As a kid I went through the ice while checking traps. Had some sticks with corn and traps in muskrat holes, as I chopped around the stick to pull it up the ice gave out and in I went. Water filled my hip waders but I was able to crawl out. Had a three mile ride on my moped to get home, lucky it was a balmy 19 degree morning. I was shaking so bad when I got there I could barely get my gear off. As I was warming up in the bathtub mom was yelling at me for leaving such a mess on the porch. Didn't tell her what had happened for years, afraid she wouldn't want to let me run traps anymore! I stopped using those kind of sets and stuck to where I knew the water was shallow after that. Dangerous game going out on the ice in any conditions.