Today

[David Kearney]

Today would been a great day to go fishing...instead I am sitting at this damn computer...I miss my fishing days!!

 

[YAWN]

heheh u feel just like me.

I just baught a fish finder used for 80 bux for the canoe,
portable wide 100 humingbird for 80 bux I think it was reasonable not sure thought.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/spo/931729649.html

The only reason was because maybe some of u remember i was complaining about being skunked in alqonguin and aint letting that happen again.

Now I gotta wait a whole winter to give it a shot! Maybe I'll be itchin so bad to test it I might actually get out on the ice this year maybe!

 

[balapickerel]

this is the worst time of the year for me because i have to put all of my fishing stuff away. at least i can still make lures and tie flies all winter.

 

[ec1]

meh, i am officially suffering some withdrawal syndromes LOL.

16 days without being by the lake and counting. and from the looks of it, i've got to wait until hopefully next april?

HOPEFULLY, everything will thaw out early this year, MARCH SOFTWATER SEASON !!!!!!

 

[jaimela]

Why don't any of you do any ice fishing over the winter or do you?

 

[balapickerel]

there's a small walleye pond near my house that i could try ice fishing on but it hasn't frozen yet

 

[YAWN]

"Why don't any of you do any ice fishing over the winter or do you?"

I wasn't born here and ice just doesn't seem natural to me so it's all psychological I just never feel safe on the ice, I hear too many stories of people ever year going out and not returning so I stick to soccer in the winter and fishing in the warmer months.

Besides the way I spend coin on fishing gear it's prob best I take 1/2 a year off hahaha.

 

[balapickerel]

i also can't get over the thought of the ice giving out and me falling through.

 

[jaimela]

The thought of ice fishing seems a little scary. I guess you would have to decide how badly you want to fish in the winter months. A die hard would fish anytime of the year and under any conditions.

 

[openfire]

i also can't get over the thought of the ice giving out and me falling through.

That reminds me... I went ice fishing at Kamaniskeg Lake the winter before last. We drove a pick-up truck across the lake to our hut. (The guy who took us out was a local guy who maintains one of my friends' cottage over the winter.) So, as we start driving out across the ice, the guy says "keep your door open just in case the truck goes through the ice so you can jump out fast". I freaked before he said "just Kidding".

Exactly one year later, almost to the day (last winter) I'm listening to the news on the radio and I hear about 3 teenagers who went through the ice in a pick-up truck and died... at Kamaniskeg Lake. Same spot.

 

[balapickerel]

in alot of areas the township will anounce when and where the ice is safe.

 

[frozenfire]

I laughed at the first part, and when I got to the second part... it wasn't so funny anymore.

I am sure that the ice thickness was different between the two years and the teens were out on thinner ice.

I've never been ice fishing, so who knows... maybe it is actually by chance and you may end up at a spot on the lake that is thinner than everywhere else...

That reminds me... I went ice fishing at Kamaniskeg Lake the winter before last. We drove a pick-up truck across the lake to our hut. (The guy who took us out was a local guy who maintains one of my friends' cottage over the winter.) So, as we start driving out across the ice, the guy says "keep your door open just in case the truck goes through the ice so you can jump out fast". I freaked before he said "just Kidding".

Exactly one year later, almost to the day (last winter) I'm listening to the news on the radio and I hear about 3 teenagers who went through the ice in a pick-up truck and died... at Kamaniskeg Lake. Same spot.

 

[balapickerel]

i was skating on the creek that runs through my friends back yard and i fell through, luckilly the water was only waste deep. also the teenagers falling through might have had something to do with the fact that they were in a heavy pickup truck and not just a light plastic hut.

 

[YAWN]

balapickerel no offence bud but anywhere u know a current exists get the heck off the ice. Especially a creek/river it never freeze thick.

 

[balapickerel]

the ice was actually almost two feet thick every where else, it was just this one spot that had weeds in it.
by the way, the creek is actually the humber river, the very begining of it before it joins up with other water sources, at this section it's just runoff from lake wilcox.