Ice fishing II

[Big Dave]

I was listening to Garrison Keller yesterday and his take on Ice Fishing. He said you cut a hole four foot X five foot. Strip down to your skivies put your knife in your teeth and jump in!!!! He said you can catch the big ones that way and if you cant find you own hole to come back out of you just find someone elses. Hoping it is not one of those Rasttafarin Lutherens??? He also said there was a heat wave up there as it was now 30 degrees

[Cabin Fever]

A 4 x 5 foot hole is for spearfishing in a darkhouse....not for icefishing. Actually, 4x5 foot hole is rather large of spearing.

In icefishing one augers a 6 to 12" hole. My auger drills an 8" hole.

And yes, it surpassed 30ºF yesterday!

[Jerry in MN]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

He also said there was a heat wave up there as it was now 30 degrees

Yup, right around 25-30 F now at Lake of the Woods, where I'm at this morning. Hoping to get out on the ice, maybe even like 16 miles out, to fish with my brother. But we'll try to stay out of the water.

[arcticow]

Hate to say anything, but we have been between 32 and 45 for a week here, still going on.

[fixer1958]

Personaly, I don't do ice. I fell through once when I was about 14.
Kind of gives me the heebie jeebies to think about it.

I was looking for my FIL a few years ago at his place because he had some firewood that needed cutup and hauled out. I couldn't find him anywhere. I asked my MIL because it was her daY to watch him (kidding). she said he was out on the pond fishing for crappy. He has a 15 acre pond and he was smack in the middle hunkerd over a 6" in the ice.

After the cold sweats subsided, I carefully walk out there looking at all the cracks in the ice and hearing it pop. He showed me his haul of crappie and said to go get a pole and join him. I declined and just asked him where the trees where so I could just get the H%%% out of there.
He can't even swim.

[SolarGary]

Originally Posted by Jerry in MN

Yup, right around 25-30 F now at Lake of the Woods, where I'm at this morning. Hoping to get out on the ice, maybe even like 16 miles out, to fish with my brother. But we'll try to stay out of the water.

Hi,
Maybe you know Bob who turned in these pictures/plans for his ultra cheap solar heating collector for is ice fishing shack on Lake of the Woods:

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects...arIceShack.htm

Looks pretty cushey to me

Gary

[Big Dave]

Dark house? Are ya putting me on or is that for real? Anything 200lbs or better is big. Did they gig up there like frog giging down here? I am still for fighting it from the shore.

[artificer]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Dark house? Are ya putting me on or is that for real? Anything 200lbs or better is big. Did they gig up there like frog giging down here? I am still for fighting it from the shore.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/2...t-has-paid-off

[Mooselover]

Originally Posted by Wind in Her Hair

couple of weeks ago - some guy in Wisconsin speared a 212 pound sturgeon thought to be about 100 years old. Now THATS a fish- and yes, we have our fair share of plaid-wearing Neandrethals in Minnesota wielding spears, too.

we are having a heat wave, Big Dave - its 21ºF - but temps expected to dip to the "below zero" again mid week through next weekend.

sturgeon...the most ugly lookin thing i've ever seen but the most fun fish'in i've ever had. too small to keep (only by 1/4") still don't know what one tastes like

[MN Gardener]

Wow, sounds like Mr. Keller was talking about those crazy Finlanders after they take a sauna. We have had a heatwave lately, DH is out icefishing right now.

[uncle Will in In.]

In Indiana some ice fishermen take a chainsaw and cut a 6 inch wide slot about 100 yards long. They put a trolling motor on the front of a kids sled to pull it across the lake over the slot while they troll for bottle bass. I found this out when a local fisherman showed me the sled and a tub full of empty bottles in his pickem up truck. <>Unk

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

sturgion season opened up 2 weeks ago on lake Winibago , there the size of the hole depends on the shanty , but sure aproximatly 4x5

but asside from there , my auger only makes a 6 inch hole (hand auger), but i would often cheat and just use my spud bar to open op other peoples hols from the previose day

and yes it has been 30 , quite warm , you see kids walking to school with coats unzipped , i have been down to just a quilted flannel all last week were at that time of winter when everyone is aclimated to the cold , it just doesn't feel as cold any more.

i have an uncle who used to comercial fish thru the ice , they would cut a hole and they had a bright orange sled called a jigger it had a spring cam on it an you pulled on a line then let go and it pushed it forward , one guy would do that while the other would follow it when they had it a hundred feet or so they cut another hole and popped out the jigger , then they had a line from hole to hole , under the ice , they did this a few times then pulled a gill net allong under the ice from hile to hole then left it and came back the next day , to pull it. not exactly easy work but they made a livving at it when layed off from work in the ship yard durring the winter

[rambler]

Here in south western Minnesota, we are waiting for that heat wave. Been a good 10-15 degrees colder from our deep snowpack than the Twin Cities or up north have had. No melting going on yet.

Tired of the cold!

Lots of pickups and ice houses out on the rivers & lakes yet. Think down here they can't remain overnite anymore at the end of the month? You have an extra 15 days or so up north?

--->Paul

[DaleK]

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Been getting a couple of hours of melting here every afternoon for the last week, just enough to get some mud on the firewood when we're loading it.

[Jerry in MN]

Originally Posted by SolarGary

Hi,
Maybe you know Bob who turned in these pictures/plans for his ultra cheap solar heating collector for is ice fishing shack on Lake of the Woods:

Thanks SolarGary, that looks like a nifty fish house, but it looks like Bob would be across the lake.