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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Wulp, before I even start out with how all the cracks were open at least 2 feet this morning going out of Linwood rd, and the 7MPH wind predicted was actually about 12 MPH sustained till late afternoon, lets examine the picture I posted below. It's a picture of me from today, and my first (and sadly my last walleye) caught in my brand new Eskimo Outpost Shanty. How can this be you ask? And Isn't my new shanty a beauty? :confused:
You may have noticed in the picture that I have the shanty travel cover opened up behind me. Well, that is not meant to advertise my new Eskimo, but to cover up the Hula-Hoop sized hole I burned in it with my MR. Heater not 30 minutes after we arrived. :tdo12: :rant:
The Eskimo shanty is made out of that nylon material and not as heavy as the canvas that my old Otter skin shanty had. So instead of hanging straight down and out of the way, when you open the door flap, the wind flips it around like it was paper. So when I realized I had left my GPS on my 4 wheeler and went out to get it. The wind grabbed the door flap and raped it around my MR. Heater and poof, the door was trashed. :bash:
But hang on, it's not over.....Oh...No. After I get the travel cover jury rigger to keep out the cold, the one client gets a hit and looses his bait. Then the other client gets a hit and looses his bait. While I'm rebating the last clients DoJigger and not paying attention, my Dead rod leaps off the box it's on and down the hole. I drop to my knees and grab it right before it vanishes around the corner of the hole. Of course while doing this maneuver, my precious GPS comes out of my pocket and it drops down the other hole. I reach down to my elbow and save it as well, and then land the little squirt walleye in the picture. :sick:
So lets review.... After stopping at Franks after we were done fishing with that small walleye and an equally small catfish under our belts, the whole trip only cost me $260.00. That was the difference after trading back in the Eskimo shanty (or what was left of it), plus the damage charges, in exchange for a brand new Otter II shanty. Would also add it took us 30 minutes to find a place to cross back over on the shore side of the crack tonight. I hope the cold does a better job of healing those cracks for tomorrow. But there's a 10 to 20 MPH off shore wind predicted for tomorrow. Be careful out there. Ya,...coming from me that's funny hey?. :fish2:
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Location: upper michigan | well Dan Bay De Noc was a little better to me we caught 2 fish out of 3bites one got off half way up. the small one was 3 and a half pounds and the other was 30 and a half inches and weighed 10 pounds. Pictures to come in the near future. | |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Butch,
Nice fish 
Dan,
Well, what can you say? At least you got all your bad luck out of the way in one trip. Things can only go uphill from there....add any cliche that feels appropriate I hope your clients understood.
Thanks for sharing the bad day. Too often we'll try to cover days like that, but it's a relief to know it happens to everyone every now and again. | |
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Location: lake huron | that sucks ! | |
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Location: Neenah, WI | Well Dan, at least you still have your sense of humor intact!!!! Keep your chin up. | |
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| Well Dan we could have some laughs here with everyone elses BAD DAYs, so I`ll start,...I go out from Linwood and fish the morning, lose 2 beauties at the hole, come back for the evening bite and catch one 17 incher ( oh yea I`m in a little contest that goes ,biggest, smallest walley, or perch.) so I says heck this could be smallest......... as the evening progresses I see I have only so much time to get into shore, make the drive back so I decide to leave, oops fish ON!!!! after fighting this BIG EYE she has her way and gets away, now I`m getting late, head in, break a bungie on the way and have to stop and re-tie, head in again, the other bungie breaks, re-tie again, make the turn off the ice to go park the machine, but wait, what the heck, is that MY ICE AUGER passing me going down the road !!!!!! YUP!!!! look back and my box fell off, breaking the ski, the auger smacked on the top, breaking the recoil unit, my lures and poles were all over the road........and you thought this only happens to YOU.... Afer you settle down you got to laugh about it....Heck you could have had to come back and fish your machine out of the water ! | |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Dale - 2/19/2005 5:27 AM
Well Dan, at least you still have your sense of humor intact!!!! Keep your chin up.
{Quote}....Heck you could have had to come back and fish your machine out of the water !
That was two years ago that that hapened Terry. 
And Yup, your right Dale. And that fact even kinda surprises me.
There was yet another facit to our doomed trip that I did not mention last night. And compounded with everything else, had me really thinking mother nature was actually conspiring to kill me yesterday.
I've been ice fishing for about 47 years now, but I've never been on ice that made as much noise and had as much movement as the ice did yesterday. And these were not expansion cracks, that I actually like to hear when it's making more ice. It was so severe yesterday, that it had me up on my feet about three times ready to hit my (heater widened door) a runnin.
Water jump straight out of our holes at least 2 times, one crack exploded right in one of my clietns holes, and at one point the rumble of the moving ice (like some ancient volcano) lasted 5 minutes as it grumbled down the shoreline. The best explanation I can give is this. When we started fishing we were in 15 1/2FOW. When we packed up to leave, we were in 14FOW.
Edited by walleye express 2/19/2005 8:30 AM
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Location: Westland, Mich. | glad you got this out of the way this weekend and not next, lol . some people would go hide after a day like that, i'm sure it has to rank right up there with the worst days ever. | |
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| Murphy's Law was in full force! | |
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Location: Neenah, WI | IMHO Murphy was an optimist. | |
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