Another reason I don't ice fish!!

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Hey Rick, good thing you left MN.... this could have been you too....LOL

Dan.

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Just a few cute stories......

If had only learned to carry a camera years ago.......I lived a block away from Lake Marion in Lakeville, MN. One evening in February we had VERY high winds and 60 some degrees. The following morning my ex and I drove to the boat landing in time to witness one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. The lake is shaped like a peanut and in the center most portion of the lake, the wind had opened up a channel about 100 across that stretched from one shore to the next. There was at least 75 cars/trucks backed up to the opening and fishing in the open water!!!! RIGHT in front of us were three fish houses that were about 50 feet apart. The one on the left had fallen through, the one on the right was sunk in about a foot and the middle one was starting to sink. Hooked to the fish house was a 4 wheel drive truck with a box camper and a logging chain trying to pull the house free. Did he not notice the other two had fallen through??????? We sat in our car for about 3 hours but never saw one car fall through. Damn!

I used to love when people visited me from somewhere in the deep south in the winter. I would take them for a drive of the area and then without cluing them in I would drive out onto what they thought was a flat snow covered "field". As we would be driving across the "field" they always asked why the farmers out here set up shacks in the fields and what were they doing. I said hang in and we will stop and ask one of them. The look on their face was always priceless when you opened the door on the "shack" and saw a couple of people sitting on chairs jigging a pole through a hole filled with water. It usually only took about 3 seconds before they realized where they were. Pricelss!!!

The last one I do have photos of if I can find them. We had a winter with very little snow covering, likely only about 6" on the lake. Since it had been a cold winter the ice was over 36" thick. We had a day in the high sixties which melted all the snow on the lake and covered it with about 2" of water. Several of us decided to go ice fishing and use the water to our advantage. I sat on the tailgate of the truck with a fish locator and we drove around with me dragging the transducer behind the truck in the water which enabled us to get a reading. When we found fish, we stopped and drilled some holes. 45 Crappies and a 140 Sunfish in about 4 hours. One of the guys took pictures of us driving across the lake with me pulling the locator and it looks like we were literally driving on the water. Neat pictures!

I have endless ice fishing stories and have seen it all after living 40 years in Minnesota. Some REALLY dumb people here!