1 Dead, More Than 100 Rescued

I saw this on the news a couple of times yesterday. Those people were very lucky. It's a miracle only one person died! I hope they have all learned their lesson about ice safety.

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IMO - If you have to put planks across the ice, something should tell you that the ice isn't thick enough and to fish someplace else or on another day.

 

The planks have nothing to do with ice thickness,...They are used to travel across stress cracks and pressure ridges in the ice,...The biggest problem was the off shore winds that moved the ice out....

 

I grew up in the midwest, and I still don't understand the fascination with sitting on a frozen lake or river to catch fish while freezing your backside off.

 

Some of them hired air boats to get back on the ice.

 

If your a die hard fisherman it's not hard to understand,.....Besides there is usually beer,brandy and brats involved,.....

 

Yeah,....A friend of a friend down there swamped his air boat when the wind pushed him off kilter trying to line up to get on the ice,....air boat and four wheeler are resting in 15 feet of water last I heard,..

 

Ice fishing has never appealed to me, neither has driving on a frozen lake. I know people that do it and have been invited in the past. i politely refused and then said i'd be willing to call them a psychiatrist about their suicidal behavior. Since then no invites no problem!

 

the biggest problem was it was 50 degrees yesterday and the ice was melting and making it weak. You dont go out on ice to have fun after 2 days of warm weather

 

Well that line of thinking just smacks of common sense there bangngears. How dare you!!!! I mean really, the nerve of you trying to inject common sense on these poor defenseless stupid ice fishermen out there in slohio. TSK TSK