THIN ICE!!
Minnesota Fishing
Dec 27, 2023 19:55:34 #
Grizzly 17
Loc: South central Pa
DVTracker wrote:
lol...that's a good one Griz.
lol...that's a good one Griz.Hillbilly wisdom DV 🤣👍
Jan 28, 2024 11:29:02 #
Musky33
Loc: Minnesota
Walleyeturkey wrote:
Homer,
No reason to apologize for using common sense. I love ice fishing but I tell people, “I will never be the first one out on the ice and I won’t be the last one off the ice.”
No reason to apologize for using common sense. I love ice fishing but I tell people, “I will never be the first one out on the ice and I won’t be the last one off the ice.”
I work at Cabelas and listen the fisherman talk about fishing on 2 or 3 inches of ice. That's nuts. No fish is worth dieing for.
Jan 30, 2024 21:43:53 #
MNMudminnow
Loc: MN (MSP metro/Alexandria) & FL (Ft.Myers)
If you want to be the unintelligent donkey to push your luck and limits on the ice(or anything else for that matter), that is your call. When what results from that ignorant choice ends up forcing other people to put themselves in dangerous situations is the real cost of your mistake.
It never fails to make the news a few times every year that a group of (fisher)men somehow found themselves on a slab of ice that has broken free & drifting off into open water (usually, Red Lake) while the local rescue teams contemplate a plan to retrieve them. I know it wouldn't be proper to leave them out there to figure it out on their own, but that's what should happen.
My suggestion to anyone looking to possibly join the list of rescued ice anglers by venturing out onto early or obviously thin or unstable ice is a very simple one that I think would make it nearly impossible to become one of the needed to be saved club...wear a life jacket(floatation) and bring some variety of lightweight boat to sit in on top of the ice in case you aren't on the ice for very long. Take a small jon boat or a plastic paddle boat or a canoe or a simple diving platform kind of structure or an inner tube or a stand up paddleboard or the best thing I'd like you to take is to take your ass back to the shore until there is more than enough ice to support you and your gear. That way you don't risk the life or health of anyone else and you don't earn yourself a derogatory image, or worse, around town for the fiasco you're responsible for.
It never fails to make the news a few times every year that a group of (fisher)men somehow found themselves on a slab of ice that has broken free & drifting off into open water (usually, Red Lake) while the local rescue teams contemplate a plan to retrieve them. I know it wouldn't be proper to leave them out there to figure it out on their own, but that's what should happen.
My suggestion to anyone looking to possibly join the list of rescued ice anglers by venturing out onto early or obviously thin or unstable ice is a very simple one that I think would make it nearly impossible to become one of the needed to be saved club...wear a life jacket(floatation) and bring some variety of lightweight boat to sit in on top of the ice in case you aren't on the ice for very long. Take a small jon boat or a plastic paddle boat or a canoe or a simple diving platform kind of structure or an inner tube or a stand up paddleboard or the best thing I'd like you to take is to take your ass back to the shore until there is more than enough ice to support you and your gear. That way you don't risk the life or health of anyone else and you don't earn yourself a derogatory image, or worse, around town for the fiasco you're responsible for.
Jan 31, 2024 00:46:54 #
MNMudminnow wrote:
If you want to be the unintelligent donkey to push... (show quote)
Here's the vehicle people need for thin ice
https://youtube.com/shorts/-G5xO9LzaM8?si=IUJuTyOEiP_RZB_6
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