Practical Joke

[the buck]

OK all FM'ers lets hear it . . . Next month I'm taking a friend up to LOW ice fishing. He is from Iowa and never ice fished before. My wife said just for fun I need to pull a good practical joke on him! Suggestions please . . .

[Cottco]

Get him out of the shack long enough to submerge a rubber chicken or training bird, then get him back in by proclaiming that a huge fish just took his line and the bobber is missing. For added giggles, turn the drag down to the bottom - making sure you submerged whatever several feet. We pulled this on a fella from Georgia some years ago - makes for a good laugh.

[Bobb-o]

the first time you hear the ice booming, lay down on the ice and start crawling away from the vehicle and your buddy, and tell him if he didnt want to go through he would do the same, have done this on a couple of people, almost had one girl crying.

[Northlander]

The old fishing line on the tip up flag always keeps them running til they figure it out.

[finspat]

Few years back I took a coworker ice fishing,

He was from california, I showed him the ropes about using a tip-up.

Here we are fishing in the portable house, each of us has a tip-up out, I told him you can have all the flags, he say yeah right!

Any was a flag pops I tell him what to do, it was freezing cold had no desire to stand next to him while he attempts to get this fish in!

I talk him how to do it from the fish house tip-up is about 30 feet away from this house.

I am fishing and looking down my hole, I see black tip-up line, cruising across my hole, what are the chances!

So i reach down and cath this hammer handle northern and now i have his line, telling him to let him take the line.

He yells back it is taking the line kinda fast, i may run out, i yell for him to relax, then i stand up and get ready to yank on this line hoping to break it!

i yank really hard and he yanks hard too, we are having a tug a-war, he is screamming for me to come out he has a huge monster!

Now people are crowding around his hole watching him fight this huge fish!

i would let go he would say I lost him!

I yell he may be swimming towards the hole!

and i give it another hard yank!

Never did break the line!!!!

so i just let go!

Now there was about a dozen people out there witnessing all this, this guy was in tears!

He talked about how hard these fish can pull , when he catches a 4 or 5 pound pike he says that was nothing compared to the monster i had on a few years back!!!

I never told him about me doing this!

Good luck fishing!

[john.wells]

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the first time you hear the ice booming, lay down on the ice and start crawling away from the vehicle and your buddy, and tell him if he didnt want to go through he would do the same, have done this on a couple of people, almost had one girl crying.

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I like this one a lot

[softballfisherguy]

What CottCo said -- if no chicken? We've used an empty pop can, wait till he leaves the house for a bit, hook the hook on the pop top opener and fill it with water and let her sink a ways, he comes in and his bobber will be gone. It creates quite a pull on the way up and then quite a shock when he finally realizes what it is. We got one guy 2 times in one day with this - the third time he left - we didn't - and his bobber was down - he wouldn't reel it up - so we did and it was a fish!

[gspman]

There's the minnow in the bottle of beer trick.

If you are staying in a sleeper there's the tying a cooking pot to their line and telling them they have a big one.

[Dan Thiem]

Just before you drive out on the ice start untying your boot laces. Make sure your buddy takes note of you doing that. Then when he asks why, just say it's hard to swim with them on. That'll get him nervous.

[dirtking]

throw vehicle in nuetral and bail out while yelling we're going through

[picksbigwagon]

These are awesome.......I have done the beer can on the fishing line trick. I absolutely love the lay on the ice, and jumping out of the truck, I might have to do that one this winter....the only practical joke that I have pulled off was the fake lottery ticket in a Mille lacs sleeper a few years back. It was my brother's 40th, and he "won" $10,000......it helped that no one else knew what was going on and I bought everyone a different lottery ticket from MN. I knew he was going to react the way he did, calm cool collected on the outside, puking 10 minutes later, he pukes when he gets excited........

[milnortech]

tell him the fishings best at night and have him catch some eelpout make sure he reaches down and grabs the fish to bring it in so it wraps around his arm.

