kickingfrog

I'm going to wet myself!

8:11... I'm all tingly!!!

You win!!! But it's not tickets.

I drove by the bay today on my way home. There was no snow left. Can't speak to the quality of the ice, but I'm sure it's OK for now. Dig out your cleats.

Sorry if I scared anybody, I ment the fish.

I call DRUG test!

It's not the temperature Dawg... it's the shine thinnin' yer blood.

Nice! That perch looks like how I feel after Christmas diner.

Another consern... all of their atvs & equipment was left on the ice "flow" and there does not appear to be any plan to get the stuff off. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ernational/home

Nice job Ahab.

Just up-datin'.

From the Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ernational/home 125 rescued, one dead in Lake Erie rescue Associated Press February 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM EST OAK HARBOR, Ohio — One person who was among those stuck Saturday on a kilometres-wide slab of ice that floated away from the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie has died, while 125 others were rescued, authorities said. The victim fell into the water while searching with others for a link to the shoreline, Ottawa County sheriff Bob Bratton said. Others tried CPR before the person was flown to a hospital and pronounced dead, Bratton said. Several ships and helicopters from Toledo and Marblehead, and from Detroit, were sent to rescue the people from the 8-mile-wide ice floe. Authorities said fishermen apparently used wooden pallets to create a bridge over a crack in the ice so they could go farther out on the lake Saturday morning. But the planks fell into the water when the ice shifted, stranding the fishermen about a kilometre off shore. Ice on western sections of Lake Erie can be more than a half metre thick, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Randel said. He said it started to crack as temperatures rose above freezing this weekend and wind gusting to 55 kilometres an hour pushed on the ice. Ice fisherman who regularly visit the lake have said this winter's thick ice has lured more people to the lake this year. “There was a heck of a city out there for the last week and a half, two weeks,” said 71-year-old Oak Harbor resident Peter Harrison, who has lived on the shore for 40 years. Ohio Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Jamey Graham said the state annually warns fishermen that there's no such thing as “safe ice.” Even in very cold weather, the ice on western Lake Erie is often unsafe because currents can easily cause the ice to shift. Firefighters in communities along the lake are trained for rescues from the ice and are often on guard when temperatures rise

Call us when you there.

Two issues here: line twist and line memory. Sometime the two appear together as a dynamic duo. Line memory has to do with the type and size of line as well as the spool it's on and going on. Soaking the line in water (if it is mono and will absorb it) will help as has been stated. If your line is "springing" off the spool or looks a bit like a uncompressed spring than line memory is the problem. Line twist is something you can try to control but it will always be present in spinning reels. The best you can hope for is to limit the amount of line twist. Again, the type and size of line will impact the amount of twist as will the lure and type of fishing you are doing. I do not posses the ability in type (or maybe the patiences) to try to explain the best way to re-spool your line. Quality swivels will help prevent line twist. Good luck.

Thanks for the reminder. My dad was right. Have a nice day.

You may have meant that... but what you said was: Less than a week ago you solicited some advise from this same site. You received over 50 responses. I can't/won't place a value on that advise, and I do hope things work out for you and yours. Maybe if someone had suggested that you pack-up your life and move to a third world country to live off your savings you would understand that what you wrote could been seen as insensitive to someone sharing something personal and painful. I am in no way suggesting the west or Saskatchewan is in any way like a third world country, just that picking up ones life and moving far from "home" as a first option to a problem may not suit everyone. Good Luck to Stoty and holdfast.

Son of a....

Mercer. cliff, bly, Monique, Karl

3 small Perch caught at 3 different sites in the general area (I kept moving in the hope of finding more cooperative fish) In reel cold temps like today, I cut holes just to stay warm!!!

If the pilot is unlucky, you may also see him crash.

