If you want to fish in open patches of water during freeze up all you DIE HARDS, I,ll repeat this same post from last year. My friend and I have done it for years: you need a 12 ft. alum. boat... 2 of you,one on each side in the centre of the boat walk along on whatever ice there is wearing
hip waders in case you break through a bit.. the ice and the boat will hold your weight. Both hands on the gunnel, slide the boat over the ice as you walk.. don,t panic if your foot breaks through, the boat will hold you.
One year the fire dept. tried to rescue us when we didn,t even want rescuing! A pike pole is handy to get yourself back on the ice on the way home. If you think it,s too dangerous, you may want to think about calling yourselves something else.
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