Funniest thing youve seen on the ice!

[Shawnny B]

I was reading the posts about the modifications of your portables for your lil races, Was wondering what was your favorite or funniest thing youve seen on the ice out there.

Mine would have to be last year when the wind was whipping around at about 30 mph and we were attempting to set up our portables, I have a lil ol Clam that I teathered to the Truck and my friends had the 6 hole big stand up clam and they didnt think it would go anywhere, the "lil"guy was inside trying to keep it from moving while the "big" guy was out shoveling the snow up against it and a gust of wind came whipping up and blew the guy down the lake about a hundred yards or so! Needless to say the "lil" guy didnt think it was sooooo funny seeing as to how cold it was out and it was one of his first times out. The other instance is when we were out and saw a portable glidding freelessly across the lake with a Big orange blob chasing it across Chisago Lake ~! That made the bad day of fishing worthwhile!

Shawnny B

[hanson]

Good story! High winds and portable houses can provide lots of humor to those who are already hunkered down.

[Maximum12]

Several years ago, 97 or 98 or thereabouts, went up to Gull Lake for the ice fishing contest with a couple of buddies. As luck would have it, we set up right next to a bunch of Russian exchange students who were, to put it mildly, drunk by the time the noon cannon went off. Shortly after that they unfurled a big old sickle-and-hammer flag (probably about 6' x 6'), planted the pole in the ice, removed their coats & shirts, & proceeded to have a wrestling contest right there on the ice.

And since we didn't catch anything, it was the high point of the contest for us.

[IceHawk]

A guy pulling his fish trap all the way across Lake Minnewaska with a rideing lawn mower. A very smart idea just brought a good laugh to me.

[Gus]

Forest lake ice fising tourney, I watched a few guys strike up a football game on ice. One guy who was running went right through some poor other guys tip up. Smashed tipup and a wet foot. I felt bad for the guy who owned the tipup, but I learned that the contest is just a circus and I haven't been back since.

[Ole1855]

This isn't necessarily funny, but strange just the same. Quite a few years ago, mid 80's I think, we put the perms out on Mille Lacs near Myr Mar. It started to rain!!! Yes rain, we had white caps on top of the ice!! Portables floating by in the waves and ice so slick you better be hanging onto something heavy or you slid away in the wind.

Ole

[The Grebe]

Among other things, seen a guys big ice auger bind up and spin him like a top!

Seen my nephew take off across the glare ice on lake Koronis, during a high wind, toward open water! When I caught up to him, he was on his hands and knees inside the house and looked like he had just ate 6 Jalapenos!

My younger brother, who was quite drunk at the time, went to visit some other anglers up on lake Osakis one time and they must not have enjoyed the visit....he came back covered in long speggetti and sauce!

[efgh]

When I was spearfishing on winnie about 10 years ago on Bowens flats, I decided to take a walk one afternoon, I noticed a yellow rope between two fishouses that were about 50 feet apart, when I got closer I noticed a fifth of peppermint snops laying on the ice by one house, had to ask what the deal was because I knew both guys, answer, we are sharing the last bottle, when he wants a drink he pulls the bottle over to his house and when I need one I pull it back, saves lots of walking. lazy fishermen.

[Nutty Fisherman]

efgh: Ilike that one will have to try that sometime.

[SCCO9803]

Funniest thing I've seen on the ice was when a buddy of mine was carrying out a wall for the permanent ice house and he slipped. When he slipped his feet went staright up and he was completely flat and parallel with the ice, holding a 4' X 6' wall to the ice house accross his chest. Everything was in "slow motion, cartoon speed" as he slammed down on the ice and through the wall into the air. You can imagine what happens next. The 4' X 6' plywood wall comes crashing down right on top of him and all you see is the ice house wall with him pinned beneath it. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, because it was the funniest thing ever.

One other funny moment was when my buddy was whipping donuts in his cousins truck, on the ice. Not a good idea when his cousin was watching! His cousin came flying accross the ice and, let's just say "Swingin' Freely in Ely" was born.

[Dan Thiem]

One nite during early ice it was freezing rain and my buddy decides to pretend to drive his truck down the boat ramp. Well it was pretty slick and instead of stopping at the edge he slid right down the ramp and onto the lake. His eyes were as big as saucers.

