Posted on 01/05/2021 7:17:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
“Hey [fishermen!!!!] We are now offering ice delivery starting tomorrow”
Yeah, just what ice fishermen need. Ice!
I’m a southerner to the core, so ice fishing is a completely alien concept to me. It looks like an excuse to drink beer while waiting on a fish to bite ... So, fishing, just with ice. Not really seeing anything special about it, but it sounds pretty awesome.
True story.
First winter in Erie, PA.
A new friend invited me to go ice fishing on the lake.
Basically a towed living room cabin on skis.
With a hole in the middle to fish.
Could have been a reality show of “Pimp my ice fishing house.”
Exactly!
I had a snow delivery service for Eskimos. Didn’t last long.
On lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota they have “towns” of ice fishing shacks to cabins. Plowed roads on the ice. IIRC, one of them has a Post Office!
Tip-ups and sitting on upturned buckets holding these tiny ice-fishing rods, waiting for perch or walleyes to bite. One year I caught a mud-puppy and kept it alive for the next eight months in a fish-tank. I also remember the time when I was 14 and we stopped off at a bar-and-grill to get something to eat and I had my first beer, a Carling Black Label.
Ah, to be young again ...
Effing brilliant.
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Tell us “your nearest cross street.”
Wow, that’s a big ice fishing population.
Sounds like a whole ‘nother world up there!
Two people went through the ice on Houghton Lake yesterday, thankfully rescued.
You're standing there, over a hole cut in the ice, waiting for a sturgeon to swim by so you can throw a harpoon at them.
Be careful they don't pull you in.....
Good old American ingenuity. Great idea!
People up here go ice fishing; I had to cover their derby (as a journalist). Invariable people were having so much fun.
In one front-page picture I took, everyone posed while holding up their beer cans.
I said, “Guys? There’ll be more of a chance to get in the paper if you hide the beer.” LOL!
I didn’t think my boss would go for it.
See, and I’m just a reporter for a small town weekly. Imagine what sorts of made-up things reporters have to do in an important daily American newspaper.
From what I’ve seen, the only consumable ice fishermen need comes in a case of 24.
I think it was one of the Bourdain episodes, he goes ice fishing with a couple gourmet chefs, perhaps in Quebec? Montreal or Quebec City?
Anyway, they were doing it right, and much fine eating and drinking was done.
Sounds like a good time to me. IOW ... fishing.
“Here, Fishy-Fishy!” PING!
I used to go ice fishing with my Sister In Law. No matter WHERE we set up, that woman pulled HUGE Muskies and Northern Pike through the ice - not an easy thing to do!
And then she’d kiss them and release them back down the hole, LOL!
(But we always kept and ate all the pan fish we caught on any given day!)
Good times. She’d have loved this idea. RIP, Girlfriend!
This all makes me want to fish, but it’s too cold here, and I have a really busy next few days anyway. Ugh.
There was a Frasier episode where they went ice fishing and dropped the car keys in the hole. 😆
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