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[deleted] t1_j86veey wrote

Reply to comment by whaletacochamp in Fisherman dies after falling through ice on Lake Champlain; state urges caution on lakes this weekend by airhogg

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kn4v3VT t1_j88jopc wrote

Ice fishing is going to become a rarity here, I remember whole villages on the lakes of Vermont when I was a kid, and I don’t see them anymore 😔

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whaletacochamp t1_j88qlwc wrote

My dad and I would drive his truck out a mile or so on Shelburne bay at like 3:30/4 on a weekend. He would drill a hole close enough to each door that we could sit in the truck. Bud heavy for him and root beer or Mountain Dew for me. In less than an hour we would catch enough HUGE perch for the whole family to have a fish fry.

Nowadays so many things about this would just not happen. It’s rarely safe enough to drive a truck out onto Shelburne bay these days, drinking and driving is no longer in vogue (probably a good thing), if you DO get out there it will take you all day to catch a few dinky perch….

and this wasn’t even that long ago. 20-25 years. I now have a son of my own and I’m afraid he will never experience ice fishing to any meaningful degree.

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Swimming-Media6543 t1_j88uh04 wrote

I grew up in shelburne as well and I can remember so many people out there in the bay. It’s just sad. At 37 years old to see everything we had as kids go to shit.

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whaletacochamp t1_j890psh wrote

I remember driving out to the breakwater - THE BREAKWATER, routinely with my dads truck. Never in a million years would I do that now.

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Swimming-Media6543 t1_j8910tt wrote

Yea no. I also remember out in the bay by rozzis the people out there the car races the snowmobile races the fishing driving and playing on the ice was something that we just did as a normal kid.

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whaletacochamp t1_j891njh wrote

Yup. Every weekend we were out there either walking or skating by ourselves, on my dad’s snowmobile, in someone’s shanty watching tip ups, launching model rockets, just generally having a blast.

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casewood123 t1_j89o5n1 wrote

We used to drive on from the boat launch in Malletts Bay and come off at the Sandbar. The only problem was if there was too much snow on the ice. Neither of which is an issue anymore.

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casewood123 t1_j89nlp1 wrote

Shelburne bay in early March used to always produce big slabbers.

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whaletacochamp t1_j8abya8 wrote

Born in March and my dad always talks about nailing huge yellow bellied in the days leading up to my birth.

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