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It's not like a movie or a wedding when showing up late is no big deal...Icefishing is much more important.
Luckily I've never been in the same boat as you. I fish alone most of the time, and when I do invite someone to go with me, I make sure that they are a person of their word. I only have one fishing buddy that lives around me and he goes with me about once every two weeks. I like to fish at least 5 hours or more every time I go out. Every time he goes with me, he starts hinting that he's ready to go home after a couple hours. Unless you have someone who's as much as an ice nut as you are, then you're better off bein' a lone ranger.'
When it comes to hunting or icefishing you get a 5 minute "grace period" then you are on your own, I don't wait and I don't wake people up. When you are driving you make the rules. Answering a cellphone on the ice, that's a completely different issue.
My brother is horrible for showing up late, doesn't chip in for gas or food, he doesn't even help load HIS gear into the truck. I finally had it. Last year when gas was $4+ I told him he had to help with the gas, or no fishing. He didn't even buy a licence. Oh well.
Sounds like my ex bro-in-law/buddy. Needless to say he didnt go in the boat last summer.
Had a guy that use to go on our spring trip and just get smashed. On his LAST trip he had his 18 $ K-mart pole in one hand and tackle box full of loose hooks and about 1000 split shots in the other. Well he was cocked and tried to hand them down the bank to me in the boat. Well there was about 10 inches between the bank and boat. He slid down the bank and the only thing that landed in the boat was the tackle box. Which exploded releasing all the hooks and split shot. He was wedged between boat and bank. That was 5 years ago and every now and then I will find a hook or split shot in the boat and remember how hard he made me laugh on his last trip.
Hi allHere a good 1 for ya never ice fished be for its not that often we get the ice so I got talked into going was told just bring a license OK no problem wally world is open was to meet at 6am at the lake 615 I'm on the phone which there is no reply now I'm **censored** so I stopped at the local bait and tackle shop tell the guy in the store what happened ask him what do I need to do this and all this happen this week bought 3 tipups bait and a bit of tackle the man that has the store called his wife to mind the shop he took me back to the ice put 3 hole in it set me up thank god it was a nice day and left with in 1 hour had a 24 inch rainbow dam near **censored** my pants packed up stopped back at the store to say thankyou and now I'm his customer now still green at ice fishing but I'm hooked and to my friend that hung me out there I say THANKYOU best thing you ever did for me