Great series Adam..I've been around ice fishing all my life on the southern lakes of Ontario. I've never seen this method..very ingenious. It's easy to see how it connects to what would have been the traditional methods before the mechanization made the job easier. Use your imagination and you can see exactly how hard this work would have been for past generations..likely even when your father was young. Well done!
Just watched all four parts. Very informative, great job. Funny to see you guys still using some of the same equipment they were 50 years ago. Way to carry on the tradition.
i watched all 4 parts .my dad used to have this jigger thing sitting in the rafters,and for the life of me i could not connect this thing with ice fishing.lol now i know ,what a great video,good job.i like dave ,he doesent realy like bein on camera.lol
If it were me, I would use an electric motor on the ice drill since you have a generator. It would prevent the caboose from getting filled with 2-cycle smoke. You do have a very interesting operation going there though.
That's a unique way of doing it to much equipment being used tho I'd have just had a skidoo pull the net back in but nice video I'm sure your dad knows what he's doing good job making lake Winnipeg look good :)
very cool, I love ice fishing lake winnipeg and have always wondered how commercial fishing was done on the ice. How has the fishing been this year for you guys out there?
What a shame. Gill netting has ruined sport fishing. Just kills everything. One time I was talking to a proud person who just got a 40 pound Laker. He said he gets big ones like that quite often but they break free and fall back. ..stone dead. Granted a forty probably isn't going to be a good eating fish but they would be fun to catch. Gill nets not totally go around the entire Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior and beyond. Needless to say normal fishing is terrible. For many years we would fish Copper Harbor every fall for Splake. The fishery was incredible. Big beautiful, and super tasty, Splake. Two years ago we gave it up. They fish were gone. Talking to a biologist he said very few fish are going to creel now. Nets are even in the harbor now. When the fish get to about 12 inches the gill nets take them. I was pretty put off when the walleye spearing got out of control. You can buy them once and a while when the tribal spearers come knocking on your door selling them by the 5 gallon pail....totally illegal, btw. Lots of illegal stuff happens. Rarely are any fines imposed. Some tribal netter got busted in Little Bay De Noc about ten years ago with 70,000 pounds over their allowed take. When it all was over they had to pay about $300 in fines. Me and my son and daughter decided this fall that we are going to sell the boat. It's almost pointless to have it now. btw, before this gets racist, I use to help my grandfather tend his hoop nets. It's a way you can net fish and be able to keep targeted fish and release unwanted one. No waste. Not such a raping of a resource. Greed has turned us into a joke. We aren't using cedar bark twined gill nets anymore or anything remotely traditional. Be ashamed
A SHAME you say? You don't understand...these are not SPORT fishermen...they are commercial fishermen.....that means that they do it for a living....you only understand SPORT fishing....doing it for fun vs. doing it to feed you family. Remember Peter, James, and John of Bible fame? This is basically what they did.....in tougher conditions than the middle east....and here Pop and Dave stuck to it....they did not wander off with someone.
Do you really have to exploit wildlife and fisheries to make money. Get a real job and than go fishing. I will never eat a commercial walleye in a restaurant ever. There is no need for this type of harvest anymore. yuk! they kill everything, every size fish. the Province will generate more revenue having fisherman come for a quality fishing experience than this fishery destruction debacle. Unbelievable and unnecessary.
Great series Adam..I've been around ice fishing all my life on the southern lakes of Ontario. I've never seen this method..very ingenious. It's easy to see how it connects to what would have been the traditional methods before the mechanization made the job easier. Use your imagination and you can see exactly how hard this work would have been for past generations..likely even when your father was young. Well done!
Just watched all four parts. Very informative, great job. Funny to see you guys still using some of the same equipment they were 50 years ago. Way to carry on the tradition.
Dave, you are a wondernet man. Love what ya did with the net shack.
Very informative, I wasn't aware there was commercial ice fishing, thank you, enjoyed your vids
Very interesting; appreciate the effort to post that. Thanks.
i watched all 4 parts .my dad used to have this jigger thing sitting in the rafters,and for the life of me i could not connect this thing with ice fishing.lol now i know ,what a great video,good job.i like dave ,he doesent realy like bein on camera.lol
That is one AWESOME MACHINE!! I wish they still made those things!
