Pushing the Season

Willhound

30 F and snow/rain forecast. This guy has been at the boat launch the last few days. At first I thought duck hunters but there are closer launches to the duck marsh.
I'm thinking maybe someone with a cottage on a nearby island trying to get work done before freeze up. With these temps a PFD won't save you. It just makes it easier to find the body to bury.
 

rasbury

How long has he been there, might want to make a call! I saw a bass boat way up in some shallows and maybe aground on shore- u called the sheriff's office just I'm case. Could see no one on the boat. 

Willhound

He was gone this morning. 

rasbury

Well that's good to keep and eye out...

Willhound

The boat launch and park around it is about 3 blocks from where I work so usually pop down for a few minutes every morning to check the lake and get my head in a good place before heading to work.

Handymans342

You should give that guy a piece of your mind making you worried and all. LOL

Willhound

   wasn't that worried. Thought you Floridians would get a kick out of seeing someone boating at 30F. 2016 was a mild winter and the ice didn't come until late January. January 1st when trout season opened that parking lot was full. Nothing like fishing from a boat while wearing a snowmobile suit!

rasbury

I fished I'm a bass tournament and when I launched it was 28 degrees. I never noticed how much water slings off a real when reeling in a lure as that day. Never did that again! 

So us Floridians at Christmas have to tidy up  the yard- can't figure that snow is going to cover up the stuff in the yard that needs tending to. I'm working on pavers and fencing and putting down some new sod.Christmas is an outside event in FL, not huddled around a warm fire. It was 84 here today...

Willhound

Another, different, truck and trailer there this morning. About 26F. Not my idea of fun.

rasbury

Can't be any fish doing anything? Trout are running in the intercoastal

Willhound

Lake Trout here is closed for spawning. Bass is open but not likely. Could be waterfowl hunters. There's a launch much closer to the marsh though. There are two islands about a 15 min boat ride nearby that have cottages on them. Could be someone visiting or working at one of them. One of the islands has an ice road to it once the ice is thick enough but until then some of them will boat out as long as they can.

rasbury

That is a whole different life than what we are used to...I did line right up on the border in ND for about 3 years but not being near water, it was just cold and flat!

Willhound

Okay. This is insane. Zero Fahrenheit this morning. Ice forming on the lake.

Dream_Inn

WOW!  Maybe they are just driving up there with an empty trailer and parking!   that is crazy!

PickleRick

In Soviet Russia winter is summer

Lake_Bum

Maybe the Titanic is that guys favorite movie.  He's cruising around the lake yelling ICEBURG!!!!!!!!   

aero3113

Wouldn’t be good if the lake froze enough while he was out there and couldn’t get back in....

rasbury

That's a die hard..should be launching for new year but 60 or 70.... Or hotter!

Willhound

Mystery solved. Spoke with these gents this morning. Last day of waterfowl season. They hunt every morning they can and last day is today. But Lake Trout opens tomorrow so you can bet there will be boats in tomorrow morning too. I don't know whether to admire the tenacity or just shake my head. 

rasbury

Shaking my head...

PickleRick

Cold is a relative term, we dont know where those guys are from.  

Willhound

Didn't take a pic but there were a couple of boats out today. About 30F. Like ice fishing but from a boat. 

Willhound

PickleRick said:

Cold is a relative term, we dont know where those guys are from.  

Right down the street from my house. 1 hour north of Toronto.

PickleRick

I mean where they are originally from, born raised.  My family is from PA, so 40 degrees is t shirt and jeans weather for many of them down here.

bella-vita

I see boats in water still fishing around here in Niagara River 

Willhound

PickleRick said:

I mean where they are originally from, born raised.  My family is from PA, so 40 degrees is t shirt and jeans weather for many of them down here.

Ahh. Now I understand. Well I can bet you none of them are "New Canadians". Mostly good old boys that grew up hunting and fishing.

Handymans342

bella-vita said:

I see boats in water still fishing around here in Niagara River 

I sure hope they dont eat those fish

bella-vita

They sure do

Handymans342

They glow in the dark Walleyes? LOL

randy56

At least they are not sitting on the couch complaining, they are doing something they love. 

Willhound

Yep. For sure. 20 years ago that could have been me.