Hopefully he just ate a bad taco, my grandmother though she was having a heart attack once and it turned out to be indigestion, that said I have no idea of Jerry's symptoms.
We had a skim coat the other day on the small and medium size ponds but that's gone. Some years down here you don't get enough ice to fish on the bigger lakes the whole year, and some years you get thick ice. I remember chopping through two feet to cut my holes on year.