A friend of mine read my Fire on Ice post and clarified why it isn’t dangerous to have a fire on the ice.
He explains that fires don’t actually burn that hot at the level of the ice because there isn’t as much air underneath the wood as above it. That coupled with the ash [...]
As I was doing research for my last post, I came upon an article about ice safety. At the end of the article, a reader posted a comment that he’s seen people build fires out on the ice. The commenter couldn’t believe that they would do such a thing. Previous to my [...]
Over the last few months, when I’ve been telling friends and family that I’ve been ice fishing, those that don’t ice fish themselves are astounded to hear that we have a heater in our shelter. Conventional wisdom would dictate that bringing a heater out on the ice would, as one of my friends put [...]
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Species: Crappie
Size: 9″, 8″, 8″, 7″
Lure used: hot pink jighead with white plastic grub and live minnows
Date: 1/24/2010
Time: 7:30-11:30am
Body of water: An Iced Over Lake
Location: Somewhere in the North Metro
Weather Conditions: overcast, foggy, drizzly
I got a call from Mark last night saying that he and the neighbors were headed out at 7:30 this morning to [...]
I haven’t been able to get out on the ice in the past few weeks, so I haven’t had any ice fishing stories to tell. However, in talking with my buddy, Dan, he recalled an amazing story that happened to him and one of his friends while ice fishing in Northern Minnesota several years [...]
The open water fishing article I posted earlier this week reminded me of a segment I saw on Minnesota Bound last weekend. The host, Ron Schara, introduced a story about Nelson Lake in North Dakota.
The lake is used by Minnkota Power to cool its turbines. The water is then returned to the lake [...]
The BassPastor turned his readers on to this article about open water fishing in the winter in Minnesota:
No ice hole necessary: You can catch fish all winter in open water
It sounds like a lot more fun than sitting over a hole. But it also sounds pretty challenging unless you know what you’re doing. [...]
I’m a little late with this news because I haven’t been trolling forums as much in recent months.
Back in late October, a couple of muskie hunter old-timers caught a monster muskie that may be the new Minnesota record.
Just like Kyle Anderson from Michigan, the pair was more interested in releasing the lunker in good [...]
If you’re even remotely into bass fishing, you know that Manabu Kurita of Japan caught a largemouth bass in July that was widely believed to be a new world record.
The results were made official late last week and he was given a tie with the world record set 77 years ago. Field and Stream [...]
Fishing Jones celebrated the New Year by posting 5 steps to making your own rod tube:
Go to hardware store.
Buy PVC stuff.
Glue PVC stuff together.
Breathe in PVC Glue, depress nervous system.
Adorn with accumulated stickers.
Simple, yet effective. Time to take a trip to the hardware store.
But I think I’ll replace step 4 with:
4. Spray [...]