[jonboy]

use black electrical tape and tape a quarter or 50 cent piece on the bottom of his transducer. use a knife or razor blade to trim the tape so it's not noticable. you can see bottom but it won't mark fish or your lure/bait. really fun if they have a different brand and you can tell them how much better your locator is.

[Blaze]

Bobb-o - I LOVE IT! Will definitely use that one this year.

This was purely an accident that allowed for a great prank: about 12 years ago after my last trip to LOW of the ice season, I forgot a 16-17" walleye in my 5 gallon bucket that I used as a seat. Well, over the summer he 'dried out' and was formed to the curve of the pail. First outing of the next year I discoverd the the dehydrated carcass in my bucket, and quietly snuck over and hooked it on my buddies line outside while I supposedly took a leak. He came out a couple minutes later and freaked out and started bringing it in. Keep in mind the curved carcass, not just dead weight like a beer can...

I asked him excitedly, "Is it a good one? How big does he feel?"

His reply was, "Man, he's swimming circles - he may not be huge, but he's sure fighting good!"

He got it out of the water and just stood there looking at it, completely dumbfounded...this pale, crusty, stiff walleye dangling on his line, not moving at all. He had no clue what was going on til I shot Mtn Dw out my nose laughing. Then the chase began, and the ensuing facewash in the snow. It was worth every second of it, and the other 2 guys we were fishing with were rolling on the ice! We got one other guy with the same fish later that day.

[MuskieJunkie]

FINSPAT - To this day you have never told him! Man that is cruel, and hilarious all at the same time.

[VMS]

if fishing for crappies or walleyes with bobbers in the house or on the ice, distract him just enough so that he is not paying attention to his line. Quickly hook on a depthfinder-sinker so the bobber goes under. Then tell him he has a fish on...

Steve

[the buck]

These are great stories guys . . . keep them coming. (FYI we are fishing out of Arnesens so I can't use yours Bobb-O but thats a classic!) I was fishing with a group of guys a few years back. These two guys(Brother-in-laws) would sneak over in front of the others portable and take a huge dump! Boy was that a scene!

[Bobb-o]

When i did it to the one girl we were in the middle of a group of houses on Red Lake, if they have never been ice fishing before, it will work.

[Capt.Blaine]

I can’t believe no one has brought this one up yet.

When your buddy goes outside of the shack, tie his line to a metal ice scoop. Make sure it’s to the handle. Then drop it down to the bottom. When he sees his rod bent over and starts pulling. The scoop will spin and he will think there is a monster fish on for sure.

This works for me every time I try it. I even had one person yell get the gaf. I wont say any names but he visits this site often.

[Polar Bear]

This is one my 8 year old nephew and I used to pull on anybody entering the fish house:

You need a radio that operates on AC or DC (either batteries or 110 v. plug-in). When the sukker comes in my house I make conversation with him while the nephew very casually lights a couple matches one at a time and throws them into an open hole, then he nonchalantly pours an ounce or two of soda-pop in the hole on top of the floating matches. Next he carefully uncoils the 110 v. cord from the radio and throws the plug-in end of the cord into the hole with the soda and matches. HE THEN TURNS ON THE RADIO AND THE MUSIC STARTS AS IF BY MAGIC !

Of course, only we know it is powered by batteries but if you pull it off correctly (without laughing) everybody is absolutely amazed that my radio is powered by cold water, soda pop, and a few burned match heads.

Over the years we pulled that on more than a dozen people and their reactions were priceless. Enjoy.

[icegrogg]

Taking my wife ice fishing for the first time she watched me hold my glow jig and minnow up to the light, she had a plain jig and minnow set-up. I told her that I was getting my set-up to glow under water. She decided that she would try it also and started holding up her rig to the light, thinking that it was the minnow that was going to glow under the water because she didn't know that that there was such a thing as a glowing jig. If he doesn't know about glow jigs this might work for you also.Good luck and good laughs.

[Bassman]

Me and my freind did the weight on the end of the hook while his dad was out talking and he came back in and the look on his face was price less. Then he pulls it up and sees its a weight and calls us a couple of names it was funny. I really like the one where you lay on the ground.