ND Snows and Snow

I heard they are going to be at the Ice Fishing Show this weekend. Should be interesting to look at. Maybe a pocket handwarmer is all you need??? ;

Ferny

Don’t know if you knew or not, but they just have a new name. They are Frabill’s ice houses.

They will be at the ice show with Jiffy Augers and Lowrance as part of the Ice-2-The-Max group.

Where’s the ice fishing show this weekend?

St. Paul – RiverCentre

15th Annual St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show

If i and a friend can tug it ourselfs it’s good for us but a four wheeler need to pull it not gunna happen for us good luck out on the ice…

Just got back from our last hurrah to ND. After the 9 hour drive through snow and ice(usually takes us 6 hours) we got our 2 hours of sleep and got to our pre-scouted field before sun-up. We hunted a loafing pond that was surrounded by a cornfield and while it was still 30+ MPH winds and snowing the birds flew. We had no decoys out but did have 2 e-callers, the birds still came in cupped at ranges of 5-35 yards. It was a decently sized pothole(150 yards x 75 yards) that had no ice on it whatsoever, one of the very few around. There were 2 roosting ponds about 1/2 mile on both sides of us and they were feeding in the corn field and then loafing in the pond. We hunted until 10:00 and ended up finding 54 birds. The blowing snow was so bad the we had piles of birds around us and it was tough to find them when we decided to call it a morning. That was our best shoot, but the evening we took 8, the next moring 23 by 10, scouted for our final shoot and on sunday morning we shot 29 before picking up at 9:00. There was no migrating birds until sunday were there was still a NW wind blowing, so we hunted birds that have been there for a while but luckily there were no hunters around burning up the flocks, they were deoying nicely and dying consistantly. The pockets of birds ranged anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 but they were tough to find, some birds were flying 2 miles to feed where other flocks flew across a road.

On to turkeys and trout!

Good to hear someone is still banging away at em. Sounds like a good shoot.
DT

Sounds like a blast (no pun intended, wait it works)

Just one question, what do you do with all those birds ???

I hope this went through and they look o.k. The first one is the first morning, the conditions we drove through was worse than the stuff we hunted in. And then our cleaning porch at our house in ND. There were 41 birds actually in the pile, we just wanted to click and get out of there. We found more on our way out that had sailed and died.