This week, I outfitted my ice fishing sledge with a rattle-reel, a super-sketchy homebrew detonator (the trigger involves a guitar pick) and a launch pad. Now, I know when a fish bites because a rocket launches.
No one lost a hand today, but we did lose 2 rockets.
Thanks to the dudes at mission control: Dave, Jake and Jeff.
Here's a hi-res photo of the set-up:
6 comments:
Why not tie the line to the rocket? That way you don't even need to reel them in, just wait for the rocket to come back down...
You know what? That is actually illegal here in Minnesota. (Plus, it would really suck for the fish.) That's called auto-setting. If I went over to Wisconsin, however, I could do that. Go figure.
Mi wife sent me the video and said "even you might take up ice fishing if you had a rig like this." Cool as it is, I pointed out that it still doesn't alleviate frostbite and boredom. I would be like the penguins in "Madagascar" when they finally reach Antarctica.
why did i know this was a Minnesota thing before i knew it was Minnesota?
Sorry, already been done. See the old "Doc Savage" movie starring Ron Ely, by George Pal, if I remember correctly.
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