Ice Fishing Pet Peeve's

[joneshat11]

Early ice and you have a nice red mark right on your jigging rapala and then someone starts pounding on the ice with a chisel to cut open a hole!!!!! The nice red mark is no more!! Please!! Please!!! Use a hand auger for cutting holes during early ice and only use the spud to check for weak ice. This happens every year and of course at prime time of the day!!!

[Seeker of Clayface]

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Talk about Peeing on the ice. Last year I got a $1,000.00 fine for doing just that.

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The CO said $100.00 and inch no Exceptions

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You must be the Peter North of ice fishing.

[FullTilt]

I coudn't believe this one. Last year we were on Winnie fishing out of one of Highbanks's houses. A couple guys were using the ice road and set-up a Fish Trap about 40 yards from us. We talked to them throughout the day, everyone was catching a few fish. Right when the sun starts going down a 3/4 ton pick-up pulling a beautiful wheeled house busts through the snow and sets-up about 10' from the two guys in the Fish Trap. They spent awhile drilling holes and dropping the house. When they're all ready, they pull out the cheap-o, loud as he11, rattle your teeth generator. They put it on the the side of the house next to the guys in the portable, within about 10'. The gentlemen in the Fish Trap stopped by our place on their way out, they said it was so loud they could feel the ice vibrating in their portable. Unbelievable, to paraphrase our great president, "people need to be commonsensicle, that means to have common sense."

[marine_man]

My pet peeve is when someone sets up a fishhouse in the middle, or on the esablished vehicle trail... then they look at you with big eyes as you try and drive around it, busting a new trail around them...

Anyone ever, or ever heard of anyone being cited for peeing on the ice?

[Whopper Stopper]

As a matter of fact yes. The CO in Burnett Co cited at least three that I know for squirting on the ice. He did it last year on wood lake by Grantsburg. I don't know which costs more as far as a fine goes #1 or #2.

WS

[DaveyG]

Dead fish on the ice. Sad and unnecessary.

[Gus]

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Dead fish on the ice. Sad and unnecessary.

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Davey, you hit the nail on the head with that one!

Last winter I found a 5 lb or so pike laying on the ice that someone just decided they didn't want to take home. Just plain lazy and stupid. Many times you see a small pile of crappies or sunnies that probably were not enough to make a meal. LAZY SOB'S just leave them to rot. If you keep them, clean them PERIOD. Save them up in the freezer if you don't get enough or let them go. CPR!

[musky_tail05]

Let's see....How about having a bunch of people who, when they get bored, decide to crank up their radios and bass in their vechicles so loud that all you can hear is boom, boom, boooom for about 3 hours or better? Oh, and then another group of morons decide that they want in on the fun and both of them start having an unofficial constest to see who's radio will go the loudest. Has anyone else had any problems with buffoons like this?

[maj330]

The minimum distance between houses is 10 feet according to the regulations. I don't see how you can argue against that. The lake is open to the public after all. Also, what is the fine for catching a fish, reducing it to possession, then discarding it to die on the ice?

[BradB]

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The minimum distance between houses is 10 feet according to the regulations. I don't see how you can argue against that.

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There is a difference between the legal minimum and following what is right. I would hope that most people would find this distance absurdly small and stay further away--especially when driving vehicles.

[maj330]

I couldn't find a rule about how close you can drill a hole to another house. Would be interesting to try. Have there been any known instances of "ice rage"? There are a lot of reality-challenged people in the world so I'm sure there have been.

[maj330]

I certainly don't want to be on the receiving end of an ice-rager so I won't test any theories. I usually pick up and move if I feel some one is too close. I will rarely fish within 50 yds of some along the bank. I wish more people had similar feelings. Many seem to not care.

[Seeker of Clayface]

I think a few guys got into a brawl on the ice somewhere near St. Cloud last winter. One or two were arrested I believe. I'm not positive it was a encroachment issue however.

[76k20]

I had a guy spouting off words out his car window about me setting up in the road out as he drove around me , I bet he felt like a real puttz when he got around my truck and the road ended at my plow . I was hoping he would get stuck and have to come back and ask for a hand...

[76k20]

Didn't one guy attack another guy with his ice auger or something crazy like that?

[AQUAJOE]

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I had a guy spouting off words out his car window about me setting up in the road out as he drove around me , I bet he felt like a real puttz when he got around my truck and the road ended at my

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Now that is funny!!

[mark n]

I think the plow story is the best so far.

