UP Trip

TinyTucky · Jan 11, 2023

Went up to the UP with a couple buddies in search of ice and walleyes. Found both. We had a great time and didn’t have any hiccups on our end, but some random dude did. We spent 5ish hours trying to get his rig out. Broke 2 steel cable winches, one ice anchor cable and the whole front end of dudes CanAm starting moving in ways that it shouldn’t move. I learned that I will never ever ever have tracks on a machine ever. Fugg allllll of that, I don’t care how good they are in the snow, if there’s too much snow for wheels I’ll sit in the cabin and drink.

jagermeister · Jan 11, 2023

Man that’s awesome. Looks like you guys had a really fun trip. What lake were you fishing?

Tracks on an atv or utv are actually really impressive. Just don’t get them stuck in a frozen lake. Lol

brock ratcliff · Jan 11, 2023

I’ve enjoyed the daily updates from saggy sack. It appears you guys had a great trip! I think it’s crazy the variety of fish you ice fishing nut jobs catch on the same bait. Having never done it, I love to hear about these ice adventures. But as the fool with the sunken Can Am can attest, I don’t think I need to get started doing it.
Glad you guys had a fun and safe trip!

giles · Jan 12, 2023

Best way I've seen it done is to roll them out sideways. Plastic damage is usually less than the track/front end damage.

Nice feeeesh! Levi will be happy that Stashbag is growing it back

Sauger · Jan 12, 2023

Nice fish. I had a rig like that in AK aand when they get stuck.....they are the biggest pain in the ass.

TinyTucky · Jan 12, 2023

Few more pics I have on my phone, think there may be more on my fancy pants camera.

@jagermeister we spent all of our days except 1 on South Manistique and 1 day on Little Bay De Noc. And I totally understand how bad ass tracks are, but I’m a prepare for the worst type of guy and I’d be just as sad as buddy if I put my shit through the ice with them and have my rig start getting pulled in half lol, I don’t think you’d have the same issue with tires? But, I also don’t drag 2000-2500lbs of shit onto 8+/-“ of shit ice so I guess I’d never have to worry about it lol.