Whats your favorite "Stupid Qustion" on the ice?

[IcePro]

I thought I would have some fun and ask if anyone has a favorite "Stupid Qustion" they get asked will out on the ice.

One of my favotites is.....

I am out on the ice fishing and someone will drive up to you in their vehicle and ask "How thick is the ice?" I tell them I don't know where your tuck is but where I am at it is only 3". You should see the look on their face.

[hunt4food]

Do we need an auger extension out here?

[Steve Foss]

1. Is this a good spot? or Do you catch any fish here?

2. Will you share your beer?

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"Worry less, fish more."
Steve Foss
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[Guest]

"Do you think the ice is safe?"

[Guest]

I brought a group of guys out last winter that never had been ice fishing, and one of them asked me if he should bring a net. Still get a chuckle out of that one

[joshb]

will you drill some holes for us?...........

funny part is we're like 30 minutes out on LOTW. you know they drove something like 6 hours to ask us that. citiots.

[addicted]

I like, what ya using
I usually respond a jig and minnow

[IcePro]

This one has happened on Mille Lacs

Two guys came up to me and asked if I had a tape measure to measure their FROZEN walleyes before they went in. They wanted to be sure they were within the slot limit.

Their walleyes (1) was within the slot by a 1/4".

[IcePro]

Where did you catch your fish?

I reply "In the mouth!"

[Guest]

Y'all fishin? Nope, just sitin here on the ice waitin for um to jump out the hole. Heres your sign!!

[Guest]

Got any beer?
I usually reply "As you can see by all the cans outside the door (which is zero) um NO
I dont drink on the ice. Liquor pig (Paisano Wine for me) like the rest on shore but not on ice.

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Fish On! This is
what it's all about baby!

[Dark Cloud]

Use to get this one alot about 5-10 years ago. Someone would stroll over and point at my Vex and say "does that thing show fish"?

[iffwalleyes]

Their question "what are they biting on"

My response "on the hook".

Their question "where are the fish at"

My response "in the lake".

OH OH I can forget this one that happend last year. Let me first set the scene it is about 0 degrees outside. All of use who fish permanent house know the holes freeze when it is this cold. Two kids that are about 16 years old knock on my house door they ask "can you drill some holes for us" My response why where is your auger. Their response we thought the holes would still be open from a couple days ago so we didn't bring ours." What do I do I bite my lip and go drill their holes for them.

Number 2 another group of young fishermen "Can you drill holes for us" My response "where is your auger at" They replied "The one we have doesn't want to cut right I think the blades are dull". Ok so I go to drill their holes and I look at there auger it is a Eskimo powerhead with a Jiffy bit. Those of you who know power augers know that this combination will never drill a hole because Jiffy augers spin in the opposite direction from eskimos and strikemasters. So the auger no matter what they did would never drill a hole. I tried not to laugh but it was difficult. When I left I told them yep you better get that fixed the kid said ya we need to get a new blade. It was to much fun for me I never told him that that would fix his problem. I wounder if he ever figured that out. I drilled their holes and left laughing all the way.

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Grip it and Rip it

IFFWalleyes
I Fish For Walleyes
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[This message has been edited by iffwalleyes (edited 11-25-2003).]

[Yellow Belly]

Q:
What time is it?

A:
Who cares.

[chunkytrout]

Q: Been here long?

A: Years...

Q: Bitin'?

A: When they feel hungry.

Q: Whatta ya got on there?

A: MPR

Q: Gettin' any?

A: Kind of personal, aint it?

Q: Got an extra one in that cooler?

A: In case I run out? Ya...

Chunk

Won't be long now! THINK ICE!

[feverpetal]

They do make and sell nets to be used in ice fishing. They're oval and slightly curved. Pretty cool, actually. Might be nice for the slippery ones.

fp

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"Cast riiiiight....there."

[Guest]

Last winter a guy comes up to a buddy and me on the lake and asks how the fish breath under all this ice ? At first we thought he was just pullin our chains but he goes on and says I know they jump out of the water in summer to grab a breath but how do they get air under the ice ?
By now we realize this guy is serious so my buddy says they come up to the open ice holes and catch a breath. The guy says that makes sense and away he went. LMAO

Yellow Belly , When someone on my crew asks me what time it is I say It's time to buy a watch. LOL

[Guest]

7 or 8 years ago I was fishing gills on Gray's Bay/Minnetonka with a friend one Saturday afternoon. We were doing ok. About 2 PM, a young foreign couple came out onto the snow covered lake. They were having a snowball fight and carousing around when they approached us. It was love in bloom from what I saw. I was sitting on a Fish Trap jigging when the guy asked me what I was doing. I said I was fishing. He says fishing? I said that's right, fishing. I then showed him the gills we had already caught. Just then I hooked another and pulled it up through the hole. They both looked at me in astonishment and said "We are on a lake?" I said duh, yes. I never saw two people run so fast in my life. The look of terror on their faces was awesome. I think they thought they were on a parking lot! ........

Another thought....Dumb questions. Are they all really dumb? If you don't ask, you don't get an answer. So maybe the dumbest question is the one you don't ask.......

Geeman.....That story of yours is a prize winner. I never heard anything like that! LOL!........T

[Big Roy]

Whenever they ask what I am using I'll tell them "Hula Poppers" I even sent a couple of guys to the bait shop once to ask for them by name.

[willowcat]

Q: What do you catch here?

A: A cold,a buzz,but mostly ice."I am icefishin".

[RK]

Hiya,

My top two:

Two guys that pull up to me in early December in a Lincoln Navigator 700 yards out on the lake, get out, and ask me how thick the ice is. "About 6 inches" says I. "Is that enough to drive on?" I tell them to look around and count how many other cars they see out here (zero). Guys headed for shore so fast they spun out 3 times...

The other wasn't really a question, but out on Walker Bay on Leech Lake once, a guy (whom I know and some of you may as well, but I'll keep him anonymous, as tempted as I am to name names ) comes driving toward us in an Intl. Scout, right through an area marked with the orange diamond 'thin ice' signs. When he got out, I told him what he'd done and he said 'Noooo, I think those are for the snowmobile race track.' And off he goes, right back through the thin ice signs, slush flying. He made it - God smiles on idiots...

Cheers,
RK

[WallEYES]

Do you have any toilet paper?

[Animal]

A guy is sitting on a bucket next to me on LOW. We've been talk'in for two hours when he asks if I ever saw a truck go through the ice.
I answer, "NO".
Then he says " I wonder how many times they do?"
I answer, "Juct once".

[icehousebob]

When my daughter was at U of M, Morris, a new professor moved there from Virginia. Another prof took him for a drive to show him the countryside. Suddenly the new prof turned and said" I was told there wasn't a problem with homeless people around here!" He was answered that there wasn't. "Well, what about those poor people out by those shacks there?" He had to be driven out on the snow covered frozen lake to show him that what he saw were fish houses.

[silveroddo]

Big Roy
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Registered: Jan 2001
posted 11-26-2003 07:04 AM
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"Whenever they ask what I am using I'll tell them "Hula Poppers" I even sent a couple of guys to the bait shop once to ask for them by name"

hahaha, yep love doing that one. Next time tell them "Dupont Spinners" about 90% of the time no one knows what your talking about, the bait stores around here know all about em now though ;-)
-Anyone know what a dupont spinner is? ;-)