Company is key
I've got it all. Tent, augers, sled, sonar, you name it. Pails of rods and lures galore. What I don't have- and this is the most important component- is a partner or two that want to fish in winter.
We are too far away from a good lake to make a journey just to stand on the ice alone. I can do it with the boat (when there are plenty of anglers willing to come aboard) or wading a stream, but the long timers around here stay home or go to Arizona all winter. There is something tragic about a lone ranger frozen to the pond, wrapped in layers of wool and drinking alone, jigging for perch. Pike are not fish.
The other thing is the squatter's rights assigned to those funny fellers in the little shanty towns. They claim an area of about 300sq.ft. on all sides and are pretty particular who they will let on their patch as a nomad. Leastways around here.
What you want to try is one of those 5000 participant derbies like Jackfish Lake north of Battleford. What a gong show those are; and fun.
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