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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Feb 12, 2009
Description:
I took this picture for you southern Seareyers to prove that you can drive on water. The ice is about 36 inches thick. The little buildings on the lake are fish houses to keep warm while fishing through a hole in the ice. It becomes like a little city on the lake with roads plowed on the ice. At the end of the month they all have to be removed. The water does not become liquid again until April.
Date Taken:
Feb 12, 2009
Place Taken:
Minnesota
Owner:
Tom Rammel
File Name:
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Feb 12,2009
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A familiar sight here in Maine too Tom, except you see mostly pickups on our lakes, ayuh....<br /><br />Our southern Searey friends just don't know what they're missing, do they?
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Frank A. Carr - Feb 12,2009
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No Mark, we don't know what we're missing; that's why these photos are useful reminders of why we live in the South.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Feb 12,2009
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Happy to oblige Frank - here's another...(last year's ski plane fly-in on Beech Hill Lake).<br /><br />I heard that Jacksonville was down to 18 degrees F. a week or so ago, was that true? That's cold even by our standards.<br /><br />Btw, Maine officially broke it's state low temp record in January by hitting minus 50 deg F. in the northern part along the Quebec border.
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Frank A. Carr - Feb 13,2009
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Read about the minus 50 in Maine and thought about you folk up there. How'd that work for you? Here in SW <br />Florida, we've had our coldest winter in at least 10 years according to my heating bills. It's plunged to the 30's on <br />a few occasions and we're downright unhappy about that! It does help climb performance however.<br /><br />The BeechHill photo looks better if only because there are airplanes in it, but I wonder with all the hats, scarfs, <br />gloves, coats, foot warmers, and boots, how you manage to climb and fit into the cockpit?
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Philip Mendelson - Feb 13,2009
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I have always been curious, do you guys really catch any fish, or is it an excuse to get out of the house....
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Tom Rammel - Feb 13,2009
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Some I am sure use it to get away, some may even meet another female companion. But not me. I think most are avid fisherman.
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Dennis Scearce - Feb 12,2009
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So, if there are heaters in those little ice fishing houses, what keeps the ice from melting and sinking the little house, or at least the fisherman?
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Tom Rammel - Feb 13,2009
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Since heat rises it melts very little ice. Also the ice is 36 inches thick. The house is not heated to 70 degrees.
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Victor Wallace Strawbridge - Feb 13,2009
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Coleman lantern for light and heat? Catching smelt?
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Charles Pickett - Feb 13,2009
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Ray Boyles - Feb 15,2009
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WOW! You just ruined my image of a heavily-clothed, semi-frozen, northern ice fisherman huddled against the cold in a re-modeled, unheated outhouse over a hole in the ice. Now I wonder if any fishing gets done in between drinking beer, watching TV and eating gourmet foods in one of those fancy, heated, ice-fishing buildings. Do they also have pizza delivery on the ice? Does Hooters have a franchise on the ice? I think that I may have found a new hobby to crave.
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Tom Rammel - Feb 15,2009
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Yes Ray, sometimes you can get pizza delivery but only if your fish house is easy to identify. (Like the one that has two stories, or the one with the satilite dish although more and more have dishes now.) No Hooters franchise.
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Charles Pickett - Feb 16,2009
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Ray The fishing is in auto, a flag jumps up and a bell rings when you have a fish to remove. That is only when you actuality put bate on the hook if you have a hook
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Tom Rammel - Feb 16,2009
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Charlie is right the device he is talking about is called a tip up, because the flag tips up when a fish is on the line.
