome time of year and we all love it. Please be careful not to ruin it for other people. I hope that person that got his vehicle smashed keeps fishing that lake and catches a records fish.
