01-17-2007, 04:42 AM
Um, I would do that only if you planned on ice fishing in single digits up here [
]. I told my wife it didn't get that cold in the Boise valley. She now wonders what cold is, if this isn't that cold. I told her growing up in Idaho Falls, where January would see -30 F, I probably don't have a good frame of reference.
We used to gauge how cold it was by fishing the southfork in winter. If your spinning rod guides completely iced up before you got your lure fully retrieved, it was too cold. If you had to chip the ice out of your guides only every two to three casts, it was painful, but not too cold. [cool]
As far as it being the end of the world, I had always imagined I would be engulfed in flames, not ice...[]
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]. I told my wife it didn't get that cold in the Boise valley. She now wonders what cold is, if this isn't that cold. I told her growing up in Idaho Falls, where January would see -30 F, I probably don't have a good frame of reference.We used to gauge how cold it was by fishing the southfork in winter. If your spinning rod guides completely iced up before you got your lure fully retrieved, it was too cold. If you had to chip the ice out of your guides only every two to three casts, it was painful, but not too cold. [cool]
As far as it being the end of the world, I had always imagined I would be engulfed in flames, not ice...[
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