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- From: jmd@kastle.Princeton.EDU (John M. Danskin)
- Subject: Re: Vermont icefishing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.223014.13319@Princeton.EDU>
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- Reply-To: jmd@kastle.Princeton.EDU (John M. Danskin)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
- References: <1993Jan14.225440.14011@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> <1993Jan15.150214.8912@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan19.213739.18057@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:30:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.213739.18057@cs.wisc.edu>,
- djansa@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan15.150214.8912@Princeton.EDU>
- jmd@tyrolia.Princeton.EDU (John M. Danskin) writes:
- |> >Is there such a thing as an icefishing guide? What do they do?
- |> >
- |> >As I imagine it, first the guide brings you to the spot on the lake
- |> >where all the other ice-fishers are. Then he/she/it (I said I don't
- know about
- |> >ice fishing guides) drills the holes, sets up your tip ups, sets up a
- |> >folding chair for you, hands you a steaming hot cup of coffee and goes to
- |> >sleep. All for $200/day.
- |>
- |> And how is this different from a "soft" water guide taking you to a spot
- |> on the lake where all the other "soft water"fishers are. Then he/she/it
- |> ( I don't know about "soft" water guides ) rigs up a rod, hands it to you
- |> and sits down in his "captin chair" All that for $200/day....
- |>
- |> ???
- |>
- |> Dean
- |> >
- |> >???
- |> >
- |> >John Danskin |
-
- Well, if you are flyfishing anyway, you end up moving around quite a bit.
- While you are moving around quite a bit, odds are the guide is carrying the
- heavy stuff (i.e. the beer component of lunch).
-
- The guide is helping you figure out what fly to use, and this changes
- throughout the day. The guide is also finding fish to cast to, and generally
- making fun of your casting technique. More traditionally, you and the guide are
- spending a lot of time in a boat, which the guide is paddling, rowing, driving
- or whatever.
-
- Also, it seems that ice fishers like to cluster up more than softwater fishers,
- although a visit to the local Aqueduct on a sunday morning in June might change
- your mind.
-
- Despite my tone, I really was wondering what ice fishing guides do all day.
- To an outsider, ice fishing seems like a sedentary activity where you find
- a spot and stay there all day. From what I have heard, the recomended bait
- is pickled grubs, possibly with a swedish pimple or other lure attached.
- There just doesn't seem to be as much variety in the way people fish, which
- implies that there isn't as much need for a guide. I guess if I was going to
- Vermont for a few days, and wanted to get some ice fishing in, I might try
- to find a guide to set me up in the morning, but then I'd want to get rid of
- (probably) him. I'd hope to end up paying a lot less than $200. Is this what
- people do? What do people do? (Aside from avoiding the guide problem
- altogether.)
-
- John Danskin |
- (609) 258-5386 | Gradual student
- (609) 258-1771 fax | Gradually going insane from a severe lack
- jmd@cs.princeton.edu | fishing.
-