You might be an ice fisherman if.......

[BronzeBrother]

If you are dreaming about ice fishing and wake up with your arm over the side of the bed jigging an imaginary ice rod

[BronzeBrother]

Also... A restroom on the ice is nothing more then an open car door...

[Chef]

1. Feel guilty surfing this web site and think about it when you're NOT!

2. Believe you'll catch some every time you pack your stuff to head out.

3. Find an extra fiver in your wallet and head to the Jig Isle...

4. Justify driving on the Ice at ANY time.

5. Have a monogrammed Jigging Rod Case

6. Name your Shack something "Catchy"

7. Forget about the last trip you went on when you SWORE you are getting too old for this C@#$(*&*U(*)* and promised yourself you are DONE!!!!

[Slabasaurus]

if you wish for below freezing temps... in the middle of a MN Heatwave in Feb.

[PlagueWielder]

you've installed a trolling motor on your flipover.

[highlife4me]

... you sit on a frozen sheet of ice in front of a hole you drilled in it and hope some food swims by.

[Crm7290]

Im with you on that one Slabasarus. I hate this warm weather.

[cold one sd]

if you can sit on the ice fishing without watching sports on TV or listening to them on the radio.

[FBMH]

if your me and sit on the ice with 20mph winds and -10 degree temps

[looneyducer]

when you call something a Do-Jigger, you're being specific.

[croixflats]

If snotcycles go unnoticed.

[reinhard1]

if you own an overabudance of short rods vs long rods. good luck.

[Ringtailhunter]

If you can sit next to a nine year old boy for five hours staight in the front seat of your fishing car watching those tip ups, listening to his hairbrained, halfbaked schemes for hunting and fishing. Not to mention the what would you do if...questions, constantly stirring the minnow bucket, getting hooks stuck, minnows down the heater vents, rolling windows up and down.......

And of course making plans to fish again tomorrow with the best fishing buddy I could ever want...my boy.

[MN BassFisher]

If you have flies cruising around your house in the middle of winter because your euro's have hatched. Oops.

[curtistodd]

You just came home from 3 different tackle shops with $30 in jigging spoons because you heard there were good sales.

[Jospeh]

If you and your buddy are on a 20 hour bender only to wake up with the bobbers gone, with no fish

[Boar]

I love how all of these are true life examples like my favorite of going shopping at wallmart with the wife an you tell her your going to bathroom but you head to the fishing isle an pick up a few things an hide them in the cart an she dont find out tell your home an shes reading thru the reciept.

[sweatervest76]

Yep, just sitting in the perm parked in the shed and open the hole covers and pretend to jig on the cement floor.

Always looking on HSO-Classifieds for ice houses even though you don't need one.

Once November 1st rolls around, you're glued to the weather sites checking overnight lows, hoping the next site has even lower temps

Driving by your favorite lake every day once it starts getting cold just to see if it's locked up yet!

[chad austin]

If your wheel house is bigger than your storage shed in your back yard........You might be an ice fisherman

If that same wheel house is worth more than the vehicle you use to pull it to your favorite fishing hole........You might be an ice fisherman

If you spend enough time in the fish house without a shower and use a slab crappie for deodorant, and it actually masks your B.O. for the better........You might be an ice fisherman

Chad Austin

[My_Key]

The wallpaper on your computer is a sunrise/sunset out on the ice.

The wallpaper on your cell phone is your flasher and a hole in the ice.

[croixflats]

When you go to Fleet Farm you always go to the fishing section first and cant leave without purchasing ice gear even though you only went there for plumbing supplies. Could have gone to Menards around the corner, where is the fun in that.

[tonykummrow]

when you fill the box of your truck with snow before heading to the lake cus there is no snow out there to bank your house with.

[bullhead master]

Once November 1st rolls around, you're glued to the weather sites checking overnight lows, hoping the next site has even lower temps

Driving by your favorite lake every day once it starts getting cold just to see if it's locked up yet!

LOL so true!!

[crappiegetter]

When you have a bad morning fishing an ice tourney and try to better the day by going elsewhere to catch a fish only to get skunked again then slip while loading the ice house break two fingers and wonder how this will affect your jigging hand and wonder if you can still feel a lite bite

[GotALunker]

if 1 50 ct of waxworms a day isn't enough

if hard water season starts in late November ends in late march