| Ice fishing is perhaps the most dangerous type of | | | | lethal possibility. |
| fishing. It contains many risks for the fisherman due | | | | Your shack is not a perfect rescue from all weather |
| to the weather conditions. If you are heading for this | | | | conditions, a blizzard may cut your way and you may |
| eskimo sport anyway, you'd better read carefully | | | | get stuck in the middle of nowhere in the dreadful |
| through the following tips. | | | | cold. When ice fishing, you need to pay special |
| First of all, ice fishing is extremely dependent on | | | | attention to the stove or the other heating device |
| weather. This means that before going on the open | | | | within the shack. Make sure you have enough wood. |
| ice, you need to have supplied yourself with many | | | | Take even more than enough to reduce the risk of |
| useful cold-protecting materials. Of highest importance | | | | freezing to death in an unpredicted blizzard. The |
| is to have a properly constructed ice shack. The | | | | other rule for stoves when ice fishing is to make |
| shack can become your only rescue place from the | | | | sure the heat doesn't thaw the ice underneath. Put |
| cold outside: ice fishing leads to health problems such | | | | your stove on a proper place where no dangers of |
| as hypothermia if you don't have a warm and cosy | | | | heating the ice surface exist. Don't stay too long in |
| shack. | | | | the open when ice fishing: you have to go into the |
| The second thing you need to have in mind before | | | | shack periodically and check if everything is under |
| going ice fishing is to carefully check the weather | | | | control. The health risks that ice fishing puts |
| conditions. Walking on thin ice is a beautiful metaphor | | | | fishermen into, can also be reduced by regularly |
| that can easily become a brutal reality if you don't | | | | warming yourself. |
| consult with the weather prognosis. Bear in mind the | | | | If still not dissuaded by these strict safety |
| condition of the ice. Be careful where you put your | | | | regulations, you may try ice fishing and discover how |
| ice shack, and double check the ice surface before | | | | enjoyable it can be. It is really fun and exhilarating as |
| going too far. Ice fishing is dangerous because | | | | long as you have in mind and prevent the things |
| sometimes winter conditions change too fast. You | | | | which may go wrong. |
| have to be aware that a winter blizzard would be a | | | | |