If you have never experienced an Illinois winter, then consider yourself blessed, there were times when the snow was so thick on the ground, piled up several feet high, as well as both of us couldn’t even make it to the frozen pond! But when both of us could, it was an amazing time! Ice fishing in Illinois is one of the best memories I have of being a teenager.
At the time, my family owned about 8 hundred acres worth of farmland in the southeastern edge of Illinois; Since then the land has been divided up as well as sold off in parcels, however at the time it was a pressing swath of corn as well as soybeans, and about more than one miles away from the farmhouse, through a long as well as winding trail through the crops, was a small pond, and during the summers both of us could fish or go swimming, as well as in the Wintertide both of us could set up the rickety old shack as well as go ice fishing, but in this area of Illinois, ice fishing was an annual event. All of us even had neighbors from other farms who came over to go ice fishing in our pond. If you have never experienced an Illinois winter, then consider yourself blessed, there were times when the snow was so thick on the ground, piled up several feet high, as well as both of us couldn’t even make it to the frozen pond! But when both of us could, it was an amazing time! Ice fishing in Illinois is one of the best memories I have of being a teenager. All of us would smuggle out a few cases of beer, as well as a few ounces of locally grown Illinois cannabis, as well as spend a few days in the fishing shack on the pond. If both of us caught any fish both of us would usually cook them up as well as eat them on the spot, because both of us had consumed too much budweiser as well as cannabis to safely get ourselves back home. Although it’s best to avoid Wintertide in Illinois, I highly recommend trying out ice fishing there.