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had a 25G tank for years and went through the cichlids, snakeheads, arrowanna's and the freshwater gamefish. Moved up to a 50G tank when I moved to oakville and kept Peacock bass for a few years. By far the most entertaining fish I ever had. They grow fast and are always moving around. Went on a business trip one week and something happened to crack the heater and short it out. Temp dropped to 60F and they did not last too long. A shame as they males were getting a nice hump on the head and the colors were spectacular. For those in the GTA area, there was an aquarium place in the Chinese mall on Dundas and this guy was still getting peacock bass every now and then. Too much work for me now.

I did my 16ft Lund with 1" chrome tube that Home depot sells. Same exact layout as the casting deck link. It worked out fine with 1 cross member that went under the supports to the floor of the boat.

Malcolm and I were off the 12th on Saturday out in no mans land. I got a really nice whitefish 6.5lbs early and then nothing for us the rest of the day. Missed a bunch and marked a bunch and that was just the start of the bad luck.3 miles from shore the belt on Malcolms ATV blows. I get a ride back to shore by Orillias version of Jeff Gordon- Wow 60km/hr over that rough ice siting on the back of a pick up tail gate did my rear end so much good. I could hardly walk when they guy dropped me off. I was so thankful for the ride though - great people up there to lend a hand to city folk. To top it all off another group of guys (locals again) heard we were stranded and picked up they're sleigh and pulled the ATV back to shore. They wouldn't take a nickel from us even for a case of beer (which they seemed to have plenty of at their hut). My hat goes off to those guys for their help. Malcolms working on getting a new belt but I think we're done for the ice season now. The best part was having to drive my Expedition down this mudslide to hook onto the winch cable on the first bike and pull that ATV and the the sleigh with Malcolms 600 on it back up the hill in reverse. I could hear the winch cable popping and straining and was afraid it was gonna come flying back through my front windsheild I know it could have been alot worse for us if those guys had not come along. In fact it went pretty smooth and real fast once we got going. My truck a mess with the mud. When I got home I found 2 broken rods, a broken spinning reel (BPS Pro Qualifier), 2 broken rod stands, my seat frame was bent (but repairable) and everything in my sleigh covered with mashed salted minnow slime. Seems my tupperware container smashed into a billion little pieces and those salties spread over everything. I had to set up my clam in the back yard and power wash the inside of the tent out. Hope I can get the smell out. A fatty for sure. Go Team 4

I've flyfish temagami for smallies over the years and found a handfull of patterns that out produce the rest Marabou muddlers in natural and white/yellows (size 4-1/0) big rabbit hair strip leeches (great pike fly too) deer hair poppers dahlberg divers wolly buggers Overwhelming best color has been black with splashes of orange and gold tinsel mixed in on all flies listed above.

betcha it was in the garbage bin

worms and craws in a double wide plastic tote - like a double wide shoe box - holds +100 bags gulp and twisters stay in their store packaging and go in a soft sided tackle tote bag. Bought it $9.99 at CTC and took out the 4 Plano trays to use elsewhere. Holds a whack of bags. Big front pouch for swimbaits, side pouches for odd stuff

This has been around for a while but just in case you haven't seen it go to you tube and type in Squirrel a pult. I can't get the link at work here but trust me. I laughed for days and have been trying to make my own now for a bit

Hey Solo, last week through the day there was a bunch of Stella's on ebay all ending around 3 pm. Had sizes from 1000 right up to 8000. About an hour before the end of the auction there were still a whack of them under $80. Darn it if my boss didn't drop by for a sit down "brain stormin" session. When he left it was 3:15 and I missed them all. Gee I hate being interrupted at work!!

In store special. Saw them at Xmas in Buffalo and they only had stock of the 1000 and 500 size. I think it was $129 or something around that

I hope they turn it around or it's gonna be brutal in the media. All I know is my Team Canada had Stamkos, St Louis and starting in goal would have been Luongo

I bet ya that cat could last through at least 2-3 muskies

not like it costs them about $10 overseas to produce a $300 reel. Who do they think they're fooling. And that folks is why I don't buy shimano!!!!!!

west side of lake was pretty consistent 6" of powder snow on top of 8" or more of good ice. The walk is a good workout if you are trying to pull a sleigh. Snowmobile trails are all over but no cosistent pathways to take advantage on. I was very glad to get a ride out on Monday. We walked a good way out and I was soaked pulling a Clam

I have 100ft right now on a 12lb anchor and store both the anchor and rope (coiled and tied) in a blue recycling bag. Any of the heavier recycling shopping bags would work too. I got tired of tripping over rope or having it loose in the storage compartments. I looked at different ways of storing the rope but they all took up too much space. Tried seeing if an air hose spool or extension cord holder would work but never found anything rugged enough to last and yellow nylon rope is the worst, get some good anchor rope like wb said

I hope it wasn't a Sage 4 piece

Hey Bondar I use a 12aH now that I purchases at Magnacharge in Mississauga for $43. Running a color Humminbird for ice fishing and after a full day hardly budged the voltage. They do sell a 20aH battery for only a couple bucks more but I found it really heavy and it is double wide over the typical 7aH

They have been building houses in Milton for the last 2 years non stop.

Only seen it one place this year and that was Fishing World Hamilton. $25 I think

I guess I was one of the lucky ones who scored the BPS deal earlier before Xmas. I did find them still for $299 at http://www.bizrate.com/fishing-gear/oid1651543875.html but don't know what they shipping would be though and if duty or taxes are on top but maybe worth a call I just checked LeBarons website to see $ and what's available and I'd recommend that Nanook over any I saw there for the $ they were asking. That Trekker 2 is a nice hut but $200 more. The Nannok is a super solid unit and the chairs are removeable not permanently mounted. I travel with only one with me and it gives me a ton extra storage with no bars or rods getting in the way. I can also lift it in and out of the truck by myself. The one and only drawback is I find that the bottom bar and skirt doesn't contact the ice as much as I thought it would. It's only a bit of an issue if there's no snow on the ice. The skirt then flaps a bit in the wind.

don't know the cost comparison but I have been really pleased with the Clam Nanook I picked up this year

oh my, oh my my my my bidding finger is getting real itchy. I have a small 8" desk top muskie they did a number of years ago. Advanced is definitely in a class by their own.

1/4 and 3/8 oz white maribou jigs have been a northern Ontario stable for lakers for well before I started fishing. For the oldtimers on Temagami no outing would be complete without a few of these in the tackle box. I can date back to when I was 19 (in 1983) on my first backwoods ice fishing trip in temagami and all of us where rigged with white or chartruese maribou jigs. Most were full body but we did have those crappie styles too with the chenille wrapped boddies. I tied them for a while with all kinds of variations. Best were ones with tinsel and flashibou mixed in. for those that custom tie jigs many of the most popular streamer flies make it into very good patterns on a jig head. Before I sold all my stuff used to tie all kinds of walleye jigs in these patterns for Quinte Mickey Finns Grey Ghosts Muddlers Rabbit strip Zonkers Wooly Buggers and even Dahlberg deer hair bodies and whitlock sculpins. Well tied hand made jigs are always worth a bit more than the mass produced with cheap thread and hooks. Give them a shot if you haven't already.

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My shorelander boat trailer needed work a few years ago and I was told of Excalibur trailers in Brampton. They were incredible for service and I'm planning to drop the trailer with them again this year for a new paint job They have some ATV trailers on their site and a neat double/side loader at the bottom of the page http://www.excalibur-trailers.com/other.html

snow crab legs, shrimp, chicken wings, and nachos it's a pick-em feast