New or Diehard Icemen ...

Found this great site for the new and diehard Icemen - has alot of info and videos ...

http://www.trueblueicefishing.com/

Iceshanty.com . Bunch of us here have been kicked off there by the bias moderators for sharing our opinions about them deleting good posts for no reason other then they had a different point of view then they did. Just about every post turns into a rant and last year a guy was taking pics from a different states thread and posting them as his own and they did nothing about it, but share your opinion they crush it. They are a joke.

My sentiments exactly too, DeadFishRed...
 
We get some pretty good local info here on this forum, and as for photos?  Well, you know we all dig our fish/fishing photos around this clubhouse...  Great stuff...
 
Plus, our moderator is a little more lax on the ribbing and the grass jokes.  I hate it when the inner'net police come storming in an worry about "what the kids will read" on the internet.
 
Are you telling me that any 12yr old with an online connection is most at risk of being corrupted by a fishing website?  Man, some people are pretty far out of touch with the way the world actually operates today.
 
IceShanty is what it is...  A good source of info.  But needless to say, it's more fun over here on 'our' site, ha!
 
The music is way better here among these guys, and everything always smells so fresh!
 
I think I have seen the most absurdity on the Stripers247 site.  Which, ironically, is how I found this site and met nearly every single person I now fish with in the Capital Region.  While our guys still get some representation on that site during the springtime- it still seems like the best information appears here at FishUSA.
 
We've built quite a lil' community over here.  It's getting a lot bigger lately, but at least it is still sort of 'ours'.
 
If it gets too big I can swipe some server space at work and we'll get our own blogspot rocking.  Ha!

I'll say one more thing about Shanty. I put up a post about the new tip-up definition to clear up whether a dead stick is considered a tip-up after I spent 3 days on the phone with the DEC finding out, it turned into a rant because of "jokesters" like fishgamehunter (I have another word but I won't use it here) and ended up getting deleted. Yet they keep up stuff from "jokesters" like fishgamehunter up to cause controversy. You can get some good info if it doesn't get deleted before you see. BTW a dead stick is considered a tip-up if it has a spring bobber, bells or other signaling device attached to it and has to be in close proximity of you.
 
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