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Posted: 1/19/2013 9:17:00 PM EDT

Today was fun bitter cold, with 45+mph gusts most of the afternoon! wind chills registered about 25 below, while the air temp hovered around 23 above. The cold was not bad, the wind kept blowing people around because there were a lot of exposed ice!

Fun watching drunks trying to walk around the place! I got no fish....

This is the $150,000 Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravangza that is hosted every January with 150 prizes, 25th place wins ATV, which a good friend of mine won it! With a 1.23lbs walleye (yes that a little sized wally!)

This pilot was very skilled! He flew around all day for the media

7 mile drive across lake to avoid the traffic!

At this point the wind shifted directions and was plowing my right side, which half way I would be mostly crabbing to maintain the direction I needed to go!

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:20:52 PM EDT

[#1]

Looks fun.

I was born there ... and yes, I'm glad we moved. I remember the dumpster races at my father's plant. After work they'd get two fullsize roll-around dumpsters and race them across the back of the factory in the wind.

Going to be 74 degrees and sunny tomorrow a bit warmer come Monday.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:22:32 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Looks fun.

I was born there ... and yes, I'm glad we moved. I remember the dumpster races at my father's plant. After work they'd get two fullsize roll-around dumpsters and race them across the back of the factory in the wind.

Going to be 74 degrees and sunny tomorrow a bit warmer come Monday.

Winter winds here can get powerful and fierce! I bet that was fun racing the dumpsters!

Its going to get much colder monday here. highs of -10 with lows of -35!

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:23:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Fuck. That. Shit.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:28:16 PM EDT

[#4]

couple more pictures!

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:28:45 PM EDT

[#5]

I went bear hunting in Minnesota several years ago and we stayed at the Lake of The Woods Resort, right on the lake.

They had a cartoon on the wall of both winter fishing and summer fishing. The summer pic had the fisherman shivering in a heavy coat and wind blowing and the winter pic had him sitting in a house with a heater in shorts and short sleeve shirt on the frozen lake.

lol

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:29:43 PM EDT

[#6]

I have customers in Minnesota, Alaska, and... Texas.

Guess who only gets visited in the Winter?

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:30:25 PM EDT

[#7]

That all seems remarkably stupid.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:30:31 PM EDT

[#8]

OP's never been to Wisconsin...

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:31:29 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Looks fun.

I was born there ... and yes, I'm glad we moved. I remember the dumpster races at my father's plant. After work they'd get two fullsize roll-around dumpsters and race them across the back of the factory in the wind.

Going to be 74 degrees and sunny tomorrow a bit warmer come Monday.

I want it to stay cold. lol

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:31:32 PM EDT

[#10]

I am not excited for Monday. I can handle the cold but a high that is below zero is ridiculous. Looks like it was fun anyway.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:33:00 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
OP's never been to Wisconsin...

I have, and it can get bad I know it.

Today was not the worst weather we have experienced though. It was really nice today, never got cold, quite a easy day than i have experienced.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:34:04 PM EDT

[#12]

Nice

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:34:10 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
OP's never been to Wisconsin...

I have, and it can get bad I know it.

Today was not the worst weather we have experienced though. It was really nice today, never got cold, quite a easy day than i have experienced.

I was just saying you guys aren't the only ones that would be out in the cold ice fishing.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:35:19 PM EDT

[#14]

They must be mad

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:36:38 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
OP's never been to Wisconsin...

I have, and it can get bad I know it.

Today was not the worst weather we have experienced though. It was really nice today, never got cold, quite a easy day than i have experienced.

I was just saying you guys aren't the only ones that would be out in the cold ice fishing.

true!

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:43:12 PM EDT

[#16]

You fellas rock!

It's great to see you out having a great time and enjoying the weather. Thanks for sharing.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:44:45 PM EDT

[#17]

I'm heading to the Devils lake one next weekend. I'm gonna get me a pickup.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:48:18 PM EDT

[#18]

Not too bad around Duluth today. I went cross country skiing in Brule WI before the wind started. I love fishing, but ice fishing bores me. I can't sit still.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:51:56 PM EDT

[#19]

I get invited every winter to go ice fishing in Minnesota. There's no fuckin way.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:52:26 PM EDT

[#20]

Nope.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:54:56 PM EDT

[#21]

Viking DNA keeps you warm.

Posted: 1/19/2013 9:57:29 PM EDT

[#22]

Can't be much colder than my wife's feet.

Posted: 1/19/2013 10:01:45 PM EDT

[#23]

Cold keeps away the riff raff

Posted: 1/19/2013 10:06:05 PM EDT

[#24]

WTF IS ALL THAT WHITE STUFF?????

