Ice fishing Questions.

How long does it take you to chop a hole. Big enough to put your boat in ?

Is it worht it ?

Get with the program Newt. We use a chain saw no reason to be chopping holes.

not with the size of your boat

Now it makes sence

Just make the holes big enough for your net.

Trolling is when you walk to the edge of the ice where it meets the open water, you extend you rod out over the ice into the open water and walk back and forth.

The Russians invented a new way...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyzC5d-cgew

that isn't that big my uncle used to run gill nets under the ice

cut a hole and put the Jigger through the hole , this was like a kids sled with runners and floats that was brightly colored and had a cam on it pull on the line and it pulled the cam then let go and let it propelled it's self along under the ice sort of like one of those kids toy cars that you pull back then let go and it runs forward under spring pressure , when your about to run out of cord your partner who has been following the brightly colored sled under the ice cuts a hole for it to come out , then the net is pulled through under the ice with the line from hole to hole.

when the ice was to ruff to use that they cut a hole every so many feet and pushed boards nailed together under the ice with a line till they got to the next hole

they had a bottomless fish house that they pulled with an old snowmobile they could pull the net from in the house then pull the line from the far end and set it again under the ice

That's how they netted crap In the winter on the Madison Lakes.

I think they caught carp also.

LOL

Would trolling be easier, with one of those two man submarines. Ya would want to keep an eye on your ice hole, so it doesn't freeze shut. You could even dress up your vessel to look like a fish!

That would be illegal here in MN. Yellow is the only state authorized color for fishing submarines within state boundaries.

Osky

I always wondered about people who would go out in an artic gale, beat a hole thru 2' of ice to catch 6" yellow perch.
And claim to have fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nDO1i5I7CA


Charlie

Hey Newt....how's the beard growing

My interpretation of the law was that the submarine only had to be yellow, if it was used as a habitation, by multiple, unrelated individuals, in green tinted water.

Keith

biggest mistake most newbies make is not cutting the hole big enough to get the boat backed off the trailer.

Your right KeithC, but the state does limit the yellow submarines here to 4 inhabitants. You can join the inhabitants but can't take up residence.

Osky

Make sure to start the chain saw

Starting the saw makes sence too

Karma, you just perfectly described ice fishing!!!

The biggest problem is keeping the ice from getting mushy after you catch it and cook it.