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Rick, are you working at a high end fishing lodge or something? Doug

You have a regular bakery going there, Rick! Doug

I asked my young lad to look at the one patch where we got a huge harvest last spring. No sign of them there yet........

Thanks for the reminder! So where are those fiddleheads I found the other year??? (I am like a squirrel that forgets where he buried last fall's nuts....) 🙄 Doug

beat me to it.........😉 Nice pics, Rick! Doug

and what are they? I see lots of cheese, but what else? Doug BTW, good to see you back on YOUR thread!!!

M2B2??? WELCOME BACK RICK!!! I take it you are back from the US? We need to get together for some canned moose and smoked sturgeon. 😉 Doug

tagged for interest........

Looks fabulous, Brian. Did you take some back ribs, brine them in a bacon brine (or rub), then smoke? Don't think I ever saw "baby back ribs" for sale? Doug

You have to put ball bearings in reels?????

Yep. There were 2 guys out there the day before. They were sitting on blown-together pack ice that moved up and down when you walked on it.🙄

On the St Lawrence River, 2 days ago. In my opinion, the guy is nuts.

You and me both............🙄

Yep, that was where I got mine, for sure! Doug

Hearst Air Service offers float trips and trips in to Hawley Lake, where Albert's cabins are located: https://www.hearstair.com/sutton-river-specs/ I agree, Cliff, a float trip once would have been just the ticket, but those kind of activities are in my rear view mirror. But the HAS Sutton River prices are north of what the OP was looking for.... Doug

Yep: https://www.ontario.ca/page/guide-eating-ontario-fish I have used this guide pretty extensively over the years. If memory serves me, it started in the 80s (paper copies of course) Doug

OP, please check your inbox. Doug

Yep, same here! Your pizza and calzone look mighty toothsome! Doug

I am sure this would be the case. same for an Argo without tracks, they just high-centre, wheels turn but the Argo stays where it is. A Wilcraft has slightly more ground clearance, but a much longer wheelbase and yes for sure would be SOL in deep snow.

Less money than an Argo, top speed according to my buddy 40 kph. My Argo cannot do 40 kph. Different machines, for sure, and I agree that it would be a lot of money for an ice fishing machine. My buddy was saying, the Americans are pimping them out, with bow-mount electric motors, power pole electric anchor pylons, etc etc and using them as bass boats but in swampy stuff. Who knows, that would not appeal to me! It was a very cool experience to be out in that rig. Doug

That rig is completely amphibious (like an Argo), all wheel drive (like an Argo), but the rear tires especially provide more power in water than an Argo's wheels do. The chassis is all aluminum and can be raised and lowered by hydraulics. There are four holes in the floor for fishing, a superstructure very much like a pull-over ice hut, and an after-market diesel heater that keeps things toasty inside. (Way too toasty for my liking, but I was a guest.) One can ice fish without stepping out of the rig for anything. It is a VERY neat rig. Doug

I think I know whose it was.........and what a coincidence, I opened up this thread to talk about it. I was out in it today, and YES it does pull itself back up on the ice when it breaks through. We did that twice today. 😲 The ice was a bit sketchy........ Doug

"Track pressure" for an Argo is a lot less than a man walking, AFAIK. But still, with a LOT of experience driving Argos, I do not take them onto thin ice. I DID try this a few times, and the results were not inspirational....not with tires, and not with tracks. Doug

That's a BEAUTY!!! Doug

That looks like Colin, who owns Sills Argo that produced the video apparently. Not many people have more experience in an Argo than he does. The Argo in the video has a rear winch installation, which is an option (and which I did get). Moving the winch requires serious effort, and in real life would be much harder, for me at least, than is shown. The one time I was bogged in my very first Argo, and I anchored my spud bar to use as a strong point for the winch, my spud bar BENT. As I said previously, it is hellish difficult to get an Argo back up on ice once you break through. But you won't drown. Doug