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Frank in Colorado said:
Canadian fishing... those crazy Canucks!

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My poor southern wife's first trip to Maine was in the middle of February for my brother's funeral.
As we were traveling through Massachusetts, she asked me a question.
"Honey, the land is pretty hilly and rolling around here. Why is that land over there so flat and what are those little houses?".
"Honey, that's a lake and those are fishing shacks.".
My response got the first extended curse I heard from her!
Not the last one in the 20+ years that we've been together, but definitely the first!
 
Phil Perrin said:
My poor southern wife's first trip to Maine was in the middle of February for my brother's funeral.
As we were traveling through Massachusetts, she asked me a question.
"Honey, the land is pretty hilly and rolling around here. Why is that land over there so flat and what are those little houses?".
"Honey, that's a lake and those are fishing shacks.".
My response got the first extended curse I heard from her!
Not the last one in the 20+ years that we've been together, but definitely the first!
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While I was living in the Chicago area, I worked with a gent who haled from Maine. His first wife was a Chicago native. On their first trip back to Maine, he made a casual remark about finally getting to see forests again. "What do you mean? We have forests in Chicago." "No, you don't understand.... those are forest preserves. I mean a real forest, where you travel miles in any direction and not cross another road or see anybody else."
 
On the larger lakes in MN i.e. Mille Lacs once ice is in, the haul out the fish houses. They actually plow streets on the ice, with actual names and give the houses addresses. It's all pretty funny. Years ago my father in law was showing me an ad for one of the fish houses up there. This thing read like a regular real estate listing. There were full photos and everything. It had multiple bedrooms, oak cabinets, hardwood floors, cathedral ceiling 2 bathrooms and so on. The price was crazy low and I asked him why so cheap? He then mentioned to me to look at the large skids it was mounted on. Here I thought it was a lake cabin. And he's laughing his butt off because I did not realize any of this MN custom/way of life in winter. Than he showed me how they do things. Re reserved "places" once ice is in and all. They really do take it very seriously there. BTW this thing had a fireplace, 90+ furnace and every creature comfort you could ask for. He said some folks even forward their mail to their ice houses LOL
 
LMichaels said:
On the larger lakes in MN i.e. Mille Lacs once ice is in, the haul out the fish houses. They actually plow streets on the ice, with actual names and give the houses addresses. It's all pretty funny. Years ago my father in law was showing me an ad for one of the fish houses up there. This thing read like a regular real estate listing. There were full photos and everything. It had multiple bedrooms, oak cabinets, hardwood floors, cathedral ceiling 2 bathrooms and so on. The price was crazy low and I asked him why so cheap? He then mentioned to me to look at the large skids it was mounted on. Here I thought it was a lake cabin. And he's laughing his butt off because I did not realize any of this MN custom/way of life in winter. Than he showed me how they do things. Re reserved "places" once ice is in and all. They really do take it very seriously there. BTW this thing had a fireplace, 90+ furnace and every creature comfort you could ask for. He said some folks even forward their mail to their ice houses LOL
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This year has been too warm for a lot of the ice house activity, I'm hearing a lot of lakes just are not iced over enough.
 
LMichaels said:
Weird, people out all over the place on lakes here (though honestly I would not step foot on one)
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Comparatively speaking, it takes a lot less ice to walk on, compared to snowmobiles, UTVs, cars, pickups, etc. Farther north, even medium duty trucks see some ice time. And every year, I hear about vehicles plunging through the ice, frequently near flowing water like river inlets. Where I grew up in MI's Lower Peninsula, walking on the lakes wasn't generally a problem, and snowmobile traffic was pretty frequent as well. Vehicles? Very uncommon. That's the difference having Lake Michigan up wind, it keeps the Lower Peninsula a good 5-10 degrees warmer in the winter, and that makes a pretty significant difference.
 
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