Ice Fishing Essay

Ice fishing is a winter sport that requires thick ice on frozen lakes, determination, warm clothes, and a whole lot of patients. I have been ice fishing since I was a little kid starting when I was around 7 or 8 my grandfather would take me out on the lake in front of our house every weekend in the winter and slowly teach me the ways and tricks of how to catch large quantities of fish. I am from upstate New York which means our region gets slammed with feet of snow every year and it drops below zero in November which makes the perfect conditions for me to go ice fishing. From the start of around late November to sometimes pushing into early May all the lakes in the area where I live freeze over enough to where you can walk out on in from the shore. One day in the
I grabbed all my gear threw it in the sled and headed out to Glen Lake which is a smaller glacier melt lake which was totally frozen over and i had the benefit of walking right out my door onto the lake. It’s a small beautiful lake surrounded by mountains which is about 20 minutes away from the nearest heavily populated town so it’s quaint and not a lot of people are out on the lake at once so sitting out there ice fishing is a calm, tranquil hobby that can really help you relieve stress and just relax. I started by setting up my shanty and cut a hole right in it for jigging for shad while I'm waiting after i set up all my lines, so then I set up 6 Tip-Ups in two lines right inline with the vision of the shanty door so i could see when i have a flag up. So I sat down and was jigging for a while and must have lost track of time because when I looked up I had two flags up right back to back with each other which left me with a huge problem. At that moment I ran over and stood between the two flags up and had to decide which one i was going to get because i could only choose one because by the time i got one fish up it would give the other one time to realize it was getting caught and go