fishnsled

Well after a very busy couple of months things are starting to slow done a bit.

I have manged to get out a couple of times on the water with some succuess. Some nice crappies on my birthday a couple of weeks ago (No Phil, it wasn't your spot lol!) and a good bag of eyes last weekend. I think I've got a pic that I'll add later of the crappies but nothing of the eyes. All is well and looking forward to the up coming seasons ahead.

Unfortunately I've had to cancel my Lakair reservation do to a conflict. It's actually a good conflict as HH told me it was a no brainer and to go. Well on the Lakair weekend I'll be leaving for Cochrane and will be flying with Air Cochrane to one of the Kesagami outpost camps. We will be flying into Floodwood Lake in search of walleye and hopefully a trophy northern, a PB would be fine as well. On the link to Floodwood Lake there is a comment made by a John C., Well John is a buddy of mine and tells me I should be in for a trip of a lifetime. Report to follow.

Hopefully everyone here has been well, nice to here all is well with the kidney stones Corey, and looking forward to spending some time on the water with a few of you.

Take care this holiday weekend, be safe!

Fishnsled

I'm sure he'll strike a chord with his fellow boaters.

GREAT NEWS HH!!!! Congrats!

Nice video Joey........that poor man!!

Might want to get that under control Cliff....IF that ever happens to me and you laugh..you are going overboard! lol

 

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Well there goes my coffee. LOL! Now that's something to laugh about. COOL video too.

Well I guess I can uncross my fingers and toes now. That's great because it was really starting to hurt. LOL!!! GREAT NEWS HH!!

JUST FANTASTIC!!!!!!! CONGRATS to you and your family!!!

It has a pool but will a boat fit in the garage?? Does it even have a garage??? Tony and I are looking for a place to store our boats.

.......that must have been my ex-wife .....lol cheers

One of them must have been mine as well! LOL!

Gotta go shine the old frying pan so it's ready when hubby gets home

LOL!!!

Happy birthday Monique!

Are ya thinking of a mini G2G Terry? How many will fit in that boat of yours? Off the Park looks good too.

Looking at the picture,I am ready to rip the shrink wrap off the ol boat and Im ready for blast off.

You're reading my mind Misfish.

But then you look at the long range forecast and wonder.......should I wait????

Weather forecast.

Here's today's satellite image. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Very nice Ron!

Ice is leaving faster then a fat guy eating a large pepperoni pizza.

Well there goes my coffee all over the keyboard. LOL!!

Always like to go as long as I can CCMT, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Always better then staying at home.

HH - Throw in some taters, a veggie (should have done up your asparagus) and it was a great meal. Otherwise I could have eaten the whole plate of perch myself!

Thanks for the the replys everyone!

I know your pain Tony. Everytime the girlfriend brings up a house to go and look at I look at the pic of the house. If it doesn't have a double door instead of 2 singles I don't even want to look at it. Try talking to these new home builders and ask about making the garage bigger - no deal. . And to top that off, in most of these newer developments they won't allow you to park your boat in the driveway! They won't be getting my money until they offer a garage that will hold my boat and sled. Needless to say that the house hunting has been put on the back burner.

My vote for report of the month. Just AWESOME!!!! (As always) Thanks for posting.

Very nice!!! Thanks for sharing.

Well yesterday's fishing adventure was probably one of the best days I've ever had. I couldn't keep them off my hook. I figure that I personally caught somewhere around 250+ perch myself, that being a conservative guess. It started off a bit slow then all hell broke loose. I'd drop my bait down and pull up a perch, sometimes I had to count to 5 before I got one. This went on for about 2.5 -3 hours. Then it was a dozen or so quick ones then move to another hole.

My Dad and his buddy had moved on and missed the main bite where they had gone to. An argument for run and gun or stay and wait them out I guess. Always a gamble and both will win from time to time. I figured I was catching fish so I was staying. They went on the hunt for bigger fish and lost. My Dad's buddy continued on fishing his way home and Dad circled back to meet up with me just as the bite was slowing down. Up to that point I didn't have to much to show the old man because I didn't have much in the way of any size to keep.

I found that by the end of the day we would just walk the 20+ holes we had and get fish. Fish a hole and pull up 6-12 fish, they'd shut down. Move 10 feet and catch another 6-12. Just kept working in a circle. Depth fished ranged from 25ft to 8ft. Although no jumbos were caught the action was unbelievable. Biggest fish was about 9.5". Several dozen in the 8-9" range but most in the 5-7" range. I figured if I was going to have a feed I need to start keeping more of these 9" to make up a meal. I did end keeping about 20 for a fry last night. Man those little buggers are SO tasty.

The ice conditions were noticeably different from the week before. Ice was very soft, like drilling threw butter in spots. The shoreline is starting to open up as well. With the warm temps and rain this week, I wouldn't trust it any more with a sled or ATV. Most certainly wouldn't stray to far from shore. The ice was hard in some areas and 10 feet away was very soft. Where there was close to 3ft of good ice last weekend there was 18"-2ft of very soft stuff then they remainder was good ice. The main lake had lots of soft black ice that with the sun beating down on it will most likely go very quickly I'll wait to see how the ice holds up but I'm pretty sure my ice season is over. Time to get the boat ready.

Here's a few pics from the day.

Ice looking near the end.

Shoreline ice disappearing

Last time on the ice for Dad? Maybe not. Since he lives up there it may be very easy to get out in the next day or 2.

The end result, minus a few. Some people just can't wait, not that I can blame them

Mine are always on the boat. A very valuable tool to have.

Happy belated birthday!!! I hope you had a good one.

Hope your having a great day Wayne!

Have a great day!!

I wouldn't let HD install anything either. My girlfriend has had a couple of things done by them and we were not impressed at all. Ie. - going to have to have all the carpets re-stretched, lifting and buckling. Bigger bucks to install then some others I had quote me when I was getting new doors put in a well. (almost double the price) Friends of mine had the guys come out 4 times to get their kitchen counter top installed, they kept cracking the top. Some others might have had good experiences but I've heard of none.

Well a belated happy birthday. The pics say you had a great one!

No perchies in my freezer either HH. This coming weekend may be the last if the warmer temps come in that they are predicting. If I get out this weekend it will be Sunday. The boat will be available as soon as the ice is gone. Lots of perchies to be had then.

Great news Maureen! HH and I were talking about the event yesterday and were wondering about the totals. Thanks for the update and congrats on all your hard work.

The bite was very slow and unfortunately we never got into any jumbos. But the company and the laughs sure made up for the size of the fish. It was a great day on the ice. I really wished that the winds would have picked up a bit more, that might have turned them on more. I'm surprised we lasted as long as we did with only 5 fish by 2:30ish you'd think we'd pack up and call it a day. It was my Dad suggestion of hitting out starting point one the way in. That certainly salvaged the day. After getting home last night I parked the sled for what will most likely be the last trip of the year. I looked at the boat and it's like it spoke to me and said it's time to get me ready. I almost started to unwrap it! lol Soon.....very soon. Thanks again HH for sharing another great day.