Nah. I've always thought that whoever invented ice fishing must not have liked their wife much.
No way the fish huts here on the Lampery river catching smelts were not fun back a time ago. Say 30 years ago.
I remember packing my year old baby on my back through a path of snow to the river and heading out for an ice hut. Lots of them out there and someone saw me coming and the fisherman came and led us to his Smelt Shack.
Nice these tiny huts , Colman lanterns and actually warm inside. A rectangle had been cut in the ice and a board with hooks atop them.
A bag of blood worms ready to go , sandwiches and drinks handy, we just had to wait for the tide and hear the call---They are Running.
The fisherman then grabbed the worms and skewered them to the hooks, dropped the board, pulled it up and removed the fish. No need to use more worms, or the board, the blood was on the hooks and just dropping them in the water caused the Smelts to attack.
We would come home with bushel baskets of those fish, head for the local fish market and make enough money to pay for heating oil.
This can be fun and profitable to those that enjoy it, I did this only 3 times and it was fun.