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OT Ice fishing questions
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:50:27 -0600, Ignoramus32184
wrote: I am in Northern Illinois. We have a small lake nearby. I would estimate that, after extended cold weather, the ice is at least 15 inches thick. I have never done ice fishing and I have questions that are pretty basic. 1) I assume that with a snow shovel and a 6 foot long straight steel prybar, it should not be a problem to clear a foot of snow and to break through that ice. 2) When I was a kid, I walked past a recently abandoned ice fishing hole in Russia. I was shocked to see a giant quantity of fish crowding the hole, as if they were starved of air and needed desperately to get a fresh breath of air. Is that due to oxygen deprivation on an ice covered lake, or was the hole chummed? Is there some way to get the same effect? The lake was frozen at least for 5-6 weeks, IIRC. i I grew up in northern New England and ice fishing was a good way to spend weekends when everything was snowed in. We carried a snow shovel and an ice auger ( you can make one ) and just shoveled/scrapped off enough snow to get to something fairly solid. Auger the hole and set your trap. As I remember we used live minnows for bait. The "traps" were a folding wood cross with a small reel, to hold the fish line, on the bottom arm and a flag on the upper. The cross arm kept it from falling down the hole :-) The flag was on a spring and bent over and caught on the reel. If the reel turned it released the spring. You built a fire and sat around the fire ( with the elders frequently drank from some brown bottles that they kept in a hip pocket ) and us kids ran around on the ice and when a flag popped up raced to the hole to get the fish - just haul them in and throw them out on the ice. You can build everything you need so, other then the minnows, it is a pretty cheap sport. |
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