[Sportland_Bait]

About ten years ago I was fishing the Gull Lake Ice Fishing Contest. Next to where Iwas fishing was a group of guys fishing, drinking and just having a good time. One of the guys in their group went to the porta-potty to relieve himself. When he came back he noticed his bobber was down. So he grabbed his rod and reel, gave it a bigg hook set and started fighting it to the top. He really played it great, didn't horse it as it swam side to side around the hole. He could tell it was a nice fish, possibly a truck winner. He pulled it up through the hole and everyone broke into laughter. While he was gone his buddies tied an ice scoop to the end of his line. I swear he was going to kill them. It was a great prank!

Jason Erlandson

[cold one sd]

The funniest one I ever saw was a guy that made his electric auger from a steel plate with bycycle handle bar with a switch. He used a starter from an old Chrysler and it was hooked up direct drive. When he hit the switch, he completely dissapeared in a cloud of ice chips. When the auger went through the ice and hit water------- Lets just say he spent a lot of time in his pickup trying to dry off when he could have been fishing!!

[FreeFlySpy]

I took the wife ice fishing one day next to shany town. She asked me where was the best place to relieve herself. I gave her the 5 gallon bucket and said sit in the back bed of my truck. After she finished 4 guys came out of the shanty next to us and gave her a standing ovation.

[The Grebe]

Remembered another one...I worked in a grain elevator for years, Cargill to be exact. We had a little boilerman named Louie, a pretty small fella, a tinkerer.

He took a 12 inch section of old grain auger, about 4 feet long and made an ice drill out of it.

I can't remember what kind of motor he had on it, maybe a 6 horse off a lawnmower or something, cause that danged thing seemed like it weighed about 200 pounds!

He took it out to whitebear, found a good looking spot, lit the fuse and that big old homemade auger just about killed him!

That sucker roared to life, bit in, did'nt idle down and whipped him all over the place, slamming into his ribs and causing him to wind up missing a week of work!

[waligators]

Once I saw a farmer that lives right on the lake i was fishing take his tractor out there and pull his kids behind in in a tube. Pretty funny but the kicker is that after he got done pulling them around he would get going as fast as he could and turn the wheel and lock up the brakes and do 360's for about 50 yards down the lake.

[Ed Carlson]

One thing sticks out in my mind over all the crazy dump I have seen on the ice, this one I will never forget.

Driving around on a lake in NE SD looking for a spot passed on to me as a good night bite. I passed a few shacks and then I see a guy with his truck running, his headlights on him, and he is hunched over with his head half way down the door of a big fancy new ice palace.

He was waving at me with one arm like he wanted me to pull up, so I did.

So I jump out and he is still hunched over with his head touching the door. I get closer and he is mumbling something unintelligible. Something like "Pelp-Munt-da-dock-in-Na-moor-tuck-on-thong" but heck who knows what he really said?

Then I see what all the fuss was about. This dude had his lower lip and tongue stuck to the dam paddle lock and hasp on the door of his fish house. He had frozen drool down the door and his coat collar, he was a real sight.

What do ya do...laugh right..couldn't help it. Then I took a bit of my coffee from my thermos and poured it down his tongue and face to get him loose. It was hot, but he did not appear to care much at the time.

When I got the guy loose I had to ask.."What ta hell?"

He said his lock was froze and he was trying to blow into the Key hole to get it to thaw when he stumbled and his face stuck to the lock and hasp on the door. He managed to get half of his face loose but the rest was too painful to pry loose so he sat there and panted on it trying to thaw himself free. About then I stumbled by so he waves me over to help. (I think if it were me I would have tore it loose somehow before anyone seen me, no matter what!)

I have to add he was more then a little bit "In Da Bag"..loose as a goose you might say. I laughed so hard all the while I almost [PoorWordUsage]ed myself. Sorry..I just couldn't help myself.

The whole deal didn't phase him in the least really. We got his lock open and he stumbled in his hut, and off I went on my happy way.

I now truly know what a Rednecks on ice must look like.

[smalls]

Our North Dakota wind is somewhat legendary. Some of our prairie lakes have no cover around the lakes at all to serve as a wind break.

On one such windy day on Devils Lake several years ago, we were trying to locate early season perch. The ice was still a little too thin to drive on, so everyone was pulling their sleds out by hand or with an ATV. As we set up, we kept having the problem of the house shifting around on the snowless ice in the wind. If one guy wasn't sitting in the house, it would act more like a sail boat.

