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giong through the ice???

ilovehardwater

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Well I have to tell you that it wasn’t the smartest thing I have ever done but here is the story. It was late ice and we were fishing some farm ponds the fish weren’t bighting so we thought why not race our ATV’s. We set up an oval track on the ice and started to run our quads around ,well I was lucky that day and was winning until I thought one of my tires went through the ice at that point I pulled off the ice and told the others what I thought had happened. Well I have one friend that hates to lose so he talked me in to moving the cones out futher so when we walked out to do it I fell through the ice right where we had been riding. Now I don’t need anyone telling me how dumb it was because I know it was one of the dumbest things I have ever done and now I thank my lucky stars that I got out quickly. It scared the S@#t out of me. By the way I video tape the whole thing and I call it IDOT FEST. I won’t be doing that again any time soon.

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Yep, been there, done that...and I do not ever want to repeat that one again! It was early ice around 5" in early December. Temperatures warmed up during the day to around 50 and the ice began to sag around my spear house. Long story short, I started to jack up the house to add more blocking and I went through. Then, my new house (3 days old) started to sink! I nearly lost the house...I saved the house and later walked home cold and soaked...

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Last year I was on eary ice in an area that has a little current and I tested it with my spud and it went through without hardly any resistance with an inch at most. I did not go through but it got the blood pumping pretty fast.

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Went through once as a youngester. I treaded water in the hole for what felt like a century.If it wasn't for my older brother and a tree limb I'd prolly not be around today.

The toughest part of that whole adventure was the 1000 yard walk through the woods to get home, in wet clothes, in January. Then, once I FINALLY made it home, getting in the house and hugging the wood stove without mom finding out what happened.

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Every year we read the tragic stories of people going out onto 'early' ice and becoming a casualty. This is the reason our company became involved in the sport of ice fishing. I have received emails from people telling the story of their 'fall' through the ice, and how they lived to tell about it. It is difficult for you to imagine how that makes me feel. If I ever hit the Powerball, I will give all ice fishermen one of our suits, so that mothers, fathers, wives and children won't have to experience these life-changing accidents. I want everyone to realize that this is not me (V.P. of Sales) speaking, but me the person...

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When I get the money I plan on getting some arctic armor seeing as I swim like a rock but I wondered if sinking is really the problem or is it more about not being able to get out. Watching that video mentioned above gives another selling point for arctic armor, it gets your body to be more parallel to the ice making it easier to pull yourself out. With some hand spikes I think you could be in decent shape as long as you can warm up reasonably soon after getting out.

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