Okay...I will admit that I have done it....once. Now that I have a little street cred, let me tell you what my thoughts are on the subject of ice fishing.
Find a lake with three feet of ice. Get a snowmobile, tie a rope to an outhouse and drag it out far enough that if the ice were to break there would be no way to make it back to shore, drill a hole through the ice, pull the outhouse over this little hole and get inside.
Once inside, imediately start scooping ice out of this little hole with a plastic strainer scoop while the buddy you are hunkered down with loads bait onto hooks tied to heavy line which are connected to little rods that might make a good bluegill rod for a four year old. And sit...and scoop...and bob your bait...and sit...and scoop some more. All the while you are freezing yer keester off and trying to get your fishing mojo going.
I sat for untold hours in this little outhouse and all I had to show for it was frozen fingers and toes, and a freaking carp. All that for a carp? Sorry folks...I am crazy for fishing, but that is just not my idea of fishing. The steps don't make it all the way to the porch...if you know what I mean....
Give me water that is cool or cold....but moving. Bugs both under and above the surface, and the abitily to actually cast.
No wonder the North won the war...anyone that would willingly do this for fun has got to be a bit crazy...and pissed. I mean...you would be ready to fight a buzz saw after ice fishing for a few hours.
Okay....I feel better now.
Those aren't the exact reasons I agree with you, but I do agree with you. If you want to see the reason I don't ice fish, drop me a note at mkautz@volcano.net and I'll forward it.
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I always wondered why "we" won the War of Northern Aggression, now I know. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah' I'm with you on the ice fishing thing. I'll gladly stand in 32 degree moving water, slush and all. But freeze the stuff solid and I have zero interest.