Funniest thing youve seen on the ice!

[whitetips]

Have seen this many times on bald eagle in the 80's, in fact it made me wonder whether insurance should be required, well it was blowing 40 mph out of NW as we watch perms move slowely off there spots and as they blew to a patch of snow they would flip on there side, and if not well built they fell apart at that point, as we moved out of the way of another drifter I look over on the east shore and there is 2 guys chasing an otter as its tumbling end or end at 40 mph and their only doing 5mph try to catch it. Thats why the shelter anchors were invented. We are in the same situation with a lack of snow.

[Yellow Dog]

For me, it's got to be last year at the Brainerd Ice Tourney. Whenever anybody caught a fish, they took off at a full sprint for the weigh in--only to wipe out about about 15 times. Soon the crowd got into it and start chanting, "Go-go-go" It looked like a giant crappie flop on the ice. My wife, laughing with tears in her eyes, turned to me and said, "Thanks for buying me ice spikes!"

[dwag70]

I was Fishing in my portable next to my nephews permant house. The were doing quite well and I was not. As they are catching there fish and putting them outside to freeze on the ice a ermine or weasel was running up and taking their fish. Got away with three crappies and a small northern. finally told them and they thought it was me until I should them the tracks in the snow. Got a good laugh at that little thing dragging it's catch away and when they accused me and I could have stopped it but figure if it was smart enough to get the fish he deserved to make it through the winter.

[juggs]

A Go Devil and a scratcher are similar but two different things. A scratcher is actually made for riding on top of the ice. I don't think it could move in open water because the means of propulsion is a tooted wheel that grabs the ice. Pretty ingenious. It does resemble a Go Devil though.

[Nutty Fisherman]

I have a picture of a scracher but I don't know how to put it in the forum. I will email it to somebody if they want to post it. email me at [email protected] and I will send it to you to post.

[sledcrazy]

Well back when we were young and dumb my cousin and I thought it would be funny to go out at night on our three wheelrs and a chain and move Ice houses around and watch the next day while all the fisherman were looking at there ice houses wondering how they turn around. Well we did this for a couple weekends,then after our parents were talking about people out there wondering who is turning these houses around or moving them 25 yards or so well I got a little worried and decided not to particpate in it. But I did sit by and watch him and a couple friends continue the sport of fish house moving. Some peopel around were happy since they got better holes then they had while others were not so happy with what they had. Well one night we all headed out there 3 wheelers chains and an ice pick to break them lose. Well I stopped short about 20 yards from there first house. They went over there hooked up on it and started to move it when the door flew open. Inside was 2 sheriff deputy's waiting for the Ice House Moving Bandits. Well the look on my cousins and friends face were the funniest thing one could ever ask to see. Well even though I was not part of the moving that night I still was punished by the law that winter. We were automatically given a job by the County of becoming the official Ice House movers for anybody on the lake that year. We must have moved 200 houses around. Every weekend we sat at the bait shop and waited for orders from fisherman to move there houses. On the good side some of the tips were good.

But those were the old days and now I look back and think wow what a bunch of arses we were.

[psegriz]

Did the county make you drill holes for them too?

[SnakeRiver]

Ingenious contraption. Good use for an old jon boat.

[JollyT]

The people who used those scratchers were mostly trappers. Another wild thing was friends of mine who used to fish the Dresbach dam in the winter. Push the flat out to the edge of the ice, drop the motor in and go out. Coming back in was the wild part, come in fast and pop the boat up onto the ice! I watched people do this, but I always worried about fliping over. Too cold in that water!

Another wild thing I saw down there was when they were ripraping some new island on the Lake side of the dam. They drove the dump trucks onto the lake and dumped the rock. The ice melt deposited the rock in the spring. When those truck would go by 100 yards away the water would shoot out of your holes 6" or a foot!

[MNmikew]

Another one for the young and dumb category. Late 80's, had a perm. house on metro lake.One night, someone brought out some M-80s so we'd figgure we'd try a few out. So, like (Contact US Regarding This Word), we light one up and drop er down one of the holes. We were all mezmorised watching the thing slowly tumble down the hole with its little fuse burning away. Then for some unknown reason we all (four of us) turned away just before she blew. Well, the water geyser shooting out of the hole had enough force to break a plywood shelve above said hole in half, drenched all four of us down to our underwear and turned the fishhouse into an instant sauna since naturally the wood stove was right next to the geyser hole. The look of four very wet guys bailing out the door with steam pouring out must have been quite the picture. Needless to say we didnt catch any more fish that night.

[Matchman]

There are very few things funnier than watching your fishing partner haul a$$ out of the house (without his spikes on, of course) to go after a flag. Invariably, he ends up parallel to the ice and lands with a thud and ends up covered in whatever beverage he was running with. The result: severe pain in his back and the hysterical laughter of "friends". Good times.

Remember: its funny until someone gets hurt. Then its REALLY funny!

[StrosLit31]

a few years ago I was on orchard lake in lakeville fishing on a warm day about 40-50 degrees. and there were two people out there with there summer fishing rods standing 6ft away from the ice hole jigging. It must of been there first time on the ice.

another time i was sitting in the portable while my buddy was getting something outside and it was pretty windy that day and i started moving with the house and then i yelled at my buddy to grab the house. well he grabbed the rope attached to the house, then we got blown across the entire lake. I sat in the house while my buddy dragged and rolled on the ice trying to stop the house. i got a kick out of that one. my buddy was not too impressed.

[Quickstrike]

funniest thing i've ever seen was a guy i know get his foot stuck down a hole with over 2 feet of ice on the lake. we still haven't figured out how he did it but he managed to get a size 13 boot along with his whole leg down a 8" hole. after about 15 minutes he was forced to sacrafice his boot the the lake and was in for a very cold snowmobile ride home. On a side note, this same individual managed to cut off his kneecap with a chainsaw and back into a cop car that had pulled him over all within the same year of the icehole incident.

[Neighbor]

One time, in band camp....

[pikerliker]

Hey Quickstike, is this guy still alive? Ever hear of the Darwin awards? I think we have a candidate!!

~piker

[setterguy]

About three years ago, we had 6 guys packed into a 4 man permanent out on Green Lake in Chisago. Most of the guys weren't big fishermen just out for a night of talk'n and a few beers. All of a sudden one guy gets up and runs out the door, I look over and see the propane line running into the house is on fire, I yelled to the other guys and headed for the door. Now the guy in the back is about 325 pounds and the guy next to him is about 160. I get out of the house and am standing there watching the other four guys stumble and run out of the house when all of a sudden the skinny guy comes flying out of the house and lands face first into a big puddle of water that had formed right outside the door, the big guy absolutely ran him over in his attempt to escape the inferno. It was a 10000 dollar moment if someone would have had a video camera. It turned out to be nothing serious with the propane line, and we ended up catching a few fish that night.

[icehousebob]

Was fishing MilleLacs a while back when I noticed some activity in a nearby house. It was a 6x8 permanent and when a tip-up flag went, the door opened and people started coming out. There had been eight people in that house. It reminded me of a circus clown car. After they missed the fish, they all piled back in. They all had to be really good friends and/or slightly kinky.

[Shawnny B]

Well, being the time of year and everyone getting the itch for fishing, I was thinking about this time last year when we saw a guy driving out on the channel on Chisago lake and then his truck went threw, I know its not funny but Hey every time I see the picture I just have to smirk a lil because of his "gotta" be the first one driving. If you want to see the picture I think Gander Mnt in Forest lake still has it on their brag board in the front of the store by the registers!

Shawn