Extreme Ice Fishing

[M.D. Holloway]

You have to see this - very impressive...


YouTube - Race against the tide, risking death under huge blocks of ice - Human Planet: Arctic - BBC One

[masraum]

Uh, how did they get their nuts down through that hole in the ice? It couldnt possibly have been big enough. Maybe they force them through one at a time..

That's what I call insane. I didn't listen to the audio, but Im sure the tide comes and goes fairly slowly, but still. Wow!

[M.D. Holloway]

I would be more afraid of the ice shifting and crashing down on top of me. I like shell fish but not that much!

[Evans, Marv]

I would imagine they develop a sense of where a good place to go down is and what kind of pocket is most stable, but it would be kind of scarry.

[chocolatelab]

holy crap

[oldE]

Must be Ungava Bay in northern Quebec.
Second highest recorded tides in the world after the Bay of Fundy.

A bit of dramatic license going on, as the time lapse photography compresses a 12 hour 25 minute tide cycle into a half minute.

Still, crawling around under the chunks of ice to get dinner isn't for the faint-hearted.

Les

[URY914]

[kach22i]

Why don't they just go to the grocery store like I do?

[GH85Carrera]

That is how I do all my fishing around here.

[M.D. Holloway]

Those must be some dam good clams!