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[  ] [  ][size 1] Well , Its getting that time of the year that people will start heading out to check the ice on the lakes. Remember to practice all the saftey pointers you've learned ! Most of the drownings during icefishing , comes at first ice when people try to get a head start on everyone else . Its not so dumb to bring a life preserver , a rope , ice picks , whatever you can think !! I think Dave has some tips on this subject on his fishing tips , check it out !! When your out there , and something happens , be prepared , or you might loose your best friend !! I'm done preaching !!!
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[cool]I hear ya, dude! Good advice. I'm a little chicken (or smart, depending on how you look at it) and don't go out on the ice unless there's a good 4 inches of good quality clear ice. I know it's considered safe if there's a good 3 inches, but I still like at least one more inch. I got a kid now and one more on the way (and still don't have a good life insurance policy yet-SHAME on me!). There's some guys on the Utah board that have been known to go out on like 2 1/2 inches. I weigh 200 pounds, so I don't do that. If I weighed like a buck 40 or 50 then maybe I would chance that.
Anyway, I wish it was ice season right now, but I can wait another month and a half. Besides, I wanna catch some fall walleyes first from my tube!
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[font "Impact"][#ff4040][size 3]I'm with Out4Trout, I wouldn't go out on anything that is less than 4 inches thick. I'm just way too cautious about things like that. I just wouldn't want to die like that. Going out fishing is one thing, but I don't think through the ice would be fun. [/size][/#ff4040][/font]
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Like Flagmanonice mentioned, a life jacket is definitely a great thing to have when you're out on the early ice. If you're worried about warmth, there's two life jackets worth considering that I found on the Cabela's website (see the upper left corner).
What I did on the site was a search for "life jackets". The two life jackets I'm talking about are the "Mustang Survival™ Flotation Bomber Jacket" and the "Stearns® Flotation Jacket". They have long sleeves.
Definitely worth considering when you want both warmth and saftely.
The biggest thing during the ice season is not the fish you catch or even your ice house. It's safety. Bring the life jacket (I bring my summer one along since I can't afford one of the ones I mentioned).
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[  ] Rat !!! , Get off that moldy money and spend some of it , it won't reproduce in there ya know !!!
P.S Bought another portable !! YE HA !! , Remember , the one with the most toys wins !!! LOL !!!
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Flagman, if I had any money to sit on, I would spend it! I'm too busy just trying to make it from paycheck to paycheck. Have even considered getting rid of my internet connection just so I could actually have money to pay bills that matter.
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sorry you are a member I hate to welcome any one to this club, there are a bunch of us waiting to see what the heating bill is going to do us this winter.
we are in need of a major tequnology change, and I mean we are decades behind in the need world wide.
I scratch my head in wonder with all the millions of sientist in the world we havent figured away to heat our homes and transport our selves back and forth with out the use of nuke and fosil fuel... I mean dont we have sientist who dont work for opek'? there will always be a need for fosil fule but with the popolation explosion we cant keep going like this.
I am not a big fan of global worming, it keeps messin with my ice fishing....
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The funny thing is, we're no farther away from the daily use of fire than cavemen were, in fact, we're more dependent.. It controls our nearly every aspect of our lives.
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I agree fully, as a society we are enslaving ourselves.
I just hope they have something better than armgedon and plauge planned at the end of all this when we run out of resorses... I just hate when they dont plan for tomarow.....
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It wont be pretty, and whats more, we can seeing it taking now.. Look at the 3rd world nations, their a prime example of over population coupled with shrinking resources. What we see there is a mere fraction of whats to become of this old rock. When the final push comes to shove you can bet your last buck it aint worth the paper its printed on other than to burn for heat. At that point all the good guy rules fly out the window and it becomes survival of the fittest. We humans as a species have then turned a full circle..
But, "a country boy will survive" .
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I just wished that our leaders had enuf sence to call it like it is,
this country pretends that it is not a problem and floods our broken economy with hundreds of thousands of imigrants per year. dont get me wrong I dont mind immigrants, it is just over populatiing the country and not solving the population problem in other countries is not the answer..
this is a world wide problem and is the greatest single issue, greater than global worming and greater than where our next power sorce is going to come from.
third world (well not even thrid world but poverish) nations in africa openly kill off millions of people a year because they cant tell their own people they have to stop over populating. It makes me wonder if we made a mistake liberating some of the back world places from thier own coustoms and religions regardless to how we priceived them, they were after all a proven method of birth control that worked for them for thousands of years.
You would think this would be tought in our schools. It is more of a taboo than religion... go fighre [crazy]
But once enugh fresh water melts from our glasers and polar caps the salt content in our oceans will be deluded enough to allow the oceans to cool and bring on the next ice age over night.... Then I can get in some prime ice fishing in florida....LOL
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Right, and to say nothing of what will take place weather wise once the ocean's solidity drops far enough to causing the ocean currents to stop.
Boy arent we the bearers of great news? Maybe chicken little had it right.. The sky will be falling.
But like you say, we'll be able to ice fish in Florida. LOL,, we'll be able to teach Snooker how to ice fish for Tarpon so it aint all bad news. [ ]
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can ya emagine ice fishing for shark?
the boyz in iceland do... they pull one thousand pound shark through a hole in the ice. can you emagine the under taking and the number of anglers it would take to pull a shark up with a hand line?
I dont know if I would like to try it my self, I would have a hard time letting go of the line, I am a land it or break it sort of angler...LOL, I would like to see it on film or even in person should I ever hit the lottery.
I wonder what safty precausions they use to keep from being pulled in though such a big hole. I would emagine the hole would have to be at least six feet in diamiter....
and the bait they use, my word, its bigger peices of fish than what we are fishing for though our little holes..[sly]
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