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Terry Mac Neill - Feb 17,2009
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This picture reminded me of an ice fishing experience. I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and my dad took me ice fishing on Hubbard lake. This lake is 9 miles long by 4 miles wide and approx. 100 feet at its deepest place. My dad had a 1929 Henney hearse and that is what we drove out on the lake. That hearse was a ' TANK ' and weighed about 5000 lbs. Now a 9 year old kid is not a rocket scientist, however I did think my dad was NUTS for taking that thing out on the ice. Come to think of it, I must have been NUTS to go with him.<br /><br />A friend of my dad had loaned the ice fishing shanty to him to go fishing and away we went. The shanty was about 6 ft. x 8 ft. and had a kerosene stove for heat. The fishing hole was about 2 ft. wide x 4-5 ft. long. My dad had a spud that he used to recut the ice that has formed in the fishing hole ( everybody knows what a spud is , yes ??? )<br />The main objective was to catch a mess of perch, but my dad had also brought a spear in case a pike swims thru the hole. <br /><br />Remember that I said the shanty was 6 ft. wide ...... 2 ft. from the door for the main fisherman, because if he spears a pike, the fastest way to get the fish out of the water is to open the door and run with the spear rope. The fishing hole is 2 ft. wide and that leaves 2 ft. for a 18 ' bench and 6 ' for your feet. Yup, you guessed it, my dad lifts me across that 2 ft. hole and sets me on the 18 ' bench ....... can my feet touch the floor ?? NO !!! and now I am in full PANIC mode, I know that I am going to fall thru that hole, but no normal kid challenges his dad, because he has taken me fishing.<br /><br />The water was about 20 ft. deep and crystal clear and we could see all the way to the bottom. My dad asked me if I wanted to fish, and I told him that I will just watch.<br />I know that I have to lean forward if I am going to look down the hole and I will fall in.<br />I remember my dad showing me a mud puppy crawling across the bottom. It looks kind of like a lizard with a cat fish like head ( UGLY ).<br /><br />Shhh, says my dad, we got a pike coming in. Pike apparently are sensitive to noise and movement and that is why they paint the inside of the shanty flat black so there is no light in the shanty. Hubbard Lake is famous for its large pike, bass , perch and lake trout. Dad guessed that the pike might be 3 to 4 ft. long, and he wants this fish.<br />He gets the spear ready and hands the end of the spear rope to me. Here we go again, dad are you NUTS, if you spear this pike and he makes a run for it, I am going to be pulled down thru that hole and you will nevver see me again .......( well, maybe in the spring ) I don't think there were sherriff dept scuba dive teams in 1951. Well the pike did come into the hole and checked out the chub decoy that dad had put down the hole.<br />The decoy had fins and an angled tail and as you pulled up and down on the string the decoy would swim around in circle and that was my job. Dad lined up the spear and sent it down towards the pike, I was impressed. We both looked down the hole to see the result. The spear rope did not tighten up, there was a cloud of mud stirred up from the pike making a mad dash to safety. Dad MISSED that S.O.B. pike and I breathed a tremendous sigh of relief ............. I'm not going swimming today YEA, HALLELUJAH, RIGHT ON !!!!! MY dad said kinda loudy S.O.B. and then looked at me and said ' don't you tell your mother '<br /><br />Now, I got to tell you why my dad missed that pike ....... the ice thickness was about 18 inches thick and that is o.k. to drive on , however sometimes when cars or trucks drive by the ice will crack, and I guarantee you that sound will make you soil your underwear ...... well just as dad was throwing the spear, there was a tremendous ice crack noise and that scared the pike ....... talk about timing.<br /><br />Well time to close, but other than the fear of falling thru that fishing hole, the most important event took place that day .......... MY dad took me fishing..... Thanks Dad<br /><br /><br /><br />
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Jon Ladd - Feb 17,2009
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Terry, I don't have a clue what ice fishing is... but this is a great story. Thanks for sharing!
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Dan Nickens - Feb 17,2009
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I have no idea what a spud is, but I know a great adventure story when I hear one. It has disturbing implications, though, Terry. I'm starting to wonder if seaplane pilots are all afflicted with crazy, loving families.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 17,2009
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Lovely story, Terry! I especially like the way you built up the suspense again and again, right to the end.
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