I have never ever seen anything like that. A standing ovation for all involved except that cameraman. Skater!!
If it were me, I would use an electric motor on the ice drill since you have a generator. It would prevent the caboose from getting filled with 2-cycle smoke. You do have a very interesting operation going there though.
Байкал показывали, на двух лыжах брезентом обтянута, размером с собачью будку печурка, внутри двое омуля выбирают.
That's a unique way of doing it to much equipment being used tho I'd have just had a skidoo pull the net back in but nice video I'm sure your dad knows what he's doing good job making lake Winnipeg look good :)
The fishing has been good lately. Great season so far.
very cool, I love ice fishing lake winnipeg and have always wondered how commercial fishing was done on the ice. How has the fishing been this year for you guys out there?
What a shame. Gill netting has ruined sport fishing. Just kills everything. One time I was talking to a proud person who just got a 40 pound Laker. He said he gets big ones like that quite often but they break free and fall back. ..stone dead. Granted a forty probably isn't going to be a good eating fish but they would be fun to catch.
Gill nets not totally go around the entire Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior and beyond. Needless to say normal fishing is terrible.
For many years we would fish Copper Harbor every fall for Splake. The fishery was incredible. Big beautiful, and super tasty, Splake. Two years ago we gave it up. They fish were gone. Talking to a biologist he said very few fish are going to creel now. Nets are even in the harbor now. When the fish get to about 12 inches the gill nets take them.
I was pretty put off when the walleye spearing got out of control. You can buy them once and a while when the tribal spearers come knocking on your door selling them by the 5 gallon pail....totally illegal, btw. Lots of illegal stuff happens. Rarely are any fines imposed. Some tribal netter got busted in Little Bay De Noc about ten years ago with 70,000 pounds over their allowed take. When it all was over they had to pay about $300 in fines.
Me and my son and daughter decided this fall that we are going to sell the boat. It's almost pointless to have it now.
btw, before this gets racist, I use to help my grandfather tend his hoop nets. It's a way you can net fish and be able to keep targeted fish and release unwanted one. No waste. Not such a raping of a resource.
Greed has turned us into a joke.
We aren't using cedar bark twined gill nets anymore or anything remotely traditional.
Be ashamed
Good editing informative video .
i never seen this before, its pretty neat. what do you do with all your fish?
For you're info the first year for the metal Bomber was 52..not 56
I think Dave is doing his best to be calm and your not taking the hint that he wants the camera out of his face.Your father's not far behind him.
@ 5:07, di you say Mariya? Or what? Is it a Burbot? Or Eelpout? Really cool!
Yes we call them Mariya in manitoba
What drill is that?
У меня мини лебёдка с пультом управления
A SHAME you say? You don't understand...these are not SPORT fishermen...they are commercial fishermen.....that means that they do it for a living....you only understand SPORT fishing....doing it for fun vs. doing it to feed you family. Remember Peter, James, and John of Bible fame? This is basically what they did.....in tougher conditions than the middle east....and here Pop and Dave stuck to it....they did not wander off with someone.
way cool thanks for posting...if you ever need a hand call me
whawaa, ruin my lake. why you need to fish like this?
What a waste you keep the goldeye and Walleye and throw everything else on the ice to Route..
You guys a so mean to the fish put them out of there miseries and don't throw Em in the bucket
yup. commercial fishing,, killing lake Winnipeg one fish at a time! and wasteful!!! walleye or goldeye!! everything else,,. garbage, for shame!
Do you really have to exploit wildlife and fisheries to make money. Get a real job and than go fishing. I will never eat a commercial walleye in a restaurant ever. There is no need for this type of harvest anymore. yuk! they kill everything, every size fish. the Province will generate more revenue having fisherman come for a quality fishing experience than this fishery destruction debacle. Unbelievable and unnecessary.
I wonder who's consuming these fish I'd never buy a walleye they always look nasty maybe they ship them overseas
what a joke