Posted: 1/19/2013 10:08:14 PM EDT

[#25]

People that have never been ice fishing freak out when they see you having a bonfire on the lake.

Totally not looking forward to Monday, I hate messing with frozen shit. Everything at work is big, made of metal and lives outside. Makes for a real long work day.

BTW the first pic is fantastic.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:01:59 AM EDT

[#26]

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People that have never been ice fishing freak out when they see you having a bonfire on the lake.

Totally not looking forward to Monday, I hate messing with frozen shit. Everything at work is big, made of metal and lives outside. Makes for a real long work day.

BTW the first pic is fantastic.

yes! bonfire on the lake is fun, plenty of room for everyone!

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:08:16 AM EDT

[#27]

Just hell fuck no way.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:08:30 AM EDT

[#28]

No houses? Yeah fuck a bunch of that.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:10:26 AM EDT

[#29]

And I thought I had something to grip about concerning the weather here. Never mind.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:10:57 AM EDT

[#30]

We would have contests to see who was "man" enough to jump into Lake Superior in the middle of July and August. That thing is cold all year round and you needed liquid courage to jump in beyond your thighs.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:12:44 AM EDT

[#31]

23 is pretty warm for January.

This coming week would have been more entertaining with temps well below zero.

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Posted: 1/20/2013 10:14:47 AM EDT

[#32]

I pretty much live to fish but, FUCK THAT!!!!! Glad I live in the south and have some occasional 50-70 degree days during winter.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:15:02 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
We would have contests to see who was "man" enough to jump into Lake Superior in the middle of July and August. That thing is cold all year round and you needed liquid courage to jump in beyond your thighs.

July and August? try in middle of winter! we have polar plunge in MN where groups raise money and jump in a hole cut out of the lake!

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:17:45 AM EDT

[#34]

Growing up in Wisconsin, that brings me back...

Sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago, then hitting Waverly Beach for some burgers

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:19:15 AM EDT

[#35]

whoa. that looks soo cool .

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:20:17 AM EDT

[#36]

Yeah, it's gonna be 75 here today.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:20:58 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Cold keeps away the riff raff

My exact line about Montana and Alaska when I go up there in the winter time for work/pleasure.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:22:07 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
OP's never been to Wisconsin...

I have, and it can get bad I know it.

Today was not the worst weather we have experienced though. It was really nice today, never got cold, quite a easy day than i have experienced.

I was just saying you guys aren't the only ones that would be out in the cold ice fishing.

Coldest I've fished in was -16... It sucked balls, but the bite was on!!!

It was literally soooo cold, that the fish froze almost instantly after throwing them onto the ice.

When I came home, and defrosted them in the sink... The fuckers came back to life!!!! Craziest shit I've ever witnessed!

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:24:12 AM EDT

[#39]

I see a bunch of people who are too nuts to own guns or work in important jobs.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:26:15 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Viking DNA keeps you warm.

Actually it is the liquor they are drinking, not really keep them warm they are just too buzzed to care.

Fishing the sport of alcoholics everywhere....and if you aint drinking...you are just hiding from your wife.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:27:45 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
I see a bunch of people who are too nuts to own guns or work in important jobs.

well then you would be surprised that bunch of them were realtors, doctors, firemen, police officers, military guys.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:27:49 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Viking DNA keeps you warm.

Actually it is the liquor they are drinking, not really keep them warm they are just too buzzed to care.

Fishing the sport of alcoholics everywhere....and if you aint drinking...you are just hiding from your wife.

Ummmmm... Sounds like euphoria to me!

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:30:39 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Viking DNA keeps you warm.

Actually it is the liquor they are drinking, not really keep them warm they are just too buzzed to care.

Fishing the sport of alcoholics everywhere....and if you aint drinking...you are just hiding from your wife.

I saw a lot of beer cans get blown with the wind, I wonder how many beer cans would be found on the shoreline at the end of the wind path!

Of course the Jaycees have bunch of people working after everyone leaves, to clean up all the mess. Majority of the people working there are volunteers. I need to take one year and do my part volunteering.

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:31:42 AM EDT

[#44]

I love winter! Cool ice fishing pics, wish I was out there with ya!

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:32:13 AM EDT

[#45]

what's the rule of thumb for temps and ice thickness to drive on it?

Posted: 1/20/2013 10:33:38 AM EDT

[#46]

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what's the rule of thumb for temps and ice thickness to drive on it?

For temps, anything under 32 degrees is freezing nothing to worry, but if it gets above its not really a big concern unless it skyrockets to 70 degrees. I have been on the ice when it was 55-60 degrees outside, sure it was slippery and wet. It all depends on how thick the ice is. Some spots could melt faster than other spots.