is different from -20F in Illinoiis or CO. Well, the fact is, it aint, and it aint-20F on the Alone show in the daytime and there's no reason to be outside of your shelter at night. There's zero neef of a fire inside of your shelter. The Innuit had none when it was 0-40F or colder and no, there's nothing special about seal or caribou hides, either. Insulation is provided by trapped air. if you trap enough air around yourself, you stay warm, that's all there is to it. It doesn't get below 0F until the first of December, So you're not dealing with real cold unless youv'e been stupid and didn't get enough food before the lake froze up. The 2-3 lbs of fish the girls caught every other day was not as many calories as they lost by icefishing. I mean, how could they be so stupid as to not have a chunk of tarp and their sleeping bags around then as they waited beside ONE fishing hole? Why not have debris to stand and sit upon, so you dont freeze your feet, like a dummy? Why not have some logs, dirt a fire and hot rocks out there?
They can't even figure out to make two small hooks out of each large hook, wrap 3 of them with wire or fishline and make treblehooks. If you can't have barbed hooks, barbless treblehooks make a catch much more likely than a barbless single hook, that much is certain! then you could catch enough fish to have fish guts for bait, and have 16 fishing holes, with tipup devices to set the hooks for you. All you have to do is peek out of your shelter on the ice now and then and look for the flags that tell you when you've got a fish on. Standing there, fishing with one hook, is idiocy.
They can't even figure out to make two small hooks out of each large hook, wrap 3 of them with wire or fishline and make treblehooks. If you can't have barbed hooks, barbless treblehooks make a catch much more likely than a barbless single hook, that much is certain! then you could catch enough fish to have fish guts for bait, and have 16 fishing holes, with tipup devices to set the hooks for you. All you have to do is peek out of your shelter on the ice now and then and look for the flags that tell you when you've got a fish on. Standing there, fishing with one hook, is idiocy.
