Etiquette, Some of us are new and want to know

Etiquette is everything, whether its on the water or off. Respect others and your surroundings.


On another note, Great job with the videos Steve, they look good. Keeping me sane until I can get out on the ice myself... hopefully the ice sticks around for my first trip of the season this weekend.

and holes!!

Great points guys. The Moto is it you can bring it you can take it home. Unfortunately you only have to go to the local McDonald's and watch some idiot open his car door and drop his garbage on the pavement not ten feet from the waste can. Unfortunately that mentality walks out onto the ice as well.

Steve has some other good videos. Watch them all. Very helpful guy .

I rarely try and fish outside of the hut for this reason.... happens to much

I freeze them for the next outting and then I only buy a small amount of alive bait if any at all. Dead bait works real well and frozen minnows are easier to handle and cut, less mess. Also frozen minnows are a little more boyuant and when you drop them in on a jig it almost flutters down. I used a northlands forage minnow tipped with frozen minnow chunks on Saturday with good success. I also was chumming somewhat with partly unfrozen chunks as they float down real slow, tends to keep the schools under me.

This is the only reason i fish in my pop-up. I hate when you get a fish and people just show up on sled stop check their phone like 20 ft from you. I know all their doing is putting the GPS location down.

Grinds my gears so bad especially when they act like they aren't doing that.

I generally try to be as far from anyone as possible when fishing with the exception of fishing alone. I like to stay in hollering distance in case anything went wrong. Last night on cooch I set up near the only pop up out there but stayed over 100ft away and when I went to say hi and apologize for being so close they didn't know I was there so I didn't feel as bad.

Yes I brine and colour my dead ones and use them again with good success.

I always set up at least or more then 100 ft away and I even go as far as before i drill any holes ask the nearest guy or guys if I'm good where I am because I bring my Vexliar and don't want to cause any interference with other fisherman and their sonar's or flasher that's just me.....

One thing that a lot of people aren't aware of is fishing around ice hut operator's huts. You cannot set up close enough so as to interfere with their operation. I've see many guys go out and set up within 10 ft of an operator's hut, some probably to get out of the wind others because they figure that the operator is set up there, there must be fish. so if you're fishing in 50FOW then you must be more the 100ft away from their hut so that lines don't get tangled.

As has been said many times already, if you can take it out with you then you can take it back with you and if you see other stuff while walking around pick it up too.

Save yourselves the headaches........STAY OFF MY LAKE!

Is there a rule of thumb for determining what is "too close"? I'm always weary of infringing on someone else's space, but at the same time I try to be near people when I'm out by myself, for safety reasons.

This post has been edited by grabo447 on Jan 10, 2017 - 02:10 pm

Steve Rowbotham mentioned in his video that minimum distance should be 2x the water depth to avoid sonar noise issues, as well as fish running / tangling.

Another one that annoys me is that one person who comes out with his buddy and not really fish but loves to zip around in circles with the sled around everyone that is fishing.

Yes , your right that pisses me off as well and you would think the one who fishes should either tell his buddy not too or don't bring buddies like that who don't want to fish .......