What makes a "good spot"

[chauncey]

When we were kids, finding the best spot was an important aspect of fishing.
How does this guy know where to punch that hole...100% crop.

[Mike Buckley]

Very clever!

[NorthernFocus]

good point. nicely depicted.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[Downrigger]

Nice. Interesting thought and intriguing light. GPS?

[chauncey]

Doesn't anyone know ice fishing?

[HaseebM]

While we do no have ice or snow where I live, I can only guess the spot is picked by tapping the ice floor or seeing the transparency.

[rpcrowe]

Nothing to do with photography but, a fisherman might know the structure below the water and ice by:

1. previously fishing there
2. exploring the area during the non-ice periods
3. some depth finders can be used and will penetrate the ice and give a signal

4. if you see a group of fishermen fishing in one location, that might be a good place to start

[Mike Buckley]

4. if you see a group of fishermen fishing in one location, that might be a good place to start

Only if they're catching fish.

[NorthernFocus]

Doesn't anyone know ice fishing?

What we call ice fishing is fishing blocks of glacial ice out of the water to put in the beer cooler (aka esky or whatever you upside down folks call it).

[tbob]

Don't ask me. My one and only trial with ice fishing was when four of us skied five miles into a lake. The attraction was the surrounding area is famous for the size and number of trout. This lake had never been fished because access was impossible in the warm months and only that fall had a logging company pushed a road to within five miles of the lake. We did not have an ice auger and were too poor to buy one. So we decided to use an axe to cut through the ice. After what seemed like an eternity of being hit in the face with ice shards we got through two feet of ice only to find we had about one inch of water below us. So we moved over a couple of hundred feet to avoid the gravel bar. This time we got down about twenty inches only to find we hit a seam of water between the layers of ice. The hole filled with water. By this time we needed to ski out to avoid being caught in the dense spruce forest after dark. Never went ice fishing again.

[Mike Buckley]

The best ice fishing I've seen on television is two restaurant owners and the host of the television show sitting in an ice fishing cabin eating exquisite french cuisine cooked right there in the cabin and drinking extremely expensive wine. No fishing was being done, at least none included in the show. It was not lost on me that none of the food they ate was fish.

[tbob]

Seems to me that the majority of "Ice Fishing" involves several twofers and a forty pounder (Translation from Canadian Twofer: 24 tins of beer Forty pounder: forty ounce bottle of rye whiskey) I cannot think there is much fishing occurring. No french cuisine involved either.

As an added insight; there is an expression for drinking too much and vomiting into the hole; "Chumming". It is prevalent enough to have a folk term so make your own determination.

[chauncey]

Sure sounds as if you guys are suggesting that one must be somewhat inebriated, or something
close to that, to even contemplate the "adventure" of it all. I would have thought that just getting
out of the house would have been reason enough.