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I was looking at a manitoba web site and they had this posted, it is a pretty good 30 second spot. When you get to the home page clik on watch the commercial I'm not sure if the link will work but if you type out the info you should get on the site http://www.lakemaidbeer.com

here in NW Ontario our season opens next weekend. besides that our lakes are still ice bound. it will be a miracle if they are open for the opening of walleye season.

I put the stickers inside my boat right beside my measuring tape decal. They are great for a reminder that big fish are there to put back and get your fishing buddies thinking the same way.

If you're driving to red lake, takeyour time, the locals up here are calling for the ice to go around the 19th. I guess it depends on whether or not we get some rain. I'm on gullrock and each day it opens up on my shore line, at night it re-freezes. Temps are below zero each night and it doesn't help the melt. There are some of the smaller lakes open on the highway from Vermilion Bay to Red Lake but all the bigger lakes are still ice bound.

It has never been explained to me why when the price per barrel of oil goes up, the gas at the pump is increased in price immediately but when it went down on the price per barrel, it takes 6 weeks to work it's way through the system.

Have a good time fishing guy, up here we will still be watching for the ice to go out. BOY AM I JEALOUS!!!

I didn't win that prize but I just got an email that told me i've made it through to the second stage of the publishers clearing house sweepstakes!!!!

I got 2 pails of alive for christmas, and they look good so far, mind you they haven't been opened. I believe that the previous post stated the gulp produced nothing. well I don't use it for a primary bait. I just have it in case I run out of minnows and worms. Nothing like having some kind of back up bait when you're miles from home and still have time to fish.

I enjoyed it too. the kid got a few zingers at his dad.

thats an interesting link and from what ive seen it stops short of the Red Lake area . Nungessor will not be seen on this photo

my buddy had just finished telling me we had to move because there was nothing in the spot we were fishing

thanks for the help I think I will be able to do this now.

I started out by reducing the size of my photos to 480 x 360 pixels, then hit the upload and the first picture went thru. then I tried to add a second picture the same size and my upload was rejected because there wasn't enough room with the 250K size limit . How do you guys add the multiple pictures to your reports and replies that makes them sooo good! I was thinking about using the photobucket.com album i have but i don't know what option to choose from that site either. any help in this would be greatly appreciated.

I took this picture off my front deck 15 minutes ago. you can see lots of ice and snow on the ground.

I would agree with Kevin. it has been going down to -7 to-10 at nights here. Nungessor is 35 Km north of here so it might have been colder there. I can tell you that Bug River, which is a stone's throw from my house was open last week, this morning it was frozen over again. The temp today is +4 and all the little puddles along the highway are frozen again. I am hoping the snow will be gone by May 18 and the lakes will be open, it's going to be nip and tuck unless we get some rain to knock the crap out of the ice. If the lakes are open, the fishing might be good. However, i find that the opening weekend is usually slow for the walleye. they like the warmer water before they get active and if the ice has just gone, it willbe a cold water fishery. I talked to a game warden yesterday and he told me when he worked the weekend of the walleye closing the fishermen were not having too much luck in the areas they normally fish prior to spawning. He thinks the spawn is at least 2 weeks behind schedule. I hope you get into the lake ok and have a great time. Nungessor is a great fishing lake, from what friends of mine who guide on it tell me.

Boy I sure am jealous of you guys in Southern Ontario. Fishing on the soft water must be great. Right now we are having winds of 45kmph its a wind chill of -17 and we got 10 inches of fresh snow. I had fun coming home this morning from night shift on a highway with an ice base, and moguls on the travelled portion of the road. I was luck, my lane had been plowed the northbound lane still had 6 inches of snow on it. All the highways in the area are closed due to the weather, Highway 17 is closed from Ignace to the Manitoba border and the highway north to Red Lake is closed too. Enjoy your sping guys and PRAY FOR US; maybe it will help bring in the spirng.

