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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 67487" data-attributes="member: 4199">There's a trick.  Being one of the biggest people to go through the school where i grew up helps (I was 6'4" and about 220, my older brother topped me by an inch and maybe 20 lbs, my younger brother is a couple inches shorter and a bit bigger than my older brother), and knowing everyone in the town (less than 500 people in town and maybe 100 in the surrounding farms) helped to keep the shack safe on the ice.  My family there is well liked, my Dad just got votd in as the mayor this year, and mom was the public librarian for the last 25 years or so until she retired this past August.  We didn't leave anything in it, we'd take the chairs and cooler and whatnot out with us each time.Also having the local sheriff deputy (the town's not big enough for it's own police force) come out and fish with us helped too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />  On average i'd say we knew 90% of the people on the ice, and the 10% or so we didn't know someone in the 90% we did know knew them.  Also the last time i went ice fishing there was 15 years ago give or take, so maybe things have changed now.</blockquote>