Fishing high wind etiquette?

[Ringtailhunter]

Just wondering about etiquette when the wind is blowing so hard. If I'm sitting in my permy and a couple of fellas blow by in their portable am I required to provide assistance or just wave?

[Pooh]

I'd wave.. Then hollar "hold on tight" as they cruise on by. Wait 10 minutes then offer a helping hand.

[GatorBait]

I've been "that" guy. I would have appreciated any assistance especially seeing my sunflower was going right with me, but I was on the lake alone, so I had to manage it. As an outdoorsman, I would hope other outdoor enthusiast's would go out of their way to help people in need in a situation like this. It's not that you "need" to or are "obligated" to help, but I can't find a reason "not" to help someone.

[lakeshoremunster]

If they were blowing right by me and I saw that they werent able to handle it and I wasnt reeling in a fish I would run over and help them.

[Capt. H (Ret.)]

Isn't helping one another what it's all about?????????

[mww24]

as long as your not putting yourself in danger of injury or worse I think you should help.

[Hardyboy]

Seriously this is a NO BRAINER!!!!! You go help them and fast that could be a serious situation ending in serious injury. Theres a good chance that someday your gonna be the one that needs help and your probably not going to want to hear hold on while i catch this fish as your arm is breaking or ankle is breaking. This touches a nerve with me as i see tooooo often in society today that no one cares about anyone but themselves. Its not about be a requirement its about doing the right thing.

[NKLCOLT1911]

Just wondering about etiquette when the wind is blowing so hard. If I'm sitting in my permy and a couple of fellas blow by in their portable am I required to provide assistance or just wave?

this might be a dumb question but shouldnt they have anchored the house done if it was blowing hard.but to anwser the question without a doubt go and help you never know you may gain a life long fishing buddie.

[mtbucket]

If you are not going to help them, you should at least take a video of it and post it here.

Just kidding, of course. I would always help if possible, and wish I had a video of it.

[HaRdWaTeR jUnKy]

now thats funny right there! but the laughs aside if it was me blowing across the lake i would take all the help i could get, and if i was the one watching out of my big house i would help them anyway i could and invite them in afterwards!

[hookncook]

Few weeks ago, a couple of kids (16-20) was fishing in a hub shack. Wind came and picked up the shack, leaving them sitting with a huge [PoorWordUsage] look.

I had cleats on and quickly grabbed the shack and brought it back to them.

Though it was funny for a second or two, I couldn't live with myself to watch them slip and slide across glare ice, and or falling to recover their kite version of a hub shack.

It was a pleasure to give the boys some advise on better ways to secure their shack and help them out.

[morepower02]

Few weeks ago, a couple of kids (16-20) was fishing in a hub shack. Wind came and picked up the shack, leaving them sitting with a huge [PoorWordUsage] look.

I had cleats on and quickly grabbed the shack and brought it back to them.

Though it was funny for a second or two, I couldn't live with myself to watch them slip and slide across glare ice, and or falling to recover their kite version of a hub shack.

It was a pleasure to give the boys some advise on better ways to secure their shack and help them out.

That's what it's all about. Offering to help in a situation like that is the way it should be. A little while back I noticed a guy that couldn't get his auger started so I drilled him some holes. It made him happy that someone was willing to help.

[mainbutter]

Well, since I'm the kind of guy who sees someone barely miss their bus in Minneapolis, pulls over and offers them a ride ahead to catch it.. you can guess how I'd respond in that situation.

[OnAFly]

I would think that most people would help anyone out on the ice. Weather it's helping chase down a popup, drilling a few holes for the guy with a dead auger or calling 911 if someone goes through, you just do it cause you never know when you'll need it too.

[jwmiller33]

I'm a firm believer in karma. Treat others as you would like to be treated. I was fishing on LOTW over new years and a couple guys got their car stuck in a snow drift 20 yards from my where my portable was set up (not to mention there was howling 30-40 mph winds all day). I sat in my portable and watched them get stuck, then I saw them get out of their car in jeans and a light jacket and try to dig themselves out (they were driving out to a Riverbend house). Being that I was fully geared up with an ice armor suit, flannel and long underwear, I immediately went and helped dig these guys out of the snow bank. The reason I helped out is because I would want someone else to do the same thing if I was the guy stuck in the snowbank.

