Life in Sturgeon - New Friends

I moved my ice hut over to where the action was. My new friend "Bang Bang" had a hunch and studied the waters. He has lived in the area most his life and worked the river for the last few years. His location hunch has bagged us limits sevral days in a row! We had a New Years fish fry and Sue and I have been eating fish more regular.

Bang Bang made his hut from a preexisting tarp style ice hut. He made modifications. He put in a wood stove and ply on the walls. It is very cozy, although we have a hard time regulating the wood stove. Sometimes we are too hot and sometimes too cold. When the fishing is bad, we just sit and laugh and joke and swap lies.

 

Bang Bang has predicted a week of poor fishing. Two nights in a row we got skunked. Last night we had company so we gave up on the fishing and just had fun.

This is my other friend Richard. He lives down the road. He has a hound dog called Rocket. We have ahad great fun. The ice was really slippery after the rain and it scared Rocket. He insisted on being carried. Hound dogs sure can howl when they want something. Haha..Richard tries to sneak up on us but the hound gets so excited he cant resist but to yelp.

So there we were, 4 adults and a dog in a small ice hut. Rocketlikes laps. He thinks he is a lap dog. He found Bang Bangs lap last night. After we had enough of cozy pleasantries, we decided to go to Richards for an outdoor fire.

Hardy bunch here. Richard does not turn the heat on in his house unless he is there and he heats entirely with wood. He was angry because his thermostat's lowest setting was 50F, so he just shuts it off and the main breaker. Richard leaves his hot water tank off unless he needs hot water. He turns on his hot water tank, washes, cleans floors, dishes etc and then turns it off. Richard cooks many of his meals out on the open fire....winter..summer...makes no differance.

We are going to learn a lot from these two fellows. Today, we are learning about Rabbit snaring. We havnt been to town for 2 weeks except for a minnow run. Sue and I need to do a bit of shopping.