Entertainment at the ramp in FH

[TONGA]

3:00 PM stopped by the ramp in Fair Haven to see if anyone had got brave,,,sure enough 3 people out on the ice fishing.
We sat for a few to see if they were getting any fish..
Then we see 2 people with a 4 wheeler pulling a trailer with a shanty on top heading for the ramp..
Someone flags them down,,,I think to talk them out of it but nothing doing and down the ramp they went!,,,they got about 7 or 8 feet before one of the trailer tires went through,,then for a 1/2 hour they traded soakers while they would get one tire out then the other in ,and out ,and in. they managed to get the 4 wheeler and the trailer back up the ramp and were in the process of setting the shanty about 20 feet from shore when we left

[deepwoods]

A future Darwin award winner in training. :lol:

[JEFFK]

Here I thought I had it bad to start the hard water season :dizzy: :dizzy:

[gsepan]

How about the other 3 you saw fishing... See'um pulling any fish???
Enquiring minds want to know.

[lawnboy]

What were the chances they were blond also?????


That reminds me of the story I was told today and over the weekend…A younger kid was up from the south and had never seen snow or ice. He was so excited that he started to head out in front of the day sail at metro on the ice. In the end, he was in up to his thighs.



In addition, that story reminds me of the one today. Two guys at the boat launch at metro trying to cross over to dog island. The one guy had an ice spud and would work his way out a few feet hit the ice and then run back to shore. Where he would turn around and make his way back out a few feet further and then run back to shore. This went on until he was a ways out and chopped a hole in the ice which he lowered his spud all the way in and most of his rope and held it up to himself seeing that it was way over his head he ran back to shore.

[neversunk]

Brilliant!!! So now we're gonna have a thin spot with the ice all broken up in front of the launch......friggin rocket scientists!!!!! :rant:

[shadow7663]

I wish people would think about their personal safety and others before thinking of how fun it is to go icefishing. there is no fish in world worth risking getting hurt or losing your life over............

Please be safe and think SAFETY FIRST!!!!!!!!!

[johnny white]

amazing ...

[Fried Fillets]

I'd be leary (sp?) just walking on the ice this early. Who in the heck thinks that the ice is thick enough to support a 4 wheeler and 2 morons. :bash:

[neversunk]

at least the water there is only two foot deep threre right now....too bad it wasnt deeper so it woulda frozen their crotch....maybe then they would have learned better..... :lol:

[Ed Stringer]

Some peoples kids.

[BilgeRat]

It's people like that, that give us ice fisherman a bad name.

I cast a second vote for the early season darwin award. :lol:

[hiddenlake]

should have filmed it, might have some extra $$ now :lol:

[PITBULL]

3:00 PM stopped by the ramp in Fair Haven to see if anyone had got brave,,,sure enough 3 people out on the ice fishing.
We sat for a few to see if they were getting any fish..
Then we see 2 people with a 4 wheeler pulling a trailer with a shanty on top heading for the ramp..
Someone flags them down,,,I think to talk them out of it but nothing doing and down the ramp they went!,,,they got about 7 or 8 feet before one of the trailer tires went through,,then for a 1/2 hour they traded soakers while they would get one tire out then the other in ,and out ,and in. they managed to get the 4 wheeler and the trailer back up the ramp and were in the process of setting the shanty about 20 feet from shore when we left


Hey I know those guys, Next week they are leaving the ATV at home.
They are just gonna drive the F-150. :yikes: :piparty:

[ICEGUY]

Amazing! I wonder if they are related to the two I seen ice fishing on the spillway Monday. :bash:

[neversunk]

They must be related to the guy in the big passenger van that drove past my shanty last january about a mile out from the Fairhaven launch. The ice was 8 inches thick and I got wet from all the water that came up through my hole...and he headed out to thinner ice when he left my spot! Ya think its genetic? :bash: :tdo12:

[TONGA]

quote from gsepan "How about the other 3 you saw fishing... See'um pulling any fish???
Enquiring minds want to know."

did not see one fish

[lawnboy]

I remember seeing that van last year...

[neversunk]

Yea...the guys nuts. Theres no way that big multiseat van did not weigh well over 5000 lbs. The driver alone was darn near 280 and he was carting other guys around in it and did'nt even have the side sliding door or rear doors open in case they all had to do a "bail out". Talk about all of us getting a bad name....he woulda had 4 dead bodies out there if he had gone through and I still cannot believe he did'nt judging by all the cracking of the ice and water coming up thru my hole as he passed about 200 feet away...... :yikes:

[Joe Archer]

I think the important message here for anyone inexperienced with ice fishing first ice is use your spud! On first ice leave the auger at home, and hit every step! <----<<<

[shadow7663]

I think the important message here for anyone inexperienced with ice fishing first ice is use your spud! On first ice leave the auger at home, and hit every step! <----<<<
And dont be like me and forget your spikes every time you go out