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When I was a kid, I used to watch some of the games in my room while my dad was watching in the living room. My TV always lagged a little behind his, so when I heard him cheer, I knew something good was about to happen. Start planning the parade route.......... no one will go to the parade but start planning the route.

I always get steps 5 and 6 wrong. Beauty fish. Knew I should have paid more attention in Mr. B's class. :p

It's all just a nickname unless you call them Esox Lucious and Sander Vitruis. So there. Y'all are wrong. By the way. MNRF byes' only know them as 334 and 131....... might have been 121. Someone on the forum will get that reference.

Haha thanks guys. We had em hidden here so the crows and gulls wouldn't eat em. I'll bring my grandfather. He'll confirm and you'll get along great. He's almost as essentric as you are...... almost.

Such a cool gift.

First of all, thank you to everyone for all of the recommendations. We couldn't be happier with Reeds fishing huts. A+++ people and accommodations all the way. Needless to say, we will be going back next year once again to spend an overnight. We decided that we would do a weekend fishing lake Nippising this year. Usually once a year I like to bring my mom and my grandfather someplace nice to get some primo ice fishing in. This year, the girl I'm seeing, Sara said that she would like to come. She had never been fishing before and wanted to see what the excitement was all about. We left for North Bay Saturday around noon. Got up to our hotel room around 4. After dinner and some cards, we hit the beds relatively early. I wish I had pictures of the first night, but it was pretty straight forward stuff. We wake up on Sunday and go out to meet up with Reeds. I drive out on the ice, which is a shock to everyone. First, they couldn't believe there was a parking lot made on Lake Nippising, second, they couldn't believe that I was going to drive my car out on it. Melissa was parked right beside us. After loading all of the gear up and meeting her lapdog Fin (Ha) we were on our way. The 5km ride out to the hut was a real treat. None of my family had ever ridden a truck out on the ice, and with the temperature being -22 I know everyone was nervous about my grandfather getting out there. Melissa explained that the day huts were taken in so we were getting an overnight one. What a treat! Our ice home for the next 6 hours. Melissa explained that with the warm weather the fishing had been a little slow and set us up. Between the conversation and the food we really didn't mind all that much. Some perch came and went. A handful decided to stay for dinner (We kept 7 in all, 4 of ours and the Reeds gave us 3 more big ones they landed) About mid-day I go out for a bathroom break. I hear inside the hut, yelling and my mom and Sara sounding very happy. I rush back inside to see this. I leave for 6 minutes and Sara catches the biggest fish of the day. A beautiful herring. I was sad I missed her real it in, but she was an absolute champ, taking the fish off the hook, asking how to hold it. After that, she was hooked. She wanted to put her own minnows on the hook, was asking all about the lures. Was playing with the sonar. I ended up losing a big whitefish at the hole which was silly. Couldn't figure out how to get it up into the cabin without breaking the line (seriously, ask my grandfather about the size. This was no fish story) All in all was a great day. As I mentioned, we ended up keeping a few. My grandfather was happy. He loves fresh fish. And I got to spend more time with the ones I love doing what I love. A final parting shot with out 'Lucky Touques' my mom made for us. See you next year Lake Nippising. We'll be back, and staying the night to get the late night and early morning bites.

Soooo much to learn. I had one that showed the 'fish' rather then the arch. I learned quickly that the size of the fish was relative to the depth. So a 'massive fish' in 2 ft of water may have been a sunfish. Same thing with my flasher. Took me forever to realize what were marks, bubbles, interference. Etc.

Yes! Be there Sunday!

Nice! Nip for us on Sunday. Hope we have pics to share.

If you're bored, read the comments to this article. It has everything from people bring Carp over in their luggage to now Asian Carp getting into the Oceans. I haven't laughed this hard all week.

Counting down the hours. Weekend up on Nip with the family and the hopefully soon to be family.

He did a great job playing defensive last night. : / blew another one with <2 minutes left.

You know it's a bad trade when they say 'not enough room on the team for all the prospects'. It's like saying 'I have too much pitching'

Holy cow Matt. And you think the Leafs fans live in a dreamland. I'm not sure the Sens PR folks could have drummed up the kind of support you gave for the past 2 trades. At least the Stalberg one didn't cost that much.

I just can't see if or why they will bring Boyle back. Specially because he probably isn't going to be 2 million next year. Don't know much about the prospect that Ottawa gave up for Burrows but apparently he is pretty good? Reading the articles now. Holy cow. Can't quite figure out why Ottawa made that move. Really a head scratcher.

This. Agree 100%.

They were saying Boyle can play 3rd line centre as well.

Not sure I understand this move. Does this mean Bozak is gone next year?

If this is what it takes to go to your secret spot, I'm in.

Agreed with both 100%. Lets go back to the old style rules. I have no problem with ties. Everyone plays for the 3 point game now and it makes it impossible for anyone to gain ground when it comes to the playoff picture. Tampa has been like a house on fire but they are still 5 points back with 5 teams in between them and a playoff spot. They may still make it, but I'm not putting money on it.

Andreson was incredible but so was Lundquvist (except we expect it more from him). Could have easily been another high scoring game if both goalies weren't stellar.

Love the 3 on 3. Let's have more of that and less shootouts. The girlfriend was watching with me, when it went 3 on 3 I told her she was in for a treat. First 3:30 I said 'hmmmm. It's not usually like this' last 1:30 we were both on the edge of our seats. Hunwick gets the 'overtime player of the game' in my books. Crushed one of the NY players with a beautiful body check, took the puck and made a rediculous pass to....... was it Komorov? Had Lundquivst beat but missed the net.

Wow. Outfitters shutting down before march. What a year. I still want to get out a few more times.