Ice Fishing Hats

Ice fishing has its own language. When a tip-up trips, anglers across the frozen lake yell "Flag!", and Field & Stream calls a popped flag the hard-water equivalent of watching a bobber go down. The Minnesota DNR puts the minimum at 4 inches of new, clear ice for walking out on foot, 5-7 inches for a snowmobile or ATV, and 8-12 inches for a car or small pickup, and says to check thickness every 150 feet. Then comes the work: augering ten holes, clearing the slush, setting the tip-ups, and settling into a shanty, which one Middlebury Campus angler says you can call whatever you want, but it is called a shanty. First ice is often the best of the season. These ice fishing hats are for the hardwater angler who does all of that on purpose. Badges name the sport and the angler; sentence designs carry the bucket, the drilled holes, the four inches and the tall tales that go with a row of tip-ups. Ice Fishing Brain and I'm Surrounded By Ice Holes already sell on tees, and this collection takes its own lines on the same subject. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Give one to the person in your house who is out on the lake all weekend.