Fisherman

Icing it? yes ice fishing

I have a 16' with a 25 tiller, I troll the area around Owen Sound/Meaford. When the weathers nasty, there's always somebodies campsite and firepit to invade and shoot the bull while the waves calm down. I've seen many a day where even a 20+ footer would be nothing more than a statistic on the bay.

Actually, it was the only crappie, 3 booger rockets, but the intent was to go and get a couple of perch just for a fishwich at lunch. I might try Gilford area tomorrow if it's not too blustery out.

I'd look around and see if anyone else was there and go bug them for some info, next, make a big smokey fire, Wayne will fly by and think somebody needs rescuing. don't forget the SOS sign, dot over a square I think. All else fails, follow the "lay of the land" into the water and make an educated guess as to depth, go fish, make sure the drag isn't set too tight otherwise you might loose the first fish and your hook will be gone.

There I wuz justa fishin on the ize, when all of a zudden, zing goes the drag, darn another boogger rocket, nooooo, it's a honkin crappie. A little bit of seesawing and fling...outa the hole he comes, near landed right in my sleighbox. Wasn't on Simcoe, or the river that comes in the south end. I was sworn to secrecy or the other guy will stab me with a rusty fillet knife.

Pigeontroller: If there ever was one, that is a quoteable quote. Have a healthy respect for nature and the water and you won't find yourself in kaka.

Good to see Chucks back on the ice, mighty fine looking whitie Ryan.

There are some good ones in there, I guess I'll have to add a can of baby powder to the tackle box, just in case of a soaker.

Well before they delete/lock it, maybe someone should send the MIB to his house.

Nice chunky sized ones, good catch

Take it to a laundromat that has the BIF front load machines and use a very mild soap to wash it on the delicate setting, then let it hang to dry, should be good again. Ha, fishindevil beat me to it.

Finally got one worth taking a picture of, didn't think it was quite that long, but you can't stretch the stainless ruler

Well, grounding to the boat is contrary to what I have been informed of, all lights and other electronic options always run ground wires directly to the battery to prevent electrolysis on aluminum boats. I would be more inclined to mount the stereo unit in a dry box with a good set of electrical connectors for speakers and power. That way, at the end of the day or when things get foggy, or damp overnight, you have a dry stereo.

I kind of wondered about the legality of it too, seeing as how a downriggers intent is more to get the lure to a desired level, rather than setting the hook, although both are achieved.

Different twist to many of these, http://www.automaticicefisherman.com/

Hmmm, I see that guy can spell too.

As a trivial point, it's not the first province that went that route of issuing a "receipt" for minnows. When I was stationed in MB in the early'90's, you had to have a filtered try again please issued from the minnow supplier, and that filtered try again please was only good for 3 days, after that, salt the minnows.

26. Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"? Probably 'cause it has to do with "hemo", blood leaking out, otherwise if it was assteroids, well maybe your butt would fall out and then you'd be in a bad situation.

If I'm not mistaken the Yamaha exhausts to both, underwater and also has an above the waterline exhaust hole.

Well here's an alternative, Honda 2HP, $1045, 3Star energy rating, one better than Yamaha, 27lbs, thats 10 lbs lighter than the Yamaha, it has a shallow water drive that the Yamaha doesn't and, the model I checked and quoted comes with a centrifugal clutch that allows the motor to run at idle without the prop engaged. It's rated as the highest small outboard for fuel efficiency. Might be worth looking at. I'm sure 1/2HP isn't going to make any screaming difference on water speed, but 10lbs less weight might make it easier to balance the canoe.

A couple days ago it was reported to have 4 inches, I imagine a bit more since then. Coming back from N/B on sunday afternoon we passed Little lake, , we noticed quite a group on the ice, should be a lot more ice this weekend.

NOOOOOOO, 3x blue screen of death, 3x error reporting messages to MSN and finally had to plull the plug from the wall to reboot, not ever touching that one again, sorry. Well being the curious type, I gave it one more try, I got as far as geting to see Glen Echo Cottage site, backed out, then stuck again, maybe some setting or something in my computer that's doing it. I'll try at work tomorrow night.

There's more than one PB & Jamwich that's landed downside up on my floor.

I'm going to have to admit it was Ande...only 6lb, but new and the drag was set really light, so I can only suspect a couple of teeth did me in.

Last weekends trip to Rob Hyatt's on ice cabins went very well. Picked us up at the parking lot with one of his two enclosed sleighs, big enough to haul 5 guys and all the kit in one run. The 6 man sleeper huts are clean, period. Equipped with stove, furnace and 2 gas lamps 6 bunks/w mattresses, couldn't ask for more. Each hut has its own crapper and whizzer outside. He and his other assistants came by more than often enough, even clued us in about the dirt cheap bus run to town to check out the entertainment. Fishing was just that, caught a bunch of perch, a heering, one keeper sized walleye that made up the saturday afternoon snack bowl. One other monster fish played with my line, Rob was there to coach and witness it, just saw a massive flash of something swimming by under the hole, seesawed back and forth with it for 5 minutes, almost impossible to gain any line. He even fingered the line to keep it off the ice edges from fraying, but no luck, the line broke. Still a satisfying tussle, the fish one. Plans are already being made for next year. Again, I'd never hesitate to recommend him for a great trip. Can't get the pictures to load, try later..