Not a fun experience in water world in winter. When I was about 14 I went through the ice on a creek. I had a pack on and heavy winter clothes. When I fell through I did not touch bottom and remember opening my eyes to see the brown water. I somehow had enough bearings to slide the pack off and started to look and feel for where I fell through. I finally found the broken ice and got my head above water to gasp for air. A few more seconds underwater and I would have been sucking water. I managed to get out and then had a mile and a half to walk home. My clothes froze but I somehow managed to make it home. The creek was only 7 or 8 feet wide at that point and a person would have never guessed it was so deep.
Beware the beaver dam and around beaver houses. Beavers need at least 6 feet of water so they don't get frozen in and for their feed piles during winter. I have since learned how to read the ice around beaver houses and mark beaver runs before ice on. I have a rule now that if I'm going early ice fishing on thinner ice I will only fish in water 4 to 5 feet deep.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
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