How does that work with thick ice? I'm trying to figure out the best way for my set-up.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Story/National/ Daring aviator risks his life to bring history alive Test pilot will fly replica of the Silver Dart to mark 100th anniversary of the curious flying machine that put Canada in the record books From Wednesday's Globe and Mail February 4, 2009 at 4:32 AM EST A special and ancient-looking airplane sat on the polished floor of a Hamilton airport hangar this week. Surrounded by jet fighters and Second World War bombers, it conjured up the age of Leonardo da Vinci. A skeleton of steel and bamboo, covered with gossamer fabric and strung with silver bracing wires, gave it the look of a flying harpsichord. A few meters away, test pilot Bjarni Tryggvason sat at his laptop computer, running mathematical formulas that predicted how this intimidating machine might fly - and what he would have to do to keep from killing himself. This was no small undertaking. The airplane is a replica of the Silver Dart, a flying machine that put Canada in the aviation history books: In 1909, pilot and designer J. A. D. McCurdy flew the Dart from a frozen Cape Breton lake, capping years of experimentation with a group that included the legendary Alexander Graham Bell. Enlarge Image Bjarni Tryggvason will fly a replica of the Silver Dart within the next few days. He calls it the most challenging test-flight assignment he’s ever taken on. (Peter Cheney/The Globe and Mail) Although Mr. Tryggvason's aviation background includes everything from jet fighters to the space shuttle (he flew on mission STS-85 in 1997), he considers the Dart replica the most challenging test-flight assignment he's ever taken on. "For this airplane, there is no prepared set of responses," said Mr. Tryggvason, who expects to fly the replica within the next few days. "It's a whole new world. Back then, no one really knew how to do this." Like the Wright Flyer, the Silver Dart is a throwback to aviation's risky beginnings. Pilots such as Mr. McCurdy confronted a set of hazards that no one really understood. Many paid the ultimate price. "We've spent the past hundred years figuring things out and improving airplanes," Mr. Tryggvason said. "These guys didn't get the benefit of other people's experiences." The search for information about the Dart's flying qualities has taken Mr. Tryggvason down a number of paths. Mr. McCurdy, who earned the first pilot's licence ever granted in Canada, wrote very little about his flights. Mr. Tryggvason pored over the cursory notes of an RCAF pilot who flew (and crashed) a Dart replica built in 1959 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mr. McCurdy's achievement. The pilot noted that the Dart was highly unstable, demanding quick yet tempered responses from the pilot. His flight ended when a gust of wind pitched the Dart into a steep climb that he was unable to counter. At the top of the climb, the Dart pitched over and crashed to earth, splintering it. The pilot was injured, but survived. Mr. Tryggvason has also tested models of the Dart replica in a wind tunnel, analyzing how the machine responded to controls. His tests revealed a series of potentially fatal flaws, including pitch and yaw instability, and an incorrect centre of gravity - the critical balance point that determines whether an airplane will fly correctly and recover from a stall. "This is not a typical airplane," Mr. Tryggvason said. "I have to analyze it and think it through." The new Dart replica was built by a group of volunteers who began the project nearly five years ago, working out of a garage in Welland, Ont. Among them is Doug Jermyn, a retired engineer who once built a high-performance aluminum airplane at home, using nothing but blueprints and raw material. But the Dart, he said, made even that look easy. "This was a serious challenge," he said. "There were a lot of things to figure out." Although Mr. Jermyn and his fellow volunteers scrounged up copies of some of the drawings made by Mr. McCurdy, Mr. Bell and their fellow experimenters back in the early 1900s, much was left out. To keep the machine authentic, the builders used tools and techniques from Mr. McCurdy's era. The struts that connect the upper and lower wings, for example, were shaped from planks with a carpenter's jack plane. The project has been given an extra bit of historical resonance by the participation of one of Mr. McCurdy's relatives - grandson Gerald Haddon, now in his mid-60s. Mr. Haddon, who fabricated some of the steel components in the replica, spent a great deal of time with his grandfather before his death in 1961. "He was my hero," Mr. Haddon said. "A truly unique and gifted man." The replica has been given a handful of refinements designed to improve Mr. Tryggvason's comfort, not to mention his chances of survival. Brakes have been added. (The original had none.) The bare plank that Mr. McCurdy sat on has been replaced with a padded seat and a rudimentary instrument panel made out of a cake tin has been attached to the framework. Then there's the fuel system. The original Dart used a simple, but dangerous, setup: the fuel tank sat behind Mr. McCurdy's head, so that gravity could pull gas down to the engine. In a crash, the crude tank would probably rupture, turning it into a Molotov cocktail centimetres from the pilot's head. The replica uses a burst-proof fuel cell from a racing car, mounted far from the engine to reduce the chance of fire. Mr. Tryggvason has overseen the modifications and improvements with the keen eye one gets when one's life is on the line. He hopes to fly the replica within the next few days at the Hamilton airport. After that, the Dart will be disassembled and loaded into a pair of transport trucks for the trip to the lake ice near Baddeck, on Cape Breton, where Mr. Tryggvason hopes to fly it on Feb. 23, exactly 100 years after Mr. McCurdy's flight there. His flight plan is based on survival: "I'm going to fly straight ahead," he said. "If I get to 20 feet, that'll be fine. I want to come back in one piece."

Carefull, that boat is for sale on kiijji or whatever.

I'll take a guess. It looks a bit like a match fishing poll like you would see in Europe. You just tie the line to the end. Not sure though. Neet stuff!