It's hot out on the ice ...
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 ...
Actually she’s much better looking.
Can I come visit. I would love to ice fish. Thanks. Now leave your address. I will bring my beer.
I hope you can get that big buck before he goes downhill. Better for the herd, etc. The scrub buck I got was still rutting (no surprise there, only the small, late does available that late in the season).
It's hot out on the ice ...
Dunno. I’m on FireFox and it looks OK from here. Sorry.
He’s a monster and I guess that he got that way by being the smartest one in the woods. I hope he just fades away, having earned a good life by being smarter than anyone I know.....
Uh, I do have an ice fishing joke, if you are interested.
I hate it when it gets cold enough that I have to wear long pants!
This year is really bad, I went to long pants 3 weeks ago about half the days.
The only fishing I want to do is in bare feet and shorts for marlin!
I’ve spent some time, over the years since the late 70’s in California.....
Y’all got to man-up when it dips down into the 60’s.....
;-)
We at a lot of fish in the 30s and 40s out of the canals of western FResno county and there was always bread on the table to eat if a bone got caught in your craw..
This will make you home sick...
We go after walleyes, perch, crappies and the pike, of which you speak.
And the cocktails.....
;-)
Aw, dang. you done spilled the beans.
We fished with tip-ups and live minnow bait.
Out there freezin our butts off one day (me and my dad) and one of the flags pops, so he starts fighting it. Took almost a half an hour to get it on the ice.
Over 40 inches long, thirty plus pounds, when he was pulling it up he had me chipping away to make the hole big enough to get it out!
Big as a small child!!
Up on Lake Mille Lacs they have plowed roads with street signs, and I believe mail delivery - out on the ice!
Oh yeah. I have an old plastic tackle and lure box someplace with sinkers and hooks and bobbers ready to go.. but being as wifey was born in Hawaii, winter ain’t her pick of the year to go there. :-)
It’s fun, there can be little cities of fishhouses on some of the lakes, all hoping to limit out on crappies, sunnies or whatever is biting.. the nice thing , the beer never gets too warm.
uhhh, nice boots. :]
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