not gloating but..

Here's what we do on Saturday morning in Central Florida:


water conditions:


double run:


these guys did a cool double backerds deep and had a long run...unfortunatly the camera person/driver dropped his phone during the run....




john

Gee thanks,John. Snowed here all day, calling for more tomorrow and Monday!

Dave: LOL!

I dropped the phone Andy...wanted to get some pics 'cause they did the start so easy & took a big run...

Sorry Tom...



john

thank you sir...had to drive these 2 just right......



john

there you go..pretty much the way I drive too...

john

SNobsessed wrote: But we save so much boat gas in the winter up here!!

If you don't like the way I'm driving, fine! you drive, I'll ski!!!

If you don't drown me or rip the handle out of my hands, the only words you'll here out of me are "Hit It!"

Hey John, it looks like you guys had some pretty ideal conditions.....hope you had a chance to get out of the driver's seat and into your wet suit at some point during the day.

is that an ice shack? if so what happens where the tires allow wind under it when fishing over the hole

More importantly Peter,Is that a TUBE behind that shack???

The shacks can be a wonder of engineering, some very professional but many the work of a guy with a beer in one hand and a welder in the other. The simple versions have the tires mounted on an arm. As a winch pulls on one arm the axle rotates raising and lowering the frame off the ice. Some are more complicated.



Others are fixed and they pile snow around the bottom. Some just slide on wooden skids from shore to the fishing spot.

All are subject to freezing to the ice. Removal is the funnest part.

they did let me ski Mark...

some cool pics all you winter guys..I guess ya just gotta make the best of it and look for ways to have fun whatever the season. Thats what its all about!


john

peter1234 wrote: why not just build a rectangle box with no top or bottom and slide it down to meet the ice .it could be just smaller than the hole in the floor .

Easy for you to think like that huh? Seven months of that cold crap freezes your brain i think.

Great idea. I am just saying given so many months of the cold
it is easy to over think the solution.

Glad to say, ice drinking is no longer a part of my vocabulary, except when i describe it to some native floridian.

peter1234 wrote: why not just build a rectangle box with no top or bottom and slide it down to meet the ice .it could be just smaller than the hole in the floor .

I am sure its been done. Its not really my sport, but you can't live here and not hear about it. A few thoughts.

1. Floor temp. Ice stays around 30 degrees. Minnesota air regularly hits overnight -10 or lower in January and February.

2 Average hand powered ice auger can drill to 48 inches, but at full depth you operating it inches above your standing surface. Minnesota ice gets to 24" or more, add 18" for axle clearance, suspension and floor height and you performing your hole drilling work 6 inches off the floor.

3. There is also the need to scoop slush and such from the hole so your bait will drop through (I have seen many do this using bare fingers for the "scoop" Others use what looks to be a round slotted spoon device) It is no fun to do this lying on your belly, although a long handled slush scoop would remedy this.

For every solution there is a new problem.

#1 Move south and fish from a boat! Then you don't have to worry about 2 and 3.