Stay off the ice! 3 Trucks and TT go through ice into lake.

am1958 wrote:
....overall, you are wasting energy...

Especially if you sink your truck and TT in the lake....

Unless you are ice fishing for survival it's a stupid pastime... Little more energy can be gained from the meat normally caught than was expended catching it... In a survival situation that can help you keep your "bank account" closer to the black but, overall, you are wasting energy...

colliehauler wrote:
You can't fix stupid.

X2!

Just because the ice is relatively flat on the top doesn't mean it's flat (at all) on the bottom.

Chum lee

My father use to deliver sand to cottages, to make or fix a beach, on a couple local lakes where the only access was by water. in the 80's was the last time I used a tractor to clean the ice for the kids to skate. Just like everything else, Ice ain't what it use to be.

Even in the dead of winter going on the ice is a risk. You better know the lake very well. In northern Michigan the lake I grew up on had a current near a dam on the lake. Even in the coldest of winters it was not save to drive a vehicle or even a snowmobile anywhere near the dam. Have seen many people go in the lake during the winter as they did not now that this area never froze.

Driving on ice is scary. I don't do it.

That kind of fishing danger is for people who can handle a lot more cold than I. My ice-fishing shack will be on pontoons, and have 4 heaters. The front and rear outboard motors would look like midget snowmobiles.

I've walked on ice a foot thick and clear as glass. Very, very spooky

We learned our lesson before anybody got hurt thank goodness. We were running snowmobiles on the lake and had a river of water follow us everywhere. Managed to get five machines stuck but everybody got off safely. However, every year somebody gets killed falling through the ice or by avalanches.