This was a strange winter, to say the least. Someone told me recently that this is only the fourth time in 100 years that we have had such a mild winter up here in the Northeast. Doesn't really surprise me.  I have been saying that we had a prolonged Fall which seems to have bumped into an early Spring. Don't know where winter went, but it sure didn't come to our neck of the woods this year!

We heard from several folks from around the country who wanted to go  ice fishing with their GPS fishfinder combo, but not from around here. Well, not much anyways. Fishfinder GPS works great for ice fishing, but you need plenty of ice for that to work safely. It's pretty slick! You can even use the same GPS fishfinder combination unit to watch more than one hole at once with the included ice transducers which will let you fish two holes simultaneously. There is an ATV bracket which lets you attach your GPS fishfinder combo to an ATV or snowmobile for easy lake navigation. Again, you need some serious ice to be safe driving around on it, but that's just me. I have this thing about breaking through the ice. No falling through the ice and ending up swimming in freezing water which is over my head for me! Thanks anyway. I guess I'm a little jealous of the folks who actually had some seriously cold weather this year, that is to say those folks who actually had winter this year. After all, ice fishing can be a lot of fun.

I do remember one particularly cold winter when we actually had a small fire on the ice - it was that thick - and cooked hot dogs and marshmallows with our young son. Those are the things memories are made of.