A quick "Thank You"!!!

[Neighbor_guy]

I meant to get this posted yesterday but ran out of time.

I actually got out on the lake this past Saturday spending the morning on one lake and the afternoon on another. On both occasions when I left the lake I drove around slow looking for exposed blocks and marked holes. The plan was to take the ax and bust up anything that had been abandoned....

... NOTHING!!! ....

I fished two very popular Isanti County lakes one of them green in color and name and the other right next door. In both cases I found several well marked holes. And in both cases I did not find a single block that had been pulled and left on the ice.

Well done!!! If you fish either of those lakes and lurk, read, or post here on the forum thank you for taking the time to do it right.

[tca12]

I often wondered how blocks of ice wouldn't end up down the hole, but I've never had a permanent house so what happens when a person comes out to move their house and they have their blocks outside of it? The hole is frozen over. I suppose you could chip the blocks out and take the blocks home, but I can't imagine that you'd haul them to your new spot and push them under the ice with the new block you just cut. Busting them up probably is the way to go.

[Dorkfish]

If the hole has a thin layer of ice on it I would break it open and push the blocks in. If it's too thick I generally bring a sledgehammer or as NG said an axe and try and break them down a bit. But the important part is to mark the hole nonetheless

[tca12]

On my way out to the portable I left out overnight on Peltier in Centerville I noticed the big block on the ice that probably was from earlier this week. I made a mental note to break it up on my way off this afternoon since it was maybe 30 yards from the "road". By the time I drove off someone (probably the same person) had cut another hole, speared, and left leaving two big blocks on the ice. At least I could push those two back in the hole and only had to break up the other one with my chisel that was too far from the new hole to move. I wasn't too impressed with the two pencil thick 1 1/2 foot twigs used to mark the hole either so I dragged over a log which was used to mark a hole cut earlier this winter. Shees! At least the hole should freeze up good tonight. I'm calling it a season since I only saw three small fish in eight hours. That's what I get for being in six feet of water with two feet of ice and three feet of weeds!