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As best I can figure a lake trout (which is what we were catching) picked up the minnow and headed for Canada. I have to laugh at my stupidity and was wondering if any of you folks have some funny stories that are similar?I'll keep an eye out for it and ask my buddies to do the same!!
I had a favorite sunnie rod stolen by a gull. Left it at the edge of the hole to empty my bucket in a bag at the sled and a gull spotted the spike tipped rocker and grabbed it. I yelled and ran as fast as I could back to the hole. It was like in slow motion. The gull wings beating like a duck gaining altitude and my prized rod swung right past me and I missed it. Gone...last time I saw it was 500 feet up headed south. A friend lost his cell phone down the hole yesterday at sandbar north. Bummer to be sure. I felt bad for him.
I was fishing Joes last winter in my hardside, it sits 14 inches off the ice, and is almost 100square foot. After a few too many mixed drinks I went to arrange my bed, and lifted my blanket up. Saw something fly through the air, bounce bounce bounce and then splash. Looked at my buddy “what was that?” 3 seconds later my Bluetooth speaker stops playing music. Brand new iPhone 8 down the hole. 100 square foot shanty, 12 inch circle hole open to the outside. It managed to find that and then fall straight down the 8 inch hole below. .34% of the floor space.
Horseshoe shoal somewhere, a good long walk to get out there and from the looks of it no one else has been out there. But if you catch a laker with a clam meat stick medium action, and an old beat up abu Garcia orra sx taped to it, let me know!
I just heard that story this week from Walt.
Watch the ice out there. Currents from carry cut can really change the thickness on horseshoe at times. I have seen it change from a foot to a couple of inches in the past. I have a very experienced friend who splashed his wheeler out there about 5 years ago. It all ended well because he had a flotation suit but it cost him some bucks for the bike retrieval.Haven't seen Walt or George for a while. If you run into them say hi from me Ken.
Haven't seen Walt or George for a while. If you run into them say hi from me Ken.
In two days I lost 2 rods 1 skimmer and a camera flash.My buddy had this contraption that was called "The Jerk" some kind of shelf hook setting tip up.Well for about 3 years we made fun of him because the thing never got hit, then one day on a gravel pit where the above mentioned gearlays we finally heard "The Jerk" go off just in time to see it 3' in the air and headed straight for the hole. It went throughthat 8" hole without missing a beat, we stood there just amazed that (1) finally something felt sorry enough for my pal andgave it a tug (2) that it entered that 8" hole without hardly making a splash. In the diving world it would have been scored at least an 8.5 Lol. Now we make fun of him for getting 1 bite on "The Jerk"and seeing it disappear for ever.
This past weekend, my father lost his jig stick down the shanty hole because the soft ice and wind made the anchors come out (hub-style) and the side collapsed in. A little help from a large PK Spoon and the Aqua View and it was a successful recovery mission! It never gets old showing people the things they drop down the hole on an Aqua View.