Did you ever go ice fishing?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (201706)
United States
November 22, 2025 5:34pm CST
I grew up in NW PA on the Great Lakes. That is ice fishing country. Due to climate change the bay isn't always suitable for ice fishing, but in days gone by it would freeze over every winter. I went ice fishing with my dad a couple of times. The first time I was about six and probably had 10 pairs of socks on plus my regular clothes boots and snowsuit. I don't recall fishing then just sat on my sled and watched.
I went again with him when I was 14. That time I caught a fish. It was cold, but exciting. That is the only fish I ever caught other than a few little ones..from"chumming" even though I have been fishing several times Any fishing or ice fishing for you?
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@Deepizzaguy (117550)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Nov
Since it seldom snows in south Louisiana, I have never been fishing on water or ice.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
Well regular fishing shouldn't be out
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@GardenGerty (167308)
• United States
22 Nov
My mom's parents had stocked ponds on their property. Family would fish. I liked to go and sit. I did not like to use live bait. I quit fishing when they made the rule that if you caught something you had to kill and clean it. I had caught a few things over the years.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
Yeah, it can be good Here at the lake I can fish anytime I want, but haven't in years Sometimes friend and I have done casting for exercise though
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
You have to use the right bait for what you are fishing for
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@id_peace (16893)
• Singapore
23 Nov
@snowy22315 I had the bait bites but it left the hook before I can bring it up to the shore.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
It's OK if it isn't bitterly cold out
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
25 Nov
@porwest not if it is already frozen solid.
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@porwest (111875)
• United States
25 Nov
@snowy22315 I suppose if you are on the ice, having bitter cold might be...helpful. lol
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@MarieCoyle (53672)
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23 Nov
Yes, I have been ice fishing. With my Dad in Alaska(I was very young and wrapped up as you describe!) with one of the grandfather's on Sunset Lake, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In Canada once or twice, but I cannot recall the location exactly. On Sunset Lake, one of the uncles had a fishing shack (think Grumpy Old Men, without the music!) so even though it was very cold, it helped to be out of the wind in the shack. I recall that we usually caught walleye, perch, and pike for the most part.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
Yeah, everybody who ice fishes a lot seems to have a shanty. I was talking down below..about a funny home improvement where they made the ice hole in the shanty too large.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
@MarieCoyle It was a funny episode..made me laugh out loud.
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@MarieCoyle (53672)
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23 Nov
@snowy22315
Haha, I read that and immediately pictured the shanty tumbling in the ice hole! 
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@May2k8 (19579)
• Indonesia
23 Nov
@snowy22315 chewy and maybe I've forgotten the taste, that was decades ago.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
That wouldn't be a thing in Georgia.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54093)
• United States
23 Nov
I have never been ice fishing, but went with my uncle when I was a child and went with my husband once.
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@RasmaSandra (93232)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
I never have but that is a popular winter thing to do in Riga Latvia, Once the Daugava River freezes completley every day there are people on the ice fishing,
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
Yes, I think it is practiced in any cold climate.
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
It's different. The operative word though is cold. In areas where people ice fish a lot they have shanty's on the ice. There is a really funny home improvement episode where they make the hole they cut in the ice too big, and equipment starts falling in, and maybe a person..
@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
Another thing they do some places in the north is ice boating..lt is sailboat gliding across the ice
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@JudyEv (369876)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Nov
@snowy22315 How cool would that be? And here we have 'yachting' on salt lakes. lol The yachts are on wheels but I think they're powered by the wind like real yachts.
@Dreamerby (9854)
• Calcutta, India
23 Nov
Wow that is such a great experience. I have never gone fishing. As a child, I used to hate the fishy smell...I still do lol. I like cooked fish though
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
I don't know about great, but it's something to do during cold season.
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@wolfgirl569 (128340)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Nov
Never went ice fishing. Wasn't a fan of regular fishing either
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@snowy22315 (201706)
• United States
23 Nov
I like fishing to a certain extent..but probably not killing fish
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@LindaOHio (211571)
• United States
23 Nov
I've been fishing but not ice fishing.
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