Minnesota Radio Announcer Calls Fans 'morons'

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

I frickin' love ice fishing. I'm not a people person so it's perfect for me. I can sit in my shack in silence and catch fish all day with no one coming over to talk about the weather or ask me how it's going. Although every year I get older the more I hate cold. At some point I imagine I'll start hating the cold more than people.

I can’t disagree but it’s not fishing. It’s waiting.

 

[Fryowa]

I can’t disagree but it’s not fishing. It’s waiting.

Not the way I do it. If I'm not catching anything or seeing fish on my Vexilar I'm moving. 90% of my ice fishing is done in a portable flip over shack. When I get to a spot I drill about 8-10 holes and hop from one to the next with electronics to see if I'm marking anything, maybe 5 minutes per hole max. If I find fish in that group I set up shop and go to town. If I don't I move 50-60 feet and repeat. I've fished IGL and NW Iowa long enough that it doesn't take me long to find fish usually.

Now all that said I'm a pan fisherman on the ice. Bluegill, crappie, and yellow bass are what I'm after. There isn't a better eating fish on the planet than a 9" bluegill pulled out of a lake a couple hours prior. Perch are a pain in the ass to clean for the amount of meat around here because we don't get the big size like they have in the Dakotas, and they fight about as hard as UMass does at football. Boring. Yellows are nice because they fight hard and there's no limit in Iowa. Yellows are invasive, eat other fish's eggs, and the DNR wants as many out of the lakes as possible. I'm happy to oblige and there's times between my kid and I we'll pull 150 out in a day. Have burned up a couple electric fillet knives in the past cleaning 200+ fish in one session.

I will agree with you if you're talking walleye, northern, etc. I can't do that because I'm not going to sit on one hole all day for 3 fish. Doesn't excite me and bluegill/crappie are so much better to eat.