Last year shortly before prime time I had a drunk drive about 500 yards of the beaten path to within 2 feet(at the most) of my portable to roll down his window and ask "Hey buddy is there any fish in this lake?"

All I could say was they were all on the other side. So he drove to the other side of the lake and set up.

So much for getting away from it all for a while.

People who leave garbage in nature are......ufda

[Seeker of Clayface]

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Didn't one guy attack another guy with his ice auger or something crazy like that?

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Yeah, I remember something about that too. I think there was some discussion about it here on FM.

[caseymcq]

The law isn't explicit but I would bet you could get cited for angler harassment if you got too close to another angler or shelter and started drilling holes or for the bozo that someone had said dropped a line down their hole while they were re-bating.

Like others have said there is an element of common sense and common courtsey that should govern how we, as sportsmen, conduct ourselves on the ice or water and in the field.

[Wables]

Two years ago on Little Bay de Noc I went out to my permanent after work and found two guys using my shack for a wind break. They were actually leaning their chairs against my shack while they were fishing. All they had to say was "Hi." There were empty beer cans and cigarette buts all over. I don't think that it took me two minutes to back my 4 wheeler up, hook up the shack, and move 100' down the drop off. They didn't last long sitting out in the 30 mph wind, and I caught fish.

Another pet peave...people setting up between me and my tip-up. I like to fish away from other people, and I like to spread out a bit. For example, I will set up on the outside edge of a drop off to jig, and set my tipup on the flat above the drop-off. I don't know how many times I have had people set up between me an my tip-up, when they could just as easily move a bit down the break.

One more...I had 3 tip-up vs. snomobile collisions last year.

[federline]

Hmm, I guess I'm mellowing out as I get older. I used to get upset about people setting up close to me, but it's more of a gray area now for me.

If they aren't there to FISH, then they can ALL get lost. I hate noise that doesn't have to do with the sport, but I like to hear augers, portables setting up, heaters running, tackle clinking, voices talking fishing... If they are there to FISH, then I don't have a problem with 15 feet away from me, as long as they are cordial and generally concentrate on their fishing. They have as much right as I do to use the resource within the law.

In fact, if they were to offer me a 12oz. of Summit Ale as they were setting up, things would even go more splendidly. I like to think that their lines in the water attract more fish to me.

That said, my alter ego sometimes needs to find a deserted lake somewhere where I can be left alone - me and the fish, in silence.

I think my biggest pet peeve is that, living on Buffalo Lake, it is such a zoo, yet is such a fun, convenient lake for me to fish. The one that really gets my goat out there is when the 1 ton crew cab diesels are barreling by and circling my portable towing 12 foot drop downs. These rigs go by within 10 feet of me every year. I'd say leave the big rigs at home, or go somewhere that there is more room, or set it up during low traffic times.

Trivia: 61% of the annual crappie harvest in Buffalo comes during hardwater season.

[burl]

All of the above plus the nosey persons that have to come over to see how iam doing and then get stuck when they try to leave.I am ussually on a snowmobile so you would think that would give them a clue to stay away because the snow is to deep.Burl.

[grip-em+rip-em]

When you wake up really early sat. morning and drive 2.5 hours to beautiful lake of the woods, sipping coffee the entire time, dreaming of big, fat walleyes. Arrive at the house at first light to meet up with your buddies, who spent the night there. Find them all asleep in the house, a 5 gallon pale full of pee, empty beer cans all over the house, puke in one of the holes and the whole house smells worse then an outhouse, after a week of 95 degree temps. Hmmm...I just cant imagine people drinking to much on the ice.

[cwmn]

Sunnyj had it right.

It interesting to me that the biggest 2 pet peeves seem to be the territorial thing and the guys who don't like people setting up too close. We can't have it both ways.

My pet peeves are people who don't follow the law because they don't take the time to know what the law is. That covers just about everyones pet peeves.

Follow the law and respect others.

Thanx

CW

[Mr. Bear]

I have to say it's rude people on the ice for me. Some people are just so ornery out there they really shouldn't even go. I mean, why do a recreational activity if it's not re-creating you. Take the test I give myself: unless I can sit out all day without catching a fish and still say I had an enjoyable day, I shouldn't be out there.

I also have to mention cussing, because last year I had to listen to a group of guys in a shack yelling as if they were a 1/4 mile apart. Every other word was a profanity and a family near me ended up moving because they had young kids with them. I was even offended. It's one thing to swear in a bar, but another to swear on the ice. To me, being out on the ice is like walking into a church. It deserves some reverance.