Ice Manners

[Guest]

You know I don't agree...it's a public lake and it's everyones. There is no need to ask someone to share the ice. Granted 2 feet away is a little close. But, I'm sure you boys have been out on Mille Lacs or where ever and literally trolled within feet of other boats...who cares? If you have a problem move and find them elsewhere...they don't just sit on the one little area you've fished for the last 20 years.

FYI...I'm usually the guy off in the distance away from the crowds so no I don't practice moving in on 'peoples territory'...I find new areas instead of whining!!

[Mankato-Ice-Man]

Same thing happened to us this morning on Madison Lake. My brother in law and I picked a spot near the narrows. We purposly picked a spot away from where everyone was fishing and set up. We started to mark a few fish, not much, and out comes 2 jerks in pickups, running around, noisy (half loaded?) and drilled 4 holes about 10 to 15 feet out the door of our house. They had an old Joffy auger that was so **** loud ... needless to say.. bye bye fish. Plus we had to set there listening to every thing that they said, thats how close they were. Withing the next 15 minutes 4 or 5 different people piled right in around us. Fishing sucked in that spot, but on our way out I had to voice, loudly, how big the fish we caught were, and how the vex screen was so full.. and on and on. They either knew I was mad, or thought our spot, less then 20 feet from all these IDIOTS was that much hotter.
Oh well.
I try to not care about such stuff, but this was almost dumb how close everyone got and for nothing.

[Guest]

it never ceases to amaze me, doesn't seem to matter hard water or open. some people are here for one purpose only and that seems to be to prove just how inconsiderate some people can be!

i've only been fishing in Mn for about 3 yrs now and it is truely incredible. last week out on big lake, my buddy wanted to set up on "the point" right in the middle of every body else. i told him about crowds (not to mention courtesey) so we went to the other side of the lake there were 3 perm shacks that was it. (area the size of a football field) took a few readings thru the ice and found a nice shoulder. we set our portable as far as possible from the others (uninhabited). after an hr. or so one of the tenants came to his shack. this guy was great! he had a nice 6 man and came over to see how we were doing. after chatting for a while he said that he was heading out and if we wanted we could go ahead and use his shack as long as we locked it back up when we left. a complete stranger!!!! this guy is what fishing is about.

we stayed put and 1/2 hr. later the world starts falling apart. we had a 757 landing on the lake...actually a Z71 50 miles an hr.,major thunder from the cracking, holes gushing what a mess. this rocket scientist carefully calculated how far from the portable he had to lock up the brakes and start sliding so he could stop directly in front of us (we could have spit on him he was soooo close) he opens his window and starts yelling hey guy's how's it going, catching any??? we lifted the top, looked at each other then at him and started laughing. pulled the top back down. people are incredible!!!

[Cyberfish]

One day last summer when I was working up at Gem fishing camp, we took some campers to a small lake that only had one other boat out on it, besides mine and Dave, the camp director's boats. The other boat was on the far shore.
We motored around, until we found a hump in the middle that he knew was a good spot for bass and pike. Well, he threw a orange marker bouy out and we started fishing. Within 5 minutes, the boat on the other side started up and motored up to the spot and dropped his anchor on top of the marker and started fishing! Dave didn't say anything right to them, but he turned to the kids in his boat and spoke loud enough that the other boat could hear, " Now when you grow up and get your own boats, never EVER do what that boat just did"!

We had a good laught about it later , and thought about next time throwing the marker in the worst part of the lake, or getting a remote control marker, to see how long the boats would follow it around

Cyb

www.gemfishing.org

[Guest]

Even when you think you're away from everyone, someone could find you! Fished for several years with a group that used to explore and fly into remote Ontario/Manitoba lakes. We brought along sleeping bags and a wall tent, and had some fantastic winter lake trout action.
One morning we're thawing ourselves out in front of the fire, when we hear another aircraft - and watch in amazement as a couple of guys circle the areas we had been fishing, and drop in on an excellent spot we had fished the evening before. Dumbfounded, we took stock of the situation and realized that there was quite a bit of blood on the snow around our holes in that location.
Different lake, a week later, and here comes the same plane, scans the area and drops in. Cursing now, we realize we had better either get smarter or go farther.
Following week, yet another lake (same general area) and we had a fantastic Saturday afternoon - fishing was so fast we used only one hole apiece and got 'em on jigging rods. This time, we carefully scooped up all the bloody snow and loaded a bunch in a plastic sled. Went over a couple of hundred yards, drilled a bunch of holes in about 6 feet of water (atop a reef) and salted the area with the bloody snow.
Sunday morning, and our shadows arrived right on schedule. They took the bait!
Gleefully, we scampered out to the real area, and proceeded to howl and hoot as we caught and released nearly 50 trout. About 2 in the afternoon, it was time to fly home, so my buddy hollers over to them "Hey, we're leaving now if you want to fish over here."
We could tell they were a bit PO'd, so I casually walk over and inquired as to how they were doing. Turns out these guys didn't even have an auger! They cruised around looking for fresh holes with obvious activity. The one guy inquired about the shallowness of this batch of holes, so I told him that the trout were up in the shallows the evening before - and if they stuck around 'til dark they would surely get some excellent action.
They pretty much left us alone after that.

[Guest]

Remote control markeres and decoy holes!LMAO

[Guest]

The ice manners I have to complain about today is the morons that drive a bizzilion miles an hour and not even on the roads. I lost a tip up 2day to a car full of teenagers. Well, they didn't pay. But they should have, I doubled their vocab! And minutes later after I returned to my holes I watched another truck just plow right through me and my buddies circle! No we were not in the road. We were a good 30 feet off to the side! Do people know what roads are? I'm just sick of people that don't know how to drive and the fact that I'm out 20 bucks because of it.

-Mr. Fisherman
P.S.
Maybe we could apply this dummy tactic to tip-ups maybe sharpen the part that sticks up? If they would have had a popped tire at least I would have had a good laugh!