Ice Fishing: Fun Or Torture?

I've never quite answered this question, although I'mstart drinking. And that's precisely what I used to do,
definitely leaning towards torture. There is justand let me tell you something, it made ice fishing fun!
something unsettling about standing on a frozen lakeSitting on the ice, sipping on alcohol, B.S'ing with your
cranking an auger like you're drilling to the center offishing partner, choking down lung darts (or
the earth for a half an hour before the "fishing" cancigarettes-to the uninitiated), and waiting for a fish to
even begin. Then the problem is that you're sweatybite. This scenario isn't so bad, in fact it's really a
from drilling holes in the ice and the air temperature isgood time.
below freezing. These two factors go together likeNow I don't drink anymore. I gave it up for personal
oil and water, and the next thing you know you feelreasons. Hell I figured that I had lived my life for
like a human Popsicle, and you're spending the nexttwenty years while drinking and hadn't progressed
hour trying to warm up.much.
At this point in the ice fishing excursion, it's time to