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really, no one wants to go and remove the stones from a sunken mishoon? i’ll go. i need a better job. and yes going for a swim in 10 degree water would be a better job. i didn’t think native people ice fished. i thought winter was big game hunting and the warmer weather was for fishing.
Hey Dan,
I do want to try to sink a boat one of these times but I think instead of swimming down to get the stone out. I was thinking of useing cinder block tied with ropes to old bleach bottles as floats so I could just pull up the cinder blocks up. We do have accounts of native ice fishing it was not done alot but it was done. You are right it was big game hunting time in the winter.
wouldn’t a cinder block dig into the wood as you pulled?
COOL topic, Tim!
I wondered why the dugout canoes were not taken all the way out of the water in the winter. A friend told me they might have cracked from drying out. Makes sense.
How heavy are those canoes?
Sometime please tell us more about fishing weirs – where they would be located, etc.
Thanks.
Hey Barbara,
Ya if you take them out of the water they will dry out and crack so thats why we do leave them in the river. I now it donn’t look good for the boats but they are just fine they way they are!
tim, could you direct me to some refrences of ice fishing? is the pic in wilbur’s book accurate?
Hey dan,
I am working on refrences of ice fishing for you. I think the picture’s in wilbur books are the only accurate thing in the books the info is not!
yeah i’ve been told that from alot of people.