The difference being, if I tell my wife the ice was thin she gets mad at me for chancing it. If I tell her it was skinny she shrugs her shoulders and says cute. Kinda like when your off shore and the bilge pump hose gets a crack in it and you don’t notice till it’s almost too late. It’s best to say the day was an adventure and spare the details
It was -13f when I got to the spear house, and -8 when I left about 20 minutes ago. I ended up with a 21.5” walleye that came into the decoy, but bit a small spoon/wax worm combo. Nice by-catch to spearing, and big enough to harvest its cheeks for what we like to call “freshwater scallops.”
Plans are in the works to play hooky from work next Thursday afternoon-evening, with a couple other guys from work and my 13 year old. I haven't been ice fishing since probably 1995 so this'll be fun. The lake we're going to has a ton of pickerel, some kokanee salmon, stocked rainbow trout and plenty of perch and bluegills. I do have one ice fishing pole that was my grandfather's, and my coworker says he has half a dozen tip ups. Gotta capitalize on this cold weather while it's here because we haven't had good ice in several years now.
