Stuck out on Alice. Get rid of the vex!

[shorthairsrus]

Buy something that has current technolgy like GPS graph

http://www.wday.com/news/4192062-white-out-conditions-left-man-stranded-devils-lake

http://www.wday.com/news/4192062-white-out-conditions-left-man-stranded-devils-lake

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Sounds like a scary story. I do wonder if he had any GPS along for his sled






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Devils Lake, ND (WDAY News) - Lost on a lake; a North Dakota man turned to survival instincts to make it out alive.

Mark Nygaard was fishing on Lake Alice, north of Devils Lake Monday, when the storm blew in.

With white out conditions he could barely see 10-feet.
He had to put up his ice fishing tent a second time, and try and warm-up his cell phone battery to call for help.
Despite calling 911, and searchers "pinging" his location, it still took four hours to find him.
"In those weather conditions, if they were there 10 minutes earlier, they might not have seen him," said Randi Alfinson, Lake Region Search and Rescue.
"I spent time just you know thinking about family and God and that's what I did," said Mark Nygaard, lost ice fisherman.
Mark is no stranger to the area, he's been ice fishing on that lake for three decades.

 

[Vollmer]

As long as I had propane I wouldn't be too worried. Wait out the storm, and go after. But, when you are out there I bet you wonder if it will ever end.

 

[Davy Crockett]

We have all been on plenty of adventures but at least be aware of the forecast and your surroundings and be prepared or stay home .

 

[Captain Ahab]

IMO the guy is an idiot. The forecast said the wind was going to pick up AND you don't have a GPS trail to follow back. AND then you endanger the rescue workers on top of it. Face palm.

 

[guywhofishes]

What Ahab said. Three decades - the guy should have known better.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Unless it was the most epic bite of 30 years of fishing. Then I would say "Well fair enough then".

 

[DirtyMike]

Or don't go out on the lake with a storm forecasted.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Or don't go out on the lake with a storm forecasted.

I could have went that day. Precisely why I didn't go.

 

[wildeyes]

I told someone on that day that someone would be a fool and go ice fishing because the weather is always nice before the storm. I have went fishing on questionable days myself lessen learned.

 

[shorthairsrus]

If u see these TV guy setups they all have a graph mounted to sled. For about 1/2 the price of a vex u can by a graph, a bag for it and two wires, two brackets and two power wires. Two seconds and your looking at a screen that shows u your path u took out. Follow and u r back to your truck.

 

[DirtyMike]

And what if someone's house is set up on your path? Being smart will trump gadgets.

 

[Bfishn]

Keep the vex, pull your graph off your boat for lake maps/gps and mount on sled/atv/truck. Or you could just watch the weather, but its amazing how many people don't do that. Ive only been kind of lost once on Audubon and that was 15 years ago before anybody really had GPS.

 

[DirtyMike]

I won't discredit the idea of having a gps. I think you should have something with you to get you back to shore. But, I'm not going to rely on it and head out onto a lake when weather is moving in.

 

[NDSportsman]

IMO the guy is an idiot. The forecast said the wind was going to pick up AND you don't have a GPS trail to follow back. AND then you endanger the rescue workers on top of it. Face palm.

This^^^^.

The guy is stupid and should have known better. Hope he gets a bill for the rescue efforts.

 

[gonefshn]

Or a decent cellphone. Most phones you can put some apps on or have them built in. Compass, Google Earth, Navionics, HuntStand, and the list goes on......

 

[Bfishn]

Or a decent cellphone. Most phones you can put some apps on or have them built in. Compass, Google Earth, Navionics, HuntStand, and the list goes on......

Unless you have an iphone and the piece of shit goes dead every time it even gets chilly. They can help in a pinch, but don't rely on cell phones for your only navigation, especially in winter. The one time you really need it the damn thing will be dead.

 

[Captain Ahab]

If u see these TV guy setups they all have a graph mounted to sled. For about 1/2 the price of a vex u can by a graph, a bag for it and two wires, two brackets and two power wires. Two seconds and your looking at a screen that shows u your path u took out. Follow and u r back to your truck.

Then you could have a descent map and crappy target separation while jigging. Most guys on TV use both.

 

[Jiggernaut]

It happened to me once on Lake Audubon and it's scary. Luckily, I had the Navionics App on my phone and it took me to the nearest boat ramp

 

[JayKay]

Unless you have an iphone and the piece of shit goes dead every time it even gets chilly. They can help in a pinch, but don't rely on cell phones for your only navigation, especially in winter. The one time you really need it the damn thing will be dead.

My wife and I are on maybe our fourth pair of iphones, and they've always been fine. When they get to two years old, the battery is not as robust, but that could be any two-year old battery, in any phone.

When it's cold out, I keep my phone in an inside pocket, close to my body. I might not be able to whip it out to check the scores every 3 minutes, but it's there if I really need it.

 

[Fisherman25]

If u see these TV guy setups they all have a graph mounted to sled. For about 1/2 the price of a vex u can by a graph, a bag for it and two wires, two brackets and two power wires. Two seconds and your looking at a screen that shows u your path u took out. Follow and u r back to your truck.

You and your graph agenda. I'd swear you get commission on them. Simple as this, have some sort of GPS with ya. Graphs on the ice are for guys that like to do more beer drinking than fishing.

Oh wait, if I lift my jig two feet off the bottom I get separation! (Says the graph guy).