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Not sure who said it - but agree that in my younger years I just went - regardless of temps. Heck - we didn't all have these stupid phones attached to us to tell us the weather anywhere in the world 24/7...we just went!They say...with age come grace and wisdom...pretty sure that no one will call me graceful or wise - but I do know this. I too, pick my battles wisely. Sitting this one out - I'll use this time to reline, re-rig, repack and recharge. WELL SAIDWith these temps we will (certainly?) have ice for the foreseeable future...maybe even get some spring like temps with thick ice in late March and ice some fat bellied pre-spawn perch.
I was out last Saturday in -20. Didn't seem bad cuz it was so calm...7 degrees and 30mph gusts forecasted are probably keeping me home tomorrow though. I absolutely hate wind.
This thread makes me laugh. Its funny how some people actually call themselves ice fisherman yet complain when it gets a little cold. Around here if you don’t go out when it’s -20 or -30 you don’t fish and your winter is wasted. It doesn’t matter if you think your tuff or young or whatever, if you have the passion to fish get out and do it safely. I know plenty of old timers, in their 80’s, that regularly go out in stuff that anyone south of the 60th parallel have no real concept of. To cold is nothing more than a frame of mind.
AKhardwater, I just checked your profile and you are 40 years old. I hope I am wrong, but in 10 years you will probably start declining fishing on the coldest days of the winter. I never thought I would do that when I was your age, but now that I am 56, my body just does not function the way it used to, and more specifically to this topic, I simply can not enjoy being out in - 20 F weather for more than 1 hour. I hope you are one of the rare freaks that remains unaffected by extreme cold as you age !
No such thing. I love days like that. Keeps the crowds down.
Not sure why your on the guys case. He said where he is people fish that regularly. Never said you have to join him or that everyone that won’t fish in those temps ain’t an ice fisherman. How I read that is stop crying about a little bit cold. Fish when you want be a big boy and make your own choices. Myself I’ve been out 2 decently below 0* days this year in upstate New York 1 day the truck said -18* and the other was -12* before any wind chill. I was fine and when I got the shanty flipped closed I didn’t need gloves no heater. So it’s all relative. Enjoy the sport if that’s only fishing 2x a season with good ice and temps over 40* or if your like me and get out as much as the body and work and all other life duties allow. Tight lines Perchin
This thread makes me laugh. Its funny how some people actually call themselves ice fisherman yet complain when it gets a little cold.