Posted on 12/16/2008 7:16:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Ice fishing is ubiquitous in Minnesota, home to the largest ice angler population in the nation.
Most of us don't give a second thought when thousands of ice fishing houses and thickly dressed anglers show up each winter on frozen lakes and rivers around the state.
That just happens here.
But it's also what makes us unique.
"Ice fishing is this really distinctive thing of living up north; people who don't live here think it's nutty," said Greg Breining of St. Paul.
And, of course, staring for hours into a faintly illuminated hole bored through the ice is a little bit nutty. But several hundred thousand of us do it anyway.
Breining, 56, a freelance writer, and friend Layne Kennedy, 51, a freelance photographer from Minneapolis, both long noticed that intriguing things happen each winter from Moorhead to Montana and from Maine to Moscow when soft water turns hard.
So, of course, they wrote a book about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Pretty poor journalism. This guy wrote a long article about ice fishing, and neglected to mention alcohol and nagging wives even once.
Ditto and I’m not even Catholic.
Because people who go hunting and ice fishing aren’t the kind of people who can sit in front of a TV and be brainwashed by a liberal.
We used to freeze when we were young and broke. Nowadays, the shacks have heat, lights, indoor plumbing, dish TV’s, stoves, microwaves........
“Nothin’ better than Yellow Perch caught ‘true de ice!’ :)”
Amen....
Wanted to. Has dumped me 3 times as of last Tuesday. She keeps coming back though. Last time went to Eaest BF Wisconsin to bring her back. 3 yts ago sent her a lobstergram at her mom’s house in wisconsin for 4th of july. Lobstergram called me to the town was “very remote” and couldn’t guarantee delivery. It was delivered and the UPS guy still remembers the delivery!
Coward.
;-)
Winter and early spring.....Yep.
>Too many small bones. I live alone. No one to do Heimlich Manever.<
Hope you never need this but you can do it to yourself. Wait until your stomach is extended then drop yourself onto the back of the chair or onto the seat.
‘cept maybe dat beer batter on duh perch! Yah der hey!
But at least you warm up in the whales gut...
Hey!! No joy this year on my first SmokePole deer hunt in MN.
If it were legal, I could have harvested a VERY large 12 pointer that only comes into our woods after 1 AM, according to our trail cameras. We’ve been watching him for the past three years. On film, only.....
One of my favorite quotes is from a radio disk jockey many years ago, from memory:
You know, ice fishing made a lot more sense when I was still drinking.
What up, Daffy?
I’m only seeing red X’s instead of pics in your posts.....
That’s HER!
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