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Maine’s idea of a good time.

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Maine winters can be long, and out here in the country you take your entertainment where you can find it.

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Often times, that’s on a frozen river.

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Smelt, a small oily fish people enjoy fried…

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… run thus time of year and intrepid Mainers set up ice fishing shacks.

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Sitting in a plywood box in sub zero temps staring at a hole in the ice isn’t my idea of a good time.

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But to each their own.

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21 thoughts on “Maine’s idea of a good time.”

  1. My partner went ice fishing in Northern Ontario one time and he said he had no idea how loud ice sounds at night when you’re sleeping. It was an overnight trip… Imagine hearing the noise of cracking and the whooshing of water from underneath you and not knowing really what’s happening…

    Not my idea of fun either. 😃

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  2. Nor mine. I never understood the appeal, although if you were on the fence about the whole endeavor, today’s ice houses can be pretty fancy. In fact, I just looked online to see HOW fancy. Holy trout! They’re like little cabins now, replete with kitchens, dinette-style booths, poker tables, and TVs. I thought the idea was to fish (and have a structure light enough to not break through the ice), but what do I know?

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  4. Ice fishing is the winter pastime of many around here. Guys are out when I’d be afraid to walk on the ice, it’s so thin. Shanties can be a nylon pop-up that is removed every day, or a barn mahal. Sturgeon fishing is the opposite end of the spectrum from smelt – you need a mighty big hole to get a sturgeon out of the ice. We even have a musical devoted to ice fishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGb031cOCA (As well as a song by Lou and Peter Berryman to the tune of “La Cucaracha” – “Up in Wisconsin, up in Wisconsin/The weather isn’t very nice/Up in Wisconsin, Up in Wisconsin/They gotta fish right through the ice.”)

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    1. Ha!
      Love the song.
      We have sturgeon a little north of us, but I don’t think they ice fish them. Here it’s land-locked salmon, lake trout, brook trout, cusk, smelt and white fish.
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    1. When I spent 90 days on the Ross Ice Shelf near Mt. Erebus in the Arctic, the Russian soldiers showed us how to use C4 to blow holes in the thick ice so we could ice fish. It was a “blast”! (Pun intended.)

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