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dad took a polar dip

fishlessman
fishlessman Posts: 33,540
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
:laugh: only half way and not on purpose, missed the camera shot as he fell in :whistle: check out this for a pressure ridge, had to drive a couple miles to find a place i could cross it on the wheeler, crack in the ice must have been 4 miles long. lived up to the handle, no fish weekend, not even a bite. pretty cool pic though

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fukahwee maine

you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • crghc98
    crghc98 Posts: 1,006
    Wow...heard a truck went through up in NH somewhere this weekend....

    some pretty good bouts of Warm weather recently...this week should take care of some of the week spots after this rain though...

    Missed a guys weekend a couple of weeks ago where a buddy put a brand new 4 wheeler in 35ft.....able to fish it out but over 1k to get it going again....
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  • Lawn Ranger
    Lawn Ranger Posts: 5,467
    I'll say!
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,540
    was nervous a few crossings, felt the rear tires drop twice bouncing up with everything flying, was watching for open water marks near the cracks but the foot of snow we had saturday hid it all, hard to miss the ridges though. we were in 150/200 foot water were the crossings took place, dont want to even think how we could get a wheeler out
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,698
    Not a picture you see often in Texas :ohmy:
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). 

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  • eenie meenie
    eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
    Wow, so that's a pressure ridge. Thanks for sharing fish. You be careful from now on...... :whistle:
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  • Gator Bait
    Gator Bait Posts: 5,244
     
    Cool! Glad your Dad's OK.

    I went to boarding school on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee for a few years and we would scrounge up a couple broken hockey sticks and a sheet from the linen service and make a simple sail. We would skip out of the dorm after lights out and put our skates on and go sailing by moonlight, daylight on the weekends if we could get away with it. There was always good air but we had to keep our eyes peeled at night for the pressure ridges, particularly between the islands. They could get to 4' or more and were nasty to sail into at a high rate of speed. You do that once and you learn very fast to keep an eye open for them. Great photo, tanks for the memories. :)


    Blair


     
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,540
    lots of sled crashes over the weekend, imagine doing a buckten on a lake at night knowing these are out there :blink: guy on the news hit a shanty doing this this last weekend, it was the shantys fault :laugh:
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • 2Fategghead
    2Fategghead Posts: 9,624
    Great Pic. ;)
    About 40 years ago I went fishing a lot with my dad. We lived in Milwaukee, Wi. and went fishing north of there a lot. I remember going with them ice fishing and taking snowmobiles on frozen lakes...you could drive your car or truck on the lake and they even plowed snow on the lake to make roads. I never forget those times. ;)
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  • Gator Bait
    Gator Bait Posts: 5,244
     
    I thought it was scary enough flying along on skates after dark. Even on a cloudy day the darn ridges don't show until it's to late. :blink:

    Hahahaha, gotta keep an eye on those shanties, their sneaky little rascals! LOL, never had any encounters of the shanty kind while on skates. Now that must be embarrassing!!! I bet the guy that encountered the shanty won't be showing his face in town for coffee for a while! Was he from Massachusetts? There still learning how to drive down there I hear, or is it that they just forget how when they get down here?. :laugh:


    Blair


     
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  • MemphisQue
    MemphisQue Posts: 610
    Very cool pic. Not something we see down south.
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  • crghc98
    crghc98 Posts: 1,006
    The tires kept it floating upside down, at least for a little bit....saw a picture, sucker had big tires on it...
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  • crghc98
    crghc98 Posts: 1,006
    I've always thought those guys were nuts....even in the woods doing a buck ten, if you hit a down tree or something you are done....
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Brewster Academy?

    cool story about sailing on the lake at night...

    good times......
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    sounds funny, but damn that's scary.....
    he have a change of clothes?
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Gator Bait
    Gator Bait Posts: 5,244
     
    Flashback Bob wrote:
    Brewster Academy?

    cool story about sailing on the lake at night...

    good times......

    Hahahahaha, I guess there aren't many boarding schools right on the lake. Yes, Brewster Academy. Our dorm had lake front property and now has to be worth in the millions! We were lucky to have at least one winter where the ice was fantastic. I was skating one day and a small plane came down and landed not far from me and let a couple young kids out with their skates already on. They skated for a while and the plane came back and picked them up again. I always thought that was pretty cool. :lol: We didn't get to see much TV while there and had to entertain our selves when we had free time. I picked apples one year for one of the teachers at Brewster for exclusive fishing rights to his family farm pond. It was a great deal, he thought the pond probably hadn't been fished in about 100 years. It had been in his family for longer then that and was full of white bass, sunfish and blue gills and it was only about 3 or 4 apple trees. I also attended a pre prep school in Exeter, N.H. called Emerson.

    I still think New Hampshire is about as pretty as it gets. Between the White Mountains and the Lakes Region it is hard to beat. I climbed telephone poles in Berlin, N.H. one summer and camped out in Shelburn, N.H. just down the road. It was spectacular!

    Did you go to Brewster also Bob?

    Blair


     
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  • Gator Bait
    Gator Bait Posts: 5,244
     
    Hahahaha, you hit a tree at half that speed and your just a red smudge in the snow! :laugh:


    Blair


     
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,693
    Brrrr

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


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