I loved to skate as a kid & my brothers had a hockey rink in our backyard that my dad made for them. Guys live & breathe hockey up there on the border. I can remember not having enough sense to come in out of the cold & crying as my feet thawed when I finally did. Dumbass.

I have a pond here but it doesn't get cold enough for thick ice.

Photo from last winter ~

i'm only a mile from the ocean, and know what you mean about its effects.
but it IS New England, and we get arctic air masses sometimes, such as this weekend. i'll bet i see a lot of ice fishing, but there is no way i'd sit out there and freeze my bazoongas off for a frozen fish!
here's 2 of my sons with their ice-fishing catch years ago.

well that was a nice comment Cracker, so i shall wax poetic...of course Robert Frost is a New England favorite~~

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

(01-22-2011, 10:51 PM)Maggot Wrote: That reminds me to get out and get my fishing license. I like ice fishing just not @ -30 below that just hurts thinking about it.

Inside an ice shanty ~ Pretty cool, huh?

it has no way been cold enough consistently to go out on the ice. :(

any ice fishing up there Maggot?



SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. – A 27-year-old man died after falling through the ice while snowmobiling in Dudley, Mass.

Richard Redfield and two friends were snowmobiling on a pond when they fell through the ice and into the freezing water.

Redfield was submerged in the 30F to 40F water for at least 15 minutes and was unconscious when he was pulled from the pond.




“Each winter, injuries from hypothermia are reported, in addition to skaters and ice fishermen falling through ice, boaters and canoeists overturning in their crafts, and people chasing their unleashed pets onto the ice,” Massachusetts Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said in a statement last Tuesday. “There are several variables that affect the strength of ice on bodies of water, so many that no ice can ever be declared completely safe, especially running water in streams, brooks, rivers … The only truly safe ice is at your local skating rink.”