By Mike M.
Stanley Owner for: 20 years
Story Topic: Unknown
Ice Fishing with My Stanley Thermos
In 1986, I went to the Saginaw Bay for an ice fishing trip. While on the ice, pulling perch out of the water during a feeding frenzy, I knocked my 2 quart Stanley thermos, full of hot coffee, down the ice hole! As I grabbed for it, I watched it bob once and disappear under the ice!
Over the next half hour or so, the schools of perch moved on to other feeding areas, so I went to some other holes I had drilled to try and find them. While fishing one of these holes some fifty yards or so away from the site where I lost my thermos, I jumped as something large approached the hole I was fishing in. Up bobbed my thermos, in the ice hole! I grabbed it and pulled it out, wiped the cup off and poured out a hot cup of coffee!
I've told this story dozens of times over the past twenty years. It always surprises people how amazingly lucky I was to be at the appropriate spot on the ice to retrieve the thermos when it bobbed back up, and the fact that the coffee was still hot after being under the ice for that long.
I have taken that thermos on countless hunting and fishing trips over the years and it has always performed flawlessly. This thermos is truly an experienced member of my outdoor team and it has the stories to prove it!