Noting the presence of 680,000 layers of winter/summer cycles within ice rods drilled out of the Antarctic, he explained that for these to have formed within the last 4,000 years (Mr Ham's dates the earth at 6,000 years, but the point is much the same) the earth would have had to have gone through 170 summer/winter cycles each year.
His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about.
The frozen aorta was placed in 100 µL of ice cold RIPA buffer in a small glass homogenization tube (VWR International, Lutterworth, UK) and homogenized on ice for 6 × 10 s bursts with a close-fitting glass rod.
To rescue someone else who's fallen in, use your ice auger, rod, or tow rope from your ice sled to reach the victim and pull him or her to safety.
While monofilament line is appropriate for the reel on an ice fishing rod, a braided or Dacron line of 30 to 40 pound test (15 to 20 kg class) is a better choice for a tip-up, as you can see it more easily against the snow than a (usually) clear monofilament line.
Downstream, following the cold Provo River into snow-covered Deer Creek Lake, Pugh and Bateman had their own equipment: a hand-operated ice auger, rods and reels, gold-plated lures, nightcrawlers, a 6-pound test line and a black canvas shanty, in case the winds curled up something fierce.
Check the laws of your state or province regarding how many ice fishing rods and tip-ups you can use at any given time.
Then he grabbed a couple of silvery lures called spoons, pinched down the barbs on the hooks with pliers, rigged them to our ice-fishing rods and sent the spoons down the black holes in 30 to 50 feet of water until they hit bottom, at which point we reeled up a bit and flicked the fishing-rod tip like an orchestra conductor, a technique called jigging.
Stanji Ben, fly-fishing master, often has to break ice off his rod while fishing at any time outside of the busy summer months.
