Rizzo

beauty. For me April is just a dead month. The one month of the year where I do next to no fishing. Glad to see others catching!

hahaha...whoops. Wondered how still having 2 feet of ice led to a short season. My bad.

you think you had a short season.... here we are using our boats already!

sounds like with enough speed and some ingenuity...maybe

Yes I used it in the garage. When the winch broke we didn't quite have the boat as snug to the front as we would have liked. Just hauled it forward the last couple inches no problem.

It did still turn, just had no power move anything

arrived today and installed in minutes! Holes line up perfectly. Need to get the boat launched again to put the winch to the test!

kind of you to offer but looks like I have it figured out!

Thanks guys. I have been looking on line and found a "Camco 50000" winch on Amazon which has good reviews. Some of the pictures seem to show the same bolt pattern that I had on last winch...a bolt sized hole in one spot, and then a bit of a slot where the other bolt goes (allowing for a bit of flexibility of spacing). That is probably what I will do since I don't have a Princess Auto nearby. Had a look at some at Cdn Tire but they had poor reviews. The dirt cheap price didn't instill confidence either.

Took the boat out for the first time of the season yesterday...good news and bad. Boat worked great as it always has since I owned it, but when winching it up the last few feet on the trailer the winch stopped working. It was like the gears got stripped or something. Today I pulled the winch mount off...it was secured with 2 bolts. Do replacement winches usually have a universal bolt pattern?

between those two options I would have to go Kawarthas.

Not exactly a good year to get back into ice fishing either!

I agree. It feels to me the past few years winters have stretched well into April. This winter has been pretty gentle, wouldn't be surprised one bit if April is colder than normal

cute snook! No offence but I have never seen one that small before

Even though I rarely eat fish (maybe once a year? or once in 2 years?) i would always pick up a copy. Pre-internet days it was a good resource to know what kind of fish were in each lake.