kickingfrog

Man. No more drinkin' and surfin' for me.

Thanks T.J. Have you been hugged today?

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

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.