HARD WATER MEMORIES

[holdemtwice]

  I thought it would be fun to share your most memorable ice  fishing story.  be it funny  or sad   or the big one  or small.
i hope you all know it is going to  be in the 90's  and i thought a little hard water talk may help all of us out and feel a little cooler. 



HT     :: :: ::

[holdemtwice]

 I HAVE ONLY BEEN TWICE. so all i have is two  storyand i already posted one .
    It was x-mas  of 2002 . My family and i traveled here from illinois for the holidays . My brother in-law asked me if i wanted to go ice fishing. I said  sure . So off we went .We headed  up to breezy point  were his business partner had been for a week already. Anyway  we headed out during the day  to use some tip ups . We drilled the  holes  set the rigs  and waited. The first one starting wagging the flag  bout an hour after we set it up .  Then the other flags started wagging . We had four sets   set up.  We missed several  and they landed a few crappie and an eye . Well ....... What makes this story so good is wht happened .

  It was warm . Way above normal. We looked off in the distance   and the shore disapeared  . Before we knew it  we were in the thickest fog i have ever been in. What makes it bad   is  that  folks on pelican  spear, as well , thru the ice and if all of you are not fimiliar with this style  they  cut very large holes in the ice . Well we had to get back to the cabin  without falling into  one of the spear holes  . The only refrence we had  was the tracks  from our sled  in the snow. Talk about a trying hour and a half  of walking. Well we made it back  and had some lasting memories  of the fog.




  HT

[icebanger]

well my last ice memory is when i got to spend the day on the ice with our own woodchuck and iceman we started the day off at woodchucks secret crappie hole and didn't catch any so we moved to a spot i know and man did woodchuck and iceman catch the crappies i got i think 3 ..the guide got out fished but it was a great day 80 degs out we got 3 limits and best of all i got to spend the day with two new friends.....

[GuideGirlsMom]

Hey banger---the hard water will be back be for LONG!!! ; It is going to fast--summer--that is and so the white stuff will be here again!!!   GGM

[iceman]

Thank God GG won't be long now !

[WoodChuck]

  HOT, HOT,AND HHHOOOTTTTTTTTT! man my toes are roasting and cant stand to long in one spot!  we need ice yesterday !! PLEASE BRING IT ON .

                                     lets go fishin banger !

                                               wc

[iceman]

Don't know where to start being i ice  :: all over the state but here it goes any ways .. ::cheers::

it was on mille lacs last winter darning the  TWP that a few from Ice Team put on every year ..

was fishing on the south half of the lake looking for a few eyes or perch which ever would be biting i realy didn't care as long i was with friends ..

with the help of Capt Kev and his soon to be this nice eye was released back into mille lacs with out any farther due
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yep it was my biggest so far that winter sure i have had bigger but i can't remember that far back  ::


then there was the trip like  Ice Banger had wrote about yes that was another great trip and hope to do it again some time..

[orsbar]

just moved to minnesota last fall and with the new job and lack of equipment we never made it on the ice ::

 but heres a nice pic. of mille lacs west side of the lake

orson