After struggling with the wind for a bit, we finally settled down to do some fishing. It was windy enough that conversation between our two portables was nearly impossible, as hearing one another was very difficult.

We then heard a curdling scream, all of us heard it and we flipped open our houses. Looking around we saw a guy about 150 yards upwind of us hanging halfway out of his Clam, chest and arms sprawled out on the ice as his portable picked up speed across the lake. His fishing partner, who had stepped out of the house, tried to run across the ice to catch his partner and his portable. Not only could he not gain ground on the icehouse turned catamaran, he was losing ground quite quickly.

As the house effortlessly slid across the ice, you could see several lures bouncing across the ice behind the house, presumably still attached to rods inside.

It took another fisherman that had an ATV to speed across the ice and recover the poor guy (who NEVER climbed in the house, he sprawled his body on the ground the WHOLE ride). I don't know how fast that portable was going, but in all he was swept around 400 yards across the lake.

[Snag]

I was fifteen at the time and my new neighbor came fishing me and my friends after school on Wayzata Bay. This guys Mom wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree, nor the second brightest etc. They had two cars, and one was a Jeep. She came to pick us up in her Porsche. It took six of us to get it back on dry ground.

[silveroddo]

The phraise " it happened at eelpout" ussually enters into most of the funnyiest things I've seen on ice.

Last year we had a buddy go to town and leave his rattle reels down and lock the house up, while he was gone someone in out house somehow got ahold of is line, when he got back he noticed it was gone and "set the hook" this was the cue to start fighting him, they tied the line to a chair in the house then would sit and play with a few feet of slack, meanwhile me and another guy are in his house breathing "50" muskie" and "dont screw this up", about 5 minutes into the ordeal the guys in my house lost him when trying to tie a can of budlight to his line. He got this really sick look on his face untill we couldn't take it anymore and told him what was up, his face went from green to red, but he had to see the humor in it.

[Red]

Three years ago I took my dad and little brother fishing on the Big Pond. My brother wasn't an avid fisherman....a rattle reel went and he was the first to grab it. He cranked up a nice large Pout. He'd never seen one before and didn't know what it was. He reached down picked it up and that Pout wrapped around his arm. He looked at us in fear and was running around the ice house flinging his arm around trying to shake it off. Pout snot was flying all over the place. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

If he hooks a Pout now you'll never see a line get cut so fast.

[walleye_boy]

It may not be funny but it was definitely cool. We were fishing early ice one year and there was no snow on the ice and my clam was in the halfway up position and the wind took it and it went skidding away. Well my buddy ran after it slid on his belly and grabbed it, it was the coolest thing ever!

w_boy

[The Yeti]

Some years back. We were on Mille Lacs and decided to drive in and get a bite to eat. We drove past one of the rental fish houses. We look over, the door flys open, out comes staggering this woman, drunker than a skunk, looks at us, backs up a bit to lean on the house, I'm sure she would have fell right over if she did'nt, and proceeds to whip em down and relieve herself. We were laughing so hard we almost had to pull over.

[juggs]

I posted this shortly after it happened but here goes. A couple winters ago I was fishing a lake at last ice. I hear a lady behind me pulling a small bluegill through the ice, then all of a sudden she gasps as I hear a louder splash and the sound of a good sized fish flopping on ice. I turn around to see a pike that had chased the bluegill all the way up and out of the hole. I had seen pike grab on to smaller fish that were hooked, but this one never got the hook in him. Another funny thing to see on the ice is what they call a "scratcher." The only place I've ever seen them is on the backwaters of the Mississippi River. It's a flat-bottom boat with runners on the bottom and a motor on the back that grabs the ice and propels the boat along. I think they use them mostly when the ice is thin.

[hovermn]

I think that you're refering to a Go Devil. Was the motor attached to a long shaft sticking straight back with a boat like prop at the end? I've never seen one on ice, but my Uncle used to talk of them. I never believed him until I saw a Go Devil going through a beaver dam. I figured if it could do that, it could travel on ice!

On a side note, I was on the ice when Shawwny B saw the portable go flying down the ice in the wind. The only thing that stopped it some few hundred yards away was the point. It hit the bank and wobbled a bit. Funny site!!