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Trucks on ice still? Are people nuts? The ice came on late, it has been crazy warm the past couple weeks and tons of wind. Recipe for disaster. I would be a little concerned about walking out to fish, parking a vehicle on the ice would not even enter my mind.

very neat! Kinda like when you catch a musky with unique markings and then you catch the same one a year or two later! You are happy to see them thriving

Although I do keep my batteries indoors, I thought the "keep off the concrete" rule was no longer necessary. My understanding is years ago this was important, but the way they make batteries now it is no longer relevant.

personally I don't actually think any of 'em should be illegal, but if some kind of tip had to be...I would vote for the one you have to go over and set the hook yourself. I will admit when I was a young lad we would sometimes get distracted (beer involved) and who know how long it was before you noticed the flag up. Good thing pike seem to swim around forever before they swallow it, don't actually remember deep hooking a pike. Largemouth? Different story. I have caught a few bass this winter that have swallowed the bait and I set the hook as quickly as I could get to tip up.

it is the other ones that should be illegal! Quick hookset prevents swallowed bait

I guess when a sponsor paid for the motor you might be less careful with it!

awesome! sounds like a blast

very cool! Never seen one back its way successfully down the ice before.

has been a great winter of ice fishing for me...other than the last time out. All we got that time was one largemouth, all other trips were usually good for 5-8 pike/bass. I attribute it to mid-winter blaws...few more weeks and the fishing should pick up again

some great fish pics! Pretty sure I bumped into you at Petit Dragon that year you went to L St C the first time

I had friends on Rosseau a week ago, they said they had around 5 to 6 inches of ice. This was not too far from Windermere. So the ice was decent...but apparently they didn't have any luck with the fishing (were after lakers and walleye)

sorry, never fished there

You know how some guys go golfing on the day of their wedding? Well me and my men went ice fishing in our tuxedos at the exact spot being talked about here. Yesterday was actually the anniversary of that. Didn't last long...was around negative 30 that day and these were not insulated tuxedos.

oh yes those 30 lb barricades would most certainly keep me out🤫

I suppose it depends on how much extra $$. If it is 2-3 k extra, personally I would do the Yamaha. 5K more? I am sure the Merc will be just fine thank you very much!

haha you I bought a used one a couple years ago so I could have 6 rods going when fishing St. C with a couple buddies. I keep hoping that rod won't go off...probably have to stop the boat, maybe even reverse to get the fish in

very cool. Would have liked to see more fish, but what you gonna do

Amazing! I have never done a fly-in so have zero tips but I trust you will have a memorable experience! Congrats on this "family time" investment. If my wife even was remotely interested in fishing I would love to do something like this...but she isn't (which is weird because she sure seemed interested when we were just dating!)

I could...but I am only 51 and weigh 175. Not the biggest guy and not tooo old yet. Plus I bought a weight set a couple years ago for my 4 sons. Since they are too lazy to use it, and I am too Dutch to allow this purchase to be a waste of money, I do a few workouts myself each week. If i go through it would likely be the shock to my heart that gets me rather than the inability to get out!

wow you are bored! I think a lot of things in this world are "not quite as they appear to be" and apparently we can add some "smoked" meats to that list

ya I tested ice strength earlier this year...went 30 feet out (about 3 feet of water). Ice was around 1.5 inches and I could hit through it with one hit of spud bar. I did walk around for a bit (5 minutes) and never went through...which actually surprised me. I expect it was only a matter of time...but since I did not want a wet boot I kept my stay short. This was possibly the first time I have used my 25 year old spud bar....every other year I have just waited until I knew it was safe. But for those who venture out early, a spud bar would be a very valuable tool. Not sure how many hits before you would consider the ice safe...but it isn't one!

years ago I was fishing L St. John near Orillia. I was catching pike after pike from the same hole. Well don't you know...the clown who set up around 60 feet away comes and drills a hole like 10 feet from the one that was producing! Best part was he didn't get any...served him right

congrats! I didn't know people target whitefish in 23 feet of water.

I needed to be able to select 2! On St Clair for me "natural light" has been great. But that same lure on other bodies of water hasn't done much. On those other bodies bright orange has been the ticket. Since that one "natural light" bait has probably caught around 40 fish (and it still keeps going!) I had to go with that. Funny thing is, I have bought new versions of the same bait, and they just don't produce as well. Send out the old chomped up one...it is only a matter of time.

Ya we actually are having our bell disconnected today! We have been paying $220/month for satellite tv, internet and home phone (which we do not need...but it didn't save us anything to cancel just that). Well with homeschooling we have discovered that our internet is total crap (5 mbps??? or something like that). Only one kid could be on video call at once...but we have 4 kids! Anywho, when may wife called them for better internet they were going to jack our price even more. She told them no way, gonna start shopping around. They basically did not care and made minimal attempt to keep us (were gonna knock like $20 off bill). Anyway, she found options for waaaaayyyy cheaper. After some hardware costs (ie android box) it was only going to be $70-80 a month and we would have more channels and 150 mbps (?) internet. Called bell to give last warning that we plan on leaving, would they drop pricing to keep us...nope. So we get the other stuff set up, call bell to let them know we are cancelling now and THAT person made the most sincere attempt to get us to stay....uhhh a little late we had already bought the android box, got a firestick and had the other company in to get us set up. You would think with people leaving in droves bell would scratch and claw to keep their existing customers. We did not have that experience!