Looks like my planned trip for next week may be cancelled or postponed due to lack of funds this week.[frown] I will see what happens.
Here on the right coast, it seems every time I think the water level is down and safe, we get rain before I can go and here it comes, right back up. Catch-22 almost.
**Fishing is supposed to teach patience, but sometimes you gotta wonder if we might be learning it a bit too well. **
**Builds character? I’m already enough of a character. **
PLEASE GOD, GIVE ME PATIENCE…AND I WANT IT RIGHT NOW.
**Fishing is supposed to teach patience, but sometimes you gotta wonder if we might be learning it a bit too well. **
**Builds character? I’m already enough of a character. **
PLEASE GOD, GIVE ME PATIENCE…AND I WANT IT RIGHT NOW.
I’m not greedy, selfish or impiente. I just want it all, for me, right now![:p]
OK I am a ICE Fishing newbie. My wonderful beautiful daughter is giving me a Ice pole for christmas. I have bucket and some jigs. So I guess im set. Just need a buddy with an auger, heater, tent, snow machine, fishfinder and hot coco and a 4X4 (and any thing else you might think that will add to my enjoyment) to go with! [;)]
You’re on your way. In years past I did very well ice fishing with just one rod, a bucket, a few lures, some nightcrawlers and a hand auger. No sonar or foo foo gear. But, I gotta admit that it can make a difference if you are properly outfitted with some of the modern refinements.
You’re on your way. In years past I did very well ice fishing with just one rod, a bucket, a few lures, some nightcrawlers and a hand auger. No sonar or foo foo gear. But, I gotta admit that it can make a difference if you are properly outfitted with some of the modern refinements.
Im not buying a thing until find out if I like it. Jig fishing is not my favorite way of fishing, and sitting in the cold jigging… well, don’t know if I will even like it, but I am going to give it a shot. If I do… well im going do my part next year to get our economy back on track! LOL
Will see how it goes. If any one cares to take a newbie with them after Christmas, let me know.
Until then…Merry Christmas every one!
Well I have tjhe auger and a sled. I have used the fishin buddy in the past but I find that I haven’t really needed it for ice fishng much. Done well without it.
So when do you want to go Mark?
Dude i here you man. 2nd weekend of january I’m going to San Diego. Fish them docks for monster Spotties. Gonna hotwire a hotel room for a couple days and fish 2 tides a day. Haa last time I was down that way was so good. Good thinking tube dude. This time im gonna fish the drop shot instead of the lead heads. Loose too many. Mabey heavy line too.
dude catch me a floatation nation hat
Welcome aboard. Nice bass in the pic. Just love those things on plastic.
no such thing as a winter doldrum… if nothing else its a good time to tune up/replace the gear, plus the rivers are opn… fyi if you wade them like a maniac like i do, be sure to be on your toes to dodge the ice bergs floating down stream
That’s a big negatore on the iceberg dodging good buddy. But, I do my share at ice out, which is some of the best fishing of the year. Attaching a pic from last March of some mini ice bergs on Willard Bay.
I have definitely been using the “down time” to good advantage. Since the “big chill” set in around the first part of December I have built or repaired a half dozen rods and have poured and painted many dozens of various jigs. I will be finished with all of my arts and crafts in a week or so and then I will be ready to rumble again.
That is what our last trip to Scofield looked like! Be kicking along them get rear ended, turn around all mad ready to say “WHAT THE HECK…COULDN’T YOU SEE ME”, only to find out it was a chunk of ice.
Also funny how the temp drops in your brain, once you see the ice.
Also fished some rivers in Idaho where it can get pretty scary. Be standing in the river and look up stream and see BIG chunks heading your way. Can’t run fast enough!
**Always best when you are in control…or think you are. But sometimes Mama Nature plays nasty. **
My (potentially) worst experience with ice was late one February on Starvation Reservoir. The ice was just breaking up and I was out tubing and casting along the edges of the ice for some bodacious browns. There was a slight offshore breeze so I kept moving further and further away from the dam, where I had launched earlier, as the breeze shifted the remaining big ice sheet. (no sheet)
At some point, I felt the breeze shift and start blowing into my face…and I had to kick backwards to stay away from the ice so I could keep casting along the edge. Then it occured to me that the ice was pushing me back toward the dam. Not good.
I was in an old donut tube but I put my fins in gear and threw up a roostertail trying to beat the ice back to the dam. I didn’t wanna get caught in betwixt the ice and the rocks if they were gonna have a meeting.
The breeze kept getting stronger and the ice kept moving faster toward me but I managed to kick up onto a sandy strip next to the rocks of the dam. I picked up my tube around my waist and jogged backwards up the hill while wearing my fins and my donut. I’ll bet that would have been hilarious on Utube.
**I was only about 30 feet up the bank when the ice sheet hit the dam and began sliding up the face of the rocks. Sure glad I wasn’t there to see it more up close and personal. But, it could have been a great weight loss program. **
I know exactly what you are talking about.
We went to Grantsville one year. Big slab of ice right in the middle with all out side edges open. Enough to get out in the H3 and kick around.
Wind picked up a bit and after awhile I noticed the ice was moving.
Alan cracked me up, cause I looked over at him and he was sitting in his tube, but both were way up on the ice, so he was using the H3 as a chair on the ice casting into the open water. Not really sure how he did it, but it was cool. To bad I didn’t get a picture.
But as you said, the ice closed us off from exiting the way we came in. Thank Gawd Grantsville is allot smaller than Starvation!
Thats some crazy ice tubing story TD. I never taught
about the ice danger that way.
It sure would not be very good to get between the ice
and rocks. I’m very sure that the ice would win…
Got to watch out.
Peter
dude catch me a floatation nation hat
Hey, what’s up man… Hats fell through, everybody flaked.
Let me know when you are coming down and I’ll try and go get some of those spotties with you.