[mww24]

Oh yeah. I don't know how many times I've helped guys stuck on the lake or at the access. I've been stuck on tonka when I had a 2 wheel drive truck and couldn't get up the access. first guy that saw me came and hooked me up and pulled me up the access. I had a guy drive me to my truck on rush with his wheeler after my kid stepped in a hole. So I always try and help out if I can. Never know when you'll be the one needing help.

[Stick in Mud]

Were the fish biting?!?

In all seriousness, I've been the guy windsurfing. If I'm alone, I'll take all the help I can get at that point if it looks like things are getting out of control. And if I'm sliding across the ice out of control, then things are probably getting out of control.

[Knoc]

Easy. Put yourself in their shoes. If the tables were turned, wouldnt you like a extra helping hand?

[chad austin]

Last year on a local lake I was stuck with my wheel house in tow going off the lake just before dark. I was half on the road and half off as the ruts had threw me into the deeper snow along side the road and kind of jack knifed me. I had been trying to get out for about 15 minutes when a truck blew past me, having to drive off road to get around me.

Fast forward to the following Saturday and my brother and I are at the same lake when we hear a constant roar of dual exhaust about mid day. I look out the window and it's the same truck that blew past me last week when it was just me and my 12 year old son. So I hop in the truck and go pull him out as I would with anyone, I did remind him that he drove right past me and my son the previous week. About 2 weeks after I pulled him out I seen him jump starting another truck when he was leaving the lake for the night.

Growing up I was always told, you can judge a mans character by what he is willing to do for another man who can do nothing for him.

[Grum]

Growing up I was always told, you can judge a mans character by what he is willing to do for another man who can do nothing for him.

Great advice and great story. It is easy in this fast paced society to react negatively to a situation from bad past experiences, but to rise above it and act positively is extraordinary. My hats off to all of you who have chosen this path. Even though you would never ask, Thank You.

[Crappiechopper]

Then ask yourself, would I need help when my permanent is frozen in and I'm chopping ice like a snow cone machine to get it out. Or when the tongue of my $20,000 fishing palace breaks and I need to get it off the lake before I'm fined (seen it). Seems alot easier to me to just help stop something from blowing away, like I did last night.

[Supercrew]

Debris..... shoot video.... snicker.... then run like hell to grab an ankle sticking out of the fishhouse, pull out your anchors, strap em down... flash your superhero suit and return to your portable cuz you got a bite.....

[dangnear]

I would help in any way possiable , then suggest the book "ICE FISHING FOR DUMMYS"

[Ringtailhunter]

I've always helped out when I can. This was sorta a tongue in cheek post.

Two years ago my son and I had a knock at the door of the fish house. When I opened the door there was a guy standing there in shorts and sandals. Keep in mind there was about a good foot of the crunchy snow on the lake. Well it seems this guy came out in a Toyota car to just drive around and see what's happening and got stuck in the middle of the lake. There wasn't much I could do because at the time I only had a car, offered to call him a tow, but he turned around and left.

Same year me and a buddy are watching a couple of kids driving a 2 wheel drive pick up, doing doughnuts they got stuck. My buddy gets in his truck and pulls them out to the plowed road. They hit the gas, spinning the wheels and immediately get stuck again. My buddy walks over and hands them a shovel.

[mrfish1991]

I've been the guy chasing a portable across the ice before, its not fun at all. I always appreciate help and always give help when possible. I've had some of my best karma experiences out on the ice.

I've had holes drilled for me by another fisherman because he saw that I was using a hand auger, but on the other hand I've cut holes with my hand auger for people who ran out of gas/dull blades/bum auger ect.

If I see someone with a kid out there and they aren't catching anything and I am, I try to help them get on the fish in any way I can.