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Here is a picture of some of the walleye spinners I make. This is about half the colours that I have available. Just thought I would post an image to see how much interest there is in them, and if I should put an add up in the classifieds. They are currently displayed without the hooks, but when complete they have a #4 baitholder hook and a wire stinger shaft with an aberdeen hook as a trailer. I can post or email other pictures if anyone is interested.

Fished the lake a few years ago early in the ice season from Okimot Lodge. Was a great time, but the fishing was tough to put it kindly. 8 of us for the weekend were skunked on Tomiko, not even a hit. Better chance of a little action if you fish the other small lake attached to it, forget the name. Pike are more predominant in there, and at least the perch are a little more cooperative if you can find them. Good luck!

Thanks everyone for your help. Will see if I can find what I am looking for for at any of these places. Never dreamt it would be so hard to find a little long marabou in black! These muskie are already driving me crazy this year!!

Does anyone have any advice on where to purchase 6" long black strung marabou?? Was hoping to make up a bunch of Boo style spinners this spring but cannot seem to source out the black marabou at 6" long. Real Pro's is apparently sold out and is unable to find it themselves.

His findings sound right. Left the family cottage on a small lake near Bracebridge on Sunday after finding terrible ice. For the first 100-200' there was 4-5 inches of ice although mostly white, from there it got thinner and really scary. There was about 6 inches of snow that fell on the skiff of ice that remained through the warm spell and left the lake in a terrible mess and it was not recovering all that quickly. Hopefully the last couple days, and the next few fix those lakes up for everyone.

You can build a great sled out of wood with a little effort and the suggestion to use downhill skis was a great one. Do not use cross country skis as they are far too flimsy and will break in no time at all. I have built two sleighs to date, one for pulling by hand, and another for pulling behind a snowmobile. If you are only going to use it without a machine the sleigh will last for years without maintenance if put together well. Just make sure that you mount the skis at least 6 inches below the deck of the sleigh so that you do not get hung up in fluffy snow or pack ice. I built a 2x2 frame and covered it with 3/8 plywood, all screwed together and then mounted an old plastic truck tool box in the center of it. At each end I screwed down a milk crate which works really nice for 5 gallon pails or propane cylinders. The sleigh is 20 inches wide which provides lots of stability when pulling by hand. The other one I built was for behind the snowmobile, and it worked really well but the operator needs to be smarter than me and keep the speeds to a minimum. It was built the same as the one above, except I mounted two 4' 2x4 outriggers on top of it(centered perpendicular to the length of the sleigh). I then mounted a third and fourth down hill ski on the ends of the outriggers. I used a 1" steel tube for a tongue which worked well if speeds were not excessive. This sleigh worked really well, even used it to set up our modular 8x12 hut. This is a really cheap way to build a sleigh for hauling gear behind a machine, and as long as you collect old downhill skis from the curb you can change the odd broken ski by removing a few screws in minutes. If you keep speeds to 30-40km/hr and excercise caution around pressure cracks and pack ice a sleigh like this will do you fine. Hope that helps.