Want to spend time catching fish through the ice—let us know next year!
Ice shanty towns spring up all over Vermont… we love seeing these temporary hard-water communities!
That’s Kay a few years ago after reeling in a nice Brown Trout!
Carrie & Kay enjoying all the comforts of life on the ice…
The ice fishing season is most likely over, but the stories continue… This adorable ice shanty stands all by itself in the northern section of the lake with dense conifers providing a stunning backdrop—one of our favorite winter photos, and there’s more!
These ice shanties are often hilarious—not so much the inherent danger of depositing a structure atop a frozen lake, but the creativity of fashioning a temporary shelter with the amenities of home. Our friends, Carrie and Kevin, introduced us to ice fishing a few years ago have created “ice fishing towns” where friends bring their shelters out on the ice and congregate with fellow anglers— beer in one hand and venison in the other while waiting for fish to bite.
Look at the photo again; see all those things sticking out of the ice? Those are tip-ups. Through a drilled hole, an ice fishing tip-up holds your baited hook at the desired depth waiting for a fish to bite. Once a fish has snagged the bait, the tip-up pops a signal flag and alert the angler. There’s nothing more exciting than reeling in a big brown trout, and later having it for dinner!
Vermont state law requires that ice fishing shanties be removed from the ice before the ice weakens. The shanty must be removed before the ice becomes unsafe or loses its ability to support the shanty or before the last Sunday in March, whichever comes first. The fine for leaving your ice fishing shanty on the ice can be $1,000.
Lake St. Catherine is only minutes from Pond Mountain Inn
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