Ice fishing

Kaj (Bushy) Busch is an Australian sports fishing writer and television personality who has appeared in many of Rex Hunt’s Fishing Adventure programs on the Seven Network.

He is saltwater editor of the Fly Life magazine, a columnist for NSW Fishing monthly, a regular presenter of the ABC Radio’s “Gone Fishin” show and a prolific writer, photographer and guest speaker with a high profile throughout Australia and New Zealand.

He has also written feature articles and columns for a dozen or more magazines and is the author of a successful book entitled Fishing the Sapphire Coast of NSW.

• Comments Off

Handlining is one of the oldest forms of fishing and is still common. The method consists of a single fishing line with a weight and one or more lure-like hooks are attached. The line is jigged or moved up and down in a series of short movements, most often close to the sea floor. The motion attracts the fish, which are normally caught while trying to eat the lure but also as they move close to the jigged lure. The line is then hauled onboard and the fish removed. Handlining are most often used to catch groundfish and squid but also other species are sometimes caught, including pelagic zone species.

• Comments Off

Ice blasting is the use of explosives to break up ice in rivers, greatly aiding navigation systems.
This is done during the spring when snow is melting and river ice is breaking up. There is always a chance that the ice flows could collide creating an ice jam creating a dam and blocking the river. The river, filled with melt water, will quickly flood and often cause damage nearby settlements. Thus in most northern areas governments quickly act to break up the ice jams before they can do much damage. This is most easily done with explosives. These explosives may be planted from the shore, or in some cases by helicopter. In the large rivers of the Siberia the Russian airforce is sometimes called in to bomb ice jams.

Some districts, where flooding is especially common, do preemptive ice blasting. The city of Ottawa, Canada, for instance, blasts the Rideau River each spring to break up the ice.

Ice blasting has a number of disadvantages. It is expensive and dangerous requiring highly skilled explosives experts. When blasting is occurring the public must be warned to keep their distance. The blasting has negative environmental consequences. Fish and other river creatures are inevitably killed and the river bottom is scarred.

• Comments Off

• A song called The Thin Ice by Pink Floyd

• Thin Ice (1937) a movie by Sidney Lanfield

• Thin Ice (1995) a movie by Fiona Cunningham-Reid

• Thin Ice (2000) a movie produced by Gerry Flahive and Louise Lore

• Thin Ice a British sitcom

• Thin Ice a board game

• Thin Ice a video game on the Intellivision (also on PC and Xbox in IntellivisionLives! and Intellivision Rocks)

• Thin Ice (2006) a movie by Håkan Berthas. Produced by Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård

• Comments Off

Jack and Jill Ice Cream Company was founded by Max Schwarz in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Schwarz sold ice cream he carried through the streets of Philadelphia. In 1936 the company purchased its first ice cream truck for selling ice cream. In addition to trucks, the company also sells ice cream to restaurants and catering services, in stores, and in vending machines. Its market area includes Philadelphia as well as Absecon, New Jersey, Columbian, Maryland, Federalburg, and Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia.

Provides ice cream for all wawa’s.
It is named for the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme.

• Comments Off

Ice Box may refer to the following:

• An icehouse or icebox.
• Ice Box (song), A song by Omarion.
• Ice Box (arena), an arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• The Ice Box, a popular ice-skating rink near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• Ice Box (magazine), a literary magazine produced by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• The ICEBOX (newspaper), a student newspaper published by Hugh McRoberts Secondary School.
• Icebox.com an internet company

• Comments Off

In terms of sport fishing, a lure is an object attached to the end of the fishing line and designed to resemble and move like an item of fish prey. Lures are equipped with one or more single,double, or treble hooks that are used to hook fish when they attack the lure. Motion is imparted to lures by winding line back on to a reel, by sweeping, jigging movements with a fishing rod, or by being pulled behind a moving boat (”trolling“). An exception is fly lures, commonly called “flies” by fishermen, which either float on the water surface, slowly sink or float underwater, and are based on real behavior of insect being resembled.

Lures are usually used on a fishing rod and fishing reel outfit. When a lure is used for casting, it is continually cast out and sometimes retrieved, the retrieve making the lure swim. A skilled fishermen can explore many possible hiding places for fish through lure casting.

There are many types of fishing lures:

• jig
• wobbler
• surface lures
• spoon lures
• plugs (fishing)
• fly lures
• Texas Rigs
• Mormyshka
• Trout worms
• Bass worms
• Spinnerbait
• Crankbait
• Swimbait
• Jerkbait
• Carolina Rig

• Comments Off

Fishing for Moonlight (2006) is an American movie, directed by Roger Michell, and written by Stephen Schiff. It is a thriller based on the true story of a stockbroker whose life is destroyed when he frees a prostitute from the Russian mafia.

This movie is currently in pre-production.

• Comments Off

Beach casting is a popular form of fishing which is carried out all around the coast of the British Isles. Beach casting is a type of fishing that involves the use of the longest possible fishing rod, usually between 12 feet and 16 feet. The beach caster will stand on a beach or shoreline and cast out to sea with either a water filled float, or a lead weight weighing between 120g and 200g. Bait used in this form of fishing might include limpets, mussels, lugworm, ragworm, sandeel, mackerel strip, squid, peeler crab or razor fish. Additionally, fly lures or even spinners may be used for species such as mackerel or bass. It is a common pastime in coastal areas of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland and often results in the capture of large specimens of many species of fish, including:flatfish, bass, cod, whiting, pollack, black bream, dogfish, smooth hound, bull huss, rays and tope.

• Comments Off

Kaj (Bushy) Busch is an Australian sports fishing writer and television personality who has appeared in many of Rex Hunt’s Fishing Adventure programs on the Seven Network.

He is saltwater editor of the Fly Life magazine, a columnist for NSW Fishing monthly, a regular presenter of the ABC Radio’s “Gone Fishin” show and a prolific writer, photographer and guest speaker with a high profile throughout Australia and New Zealand.

He has also written feature articles and columns for a dozen or more magazines and is the author of a successful book entitled Fishing the Sapphire Coast of NSW.

• Comments Off