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Highly unusual to see four cubs. Twins are common. Four is clearly too many for the sow to handle!

Not sure about BRAVE, but definitely HARD CORE..........

Anybody who does a shore lunch in shorts and sandals is HARD CORE.😉 Good read, Andrew! Doug

one word: AWESOME

Good stuff! I am sure the ice road is one hell of a lot better than taking it in by BOAT! 😉

I assume your ice road is still in good shape? Doug

scumballs..............

OIM, you might want to check your math..............8 C is about 46 F. 73 F would be about 23 C. But yes, spring is here, and it's ruining the ice fishing! Doug

Yep. But I had puff pastry in the freezer ready to go! Should have used it to make bear sausage rolls..........

The texture wasn't right for the contents. Think cream puff with chunks in it. 😮

Well, after I saw that rolled pizza made by misfish, I decided to try it with puff pastry. It was an interesting experiment. But I don't think I'd try it again.....🙄

PS) NICELY done, Brian! Want to trade some whities for some perch? 😉 (For any nitpickers out there who want to tell me that is illegal, I am JUST KIDDIN') Doug

what's a razor?

I have frozen cooked pasta - fusili and rotini - but they did not freeze well, they were all dried out when I thawed them. HTH Doug

the SECRET ARSENAL!!!!

Chris is one of the guys from this site I hope to meet in person some time. He also gave me some advice for a trip we did a couple years ago - including a marked map! Doug

That's the one! But I did discover that a tracked Argo doesn't actually go EVERYWHERE. The day we bogged the Argo, then shoveled slush on Mountain Lake to make a path to get out cured me of that belief.

There were four of you trying to get through the door at the same time. The MOST excited was Mac, and I bet he had a racing stripe in his underwear afterwards.

Go in by one of the back-country access points: https://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/visit/camping/access-points-for-backcountry-canoeing.php and contact the park for advice about fish species. Brook trout anglers are famous for being tight-lipped. In the spring, you WILL experience black flies, in numbers that have to be experienced to be believed. Good luck. Doug

Cliff, I assume you bought the bilge pump option? And they have an option to mount the winch fore or aft, with a second winch assembly on the rear wall. I'm on my third Argo, and fished out of the first one a fair bit. You do NOT have much freeboard at the bow because the driver and motor are both in the front. With two guys on the front seat it gets real dicey, especially if you get any waves. You will also find that forward speed with just the tires leaves a lot to be desired, again especially with wind. The outboard motor bracket I had on the first one worked well, but I no longer recall the max HP rating, maybe 4 HP? Of course, you have to climb into the back of the hull to run the outboard. I don't have the outboard bracket on my current Argo, and don't know if it would fit with the aft winch set-up. I don't intentionally take this Argo into the water. You might want to make sure your insurance covers you when you are on the water. The policy I had for the first Argo treated it as an ATV when it was on land, and as a boat when it was on water, so I had coverage wherever I was. Any questions just shoot me a pm, or if you'd like to shoot the breeze just pm me a number and good time to call. Enjoy! Argo's are fun! Doug

Fisherman, were you with me the time on Simcoe, mid 80's, Big Bay Point I think, that we saw half a dozen huts go screaming past us and explode on the pressure crack a mile or so away? I was with somebody in the BBRGC ice shack when the wind came up like a banshee. We had no cleats, and there was no walking without being blown away. We ended up cutting pieces of the carpet, tying them to our feet, and wetting them down so we had some purchase on the ice. It was fairly crazy.... Another time on Quinte, during a walleye derby, we were out in a well-anchored ice shack when the wind hit 100 km per hour. If one man left the shack to take a leak, the shack started lifting off. My buddy and I saw a number of shacks scoot past us, and one of them had a guy INSIDE - he waved at us when he went by! One of the derby participants was being blown along the ice and couldn't stop, so he stuck his foot down an open ice hole and was eventually rescued by another guy in the derby. Another crazy day - and the current was taking our HEAVY jigs down on about a 45 degree angle in about 20 FOW. Wind is not the friend of the ice angler.......... Doug

It strikes me as wrong, somehow, that a fishing forum should be talking about kinky stuff and sheep. 😮 Doug

I sure miss fishing Simcoe!!!!!

yes.

Agreed.