Rick P
Member
This is my friend Lydia, she is sweet as pie and somewhere in her mid to late 70's. I say "somewhere in her mid to late 70's" because when she was born her family still lead a nomadic lifestyle and Eskimos didn't really keep track of birthdays the way you and I do today.
Just got off the phone with her youngest boy.......they are on the way too fish camp. She will be living out there in a wall tent, just as Gunther and I did when we visited. Except that the highs are in the low single digits right now! And there are only a couple hours of daylight! She is ice fishing, her and her son will drill a series of holes 50 feet across a section of river then use hooked poles to run a rope under the ice. Once the rope reaches the last hole they will pull a net threw UNDER the ice!!!! The nets will soak overnight but she will have to go out every couple hours to clear ice form the end holes! In the morning she will have several hundered pounds of fish and net to pull threw that hole.......her boy Joe stays around to help pull nets.....now that she is getting a bit older.
So next time your feeling chilled or you want to call it early because it's too damn cold remeber.......there is a great grand mother standing in pitch black pulling fish out of a hole in the ice in sub zerro weather with a 70 mph wind wipping the gear around! And she went out there because she thinks it is FUN!!!!!!!!The sun will set for 3 months in a few weeks, didnt stop her last year!
Just got off the phone with her youngest boy.......they are on the way too fish camp. She will be living out there in a wall tent, just as Gunther and I did when we visited. Except that the highs are in the low single digits right now! And there are only a couple hours of daylight! She is ice fishing, her and her son will drill a series of holes 50 feet across a section of river then use hooked poles to run a rope under the ice. Once the rope reaches the last hole they will pull a net threw UNDER the ice!!!! The nets will soak overnight but she will have to go out every couple hours to clear ice form the end holes! In the morning she will have several hundered pounds of fish and net to pull threw that hole.......her boy Joe stays around to help pull nets.....now that she is getting a bit older.
So next time your feeling chilled or you want to call it early because it's too damn cold remeber.......there is a great grand mother standing in pitch black pulling fish out of a hole in the ice in sub zerro weather with a 70 mph wind wipping the gear around! And she went out there because she thinks it is FUN!!!!!!!!The sun will set for 3 months in a few weeks, didnt stop her last year!
