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Does anyone else worry . . .


Steve Foss

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. . . that when fishing first ice in shelter with a Buddy heater on the ice you are weakening the ice so much (you know how that puddle always forms on the ice in front of the heater) that it'll break on you?

I'm often on 3-4 inches of ice to start the season, and it's always given me pause.

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I have a DynaGlo, an 8-year-old Menards-bought knockoff of the smaller Budder heater. Puts out 8,000 btus. As the puddle in front of it gets deeper and wider on 3 inches of ice, I imagine the ice cracking and me and the whole shelter kissing the world goodbye. crazy

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On early ice, I'm watching pike tip-ups all day and switching to walleyes for the last hour or two. So I usually just move the Otter over 10 feet or so when the puddle gets wide/deep, and make sure I pull it over to a fresh spot before drilling holes for the evening 'eye bite.

So it's not really a problem.

I just wondered if any of you guys had the same strange thoughts I sometimes get out on the ice. crazycrazy

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i carry a 2' by 2' piece of 1/4 in plywood to put in front of the heater so thar doesnt happen. it also gets real slippery with all of that water. almost fell a couple of times. i also have pieces to put under my feet when im sitting, less slippery and keeps my feet off the ice.

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A few years ago the puddle on 2 inches on LOW sure got me nervous. Enough so we retreated back the safety of 5 inches. It was a neat feeling to be fishing on ice that was open water the day before. Will I do it again? NO.

One year took the wheeled house out with about 5 inches. Left for LOW and had my brother and a couple friends watch over the house. With a full hundred pounder they cranked it up and fished for a few days. It got warm and there was 3 inches of ice under the house. Luckily an old friend from school pulled the house to better ice with his atv. If left how it was the house would have gone down. That was a 15K BTU turned way up. With free propane and the run of the place my brother wanted to fish in 80 degree heat. Will I ever let my brother look after the house? NO.

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The only time I was really scared is one evening out on 4 inches of ice it started raining. It didn't take long before the water on top of the ice seemed thicker then the ice. Not sure if it actually weakened the ice, but I didn't stick around to find out.

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Man that ice looks to thin for my likings! I'ld be affraid to drop the thermos thinking it would go through. As for the puddle just think...if you have 1/2" of water that was probably almost an inch worth of ice!

That spear hole still freaks me out!

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I'm alot like stifler I spear and I start out with 3 inches of ice under me last year I couldnt leave my perm in one spot because the water kept comming up so I would mark the hole with branches and move the houseand the next day move it back over the same hole or sometimes cut a new hole I think I only did that once. it was only like that for a couple of days then I didn't have any problems.

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