They’re nuts!

The lake ice is starting to go and has been for a week. It's 6 to 8 feet from shore and out in the middle it’s turning black. It’s a very good sign spring is here and a very bad sign for a group of hearty foolish people.... late season ice fisher- people. Thankfuly they have the brights not to drive out onto the ice.

Yet, there the still are out drilling holes and dangling lines through the ice.
Yesterday it got to me, I questioned how’d they get out there without swimming in 35 degree water with all their fishing gear?

I stopped that the Island Sports Shop and asked the same question…..
Here’s the answer…. The guys group together and one of the nuts brings a long extention ladder which they use to span the open water. They place plywood strip over the open rungs. This creates a causeway to the feeding ground of hundreds of hungry bluegills.

I’ve gone through the ice twice in mid winter at a minus 5 degrees… it’s not fun. Even with an outside temp of 45 the water is still breath taking. It's like those polar bear dips you see on Tv. They cut a hole in the ice and people jump in the water to raies funds for this and that cause....yet I don't see these young kids staying in the freezing water to play polo. They all have a scew loose, what would their mothers say?