Monday morning I bought gas in northern Minnesota for $3.44 a gallon. I took 20 gallons . If I converted that to litres it works out to 78.3 litres. The gas cost me $57. At home here in Red Lake the same amount of gas would have cost me $101. I don't know why the guys in the USA are complaining.

you're right I'm totally jealous of your temps.

It looks like you got some good stuff there, but, and theres always a but. I make spinners as a business and I rarely use a #4 hook. I think they are too small and too easy to swallow. if you plan on releasing the fish the #4 hooks go too far down the throat and when removed slice the fish's liver and other organs. the fish dies so the release was a waste of fish. When I tie spinners, I use 25 pound trilene xl for the strength and abrasion resistance that comes from bouncing on the bottom. To get the length I want I just hold the line and measure up to my shoulder and cut it that size. when it is finished there is about a 30 inch leader. I use a 2/0 hook with a medium to long shank, depending on the minnow size that will be used. I will use 5 4mm beads and then a #2 clevis to put the blade on. Everyone has their own method of tying the hook onto the line but I find that it doesn't matter if it is perfectly straight since the spinner causes the minnow to spin in the water anyway. Hope this helps.

yup, you read it right, 30 inches of ice. Gullrock Lake is on the Red Lake chain of lakes, there are 5 lakes interconnected : Red Lake -- it flows into Chukuni River, Chukuni River flows into Keg Lake , then the river starts again and flows into Gullrock Lake, then back into the river again that flows into two island lake. On the eastern end of Gullrock you go up a large creek into Ranger Lake. We are 350 miles northwest of Thunder Bay; 110 miles north of Vermillion Bay (Eagle Lake's main village); 180 miles north east of Kenora and the Lake of the Woods; 45 miles north of Ear Falls (west end of Lac Seul) In other words, right in the heart of some of the world's best fishing!

I have those fishing dreams starting usually in January and they just get more intense as opening day approaches. The only problem seems to be that I have to wake up and I can never remember if I got that big one I had on the line

got home from the usa on monday and the snow was gone. Spring was definately in the air. yesterday Ichecked the 5 day forcast, going to -10 at nights, snow on Friday, and Saturday. Then today those buggers in the Dakotas decided to send us a storm and right now it's blowing at 40 kmph with ice pellets and snow. Now the weather man is saying we are in for 20-30 cm of snow. I don't ask much, just a few months of open water. but it looks like the ice won't be gone until the opening of walleye season up here. If we are luck!!!! I talked to a friend yesterday who went trout fishing on a lake east of here and there was 30" of ice on it. when you add the new snow we are getting, it's going to take forever to break up. Sorry for the rant but it REALLY is getting depressing.

The wife and I just got home from a trip to Owattana and thc Cabelas store, we also hit Gander Mountain, Dick's sports and Mills Fleet and Farm. It pays to shop around. I got a hummingbird 565 for the wife's fishing position on the back of the boat at fleet & farm for $175, (cabela's and bass pro wanted $199). picked up a eagle 640c for the front of the boat (where I direct the action) for $449 at cabelas. got a new mk510 battery charger, several baits (sonars & cicada's) , a new drift sock (reg $70 for $35) at cabelas. ram mounts for the depth finders and a universal sonar cord for the 640c. Got a deal on the optimax engine oil, $30 for a gallon, here in red lake the marinas charge $60 a gallon, so i grabbed 4 of them . Too bad I can only make the trip once a year , maybe it wouldn't run $1000 a trip for fishing gear.

its nice to know they sell rulers by the 12 pack

I talked to one of the ontario provincial police officers that I work with as to who is the enforcing agency for this card. His reply is that the Ontario Provincial police are in the province of ontario. When I mentioned the fact that the feds are telling me there is no central registry and asked how they could verify if a person had a card or not, he told me that you must CARRY the card on your person when operating a boat and if you can't produce the card when checked it was a $65. fine. He said it doesn't matter that they can't check to see if you have one, the assumption will be that you don't have one. Looks like just another harrassment tool to me!