"New" to ice fishing

[TheTallFisherman]

Easily put, I am a bit crazy and nothing interrupts my fishing! Lol!

 

[MuskieBait]

Easily put, I am a bit crazy and nothing interrupts my fishing! Lol!

I can relate. Fished outside at -30C with windchill when I was younger. Waded in knee high slush for 3km onto a shoal on Simcoe in early March. Drove to a new location in middle of the lake on Lady S in the middle of a white out with only GPS coordinates as guidance. Even got on barely 3" of ice on a small pond by myself with no one in sight...only life line was literally a 100 feet rope tied around my waist to a tree on shore. Have you ever made a 6" hole with a hand chisel through 12" of ice only to find 3 feet of water under you? LOL

Nowadays, I'm a lot safer and more calculated...

Anyways, just a tip for setting up the pop-up in the wind...secure the upwind corners with the ice anchors first. That should hold it down for you to pop the hut without losing it or breaking poles. Those two ice anchors should also be the last two to remove after you have pop down the hut.

 

[TheTallFisherman]

I can relate. Fished outside at -30C with windchill when I was younger. Waded in knee high slush for 3km onto a shoal on Simcoe in early March. Drove to a new location in middle of the lake on Lady S in the middle of a white out with only GPS coordinates as guidance. Even got on barely 3" of ice on a small pond by myself with no one in sight...only life line was literally a 100 feet rope tied around my waist to a tree on shore. Have you ever made a 6" hole with a hand chisel through 12" of ice only to find 3 feet of water under you? LOL

Nowadays, I'm a lot safer and more calculated...

Anyways, just a tip for setting up the pop-up in the wind...secure the upwind corners with the ice anchors first. That should hold it down for you to pop the hut without losing it or breaking poles. Those two ice anchors should also be the last two to remove after you have pop down the hut.

Aha we did have that one anchor in, it was the only anchor that was in and holding, as soon as we put on the other side, it just collapsed the popup!

And I have dug through 3 feet of ice with an axe when I was in my teens! I was ice fishing for the very first time and it was at my cottage... definitely nicer to have your own gear!

 

[tossing iron]

Must of been one hell of a long axe handle.

 

[TheTallFisherman]

Lmao 3 feet. The size of the hole was almost as big as my boat