Joeytier

Awesome! What an insane winter fishery!

2 days, 2 tanks! What a weekend guys

I drove my sled way down Temagami yesterday...80% bare ice. With a passenger and sleigh full of gear, I could barely do 30 km/hr. Will be nice when the snow drops Monday, everywhere needs it.

Yep, I remember it being 17 bucks when I bought it. Money well spent. Very detailed depth charts.

...on the plus side, we have an absolute buttload of ice now. -29 tonight on bare ice. Gonna need the auger extension on Nipissing before February this year if this keeps up. Snow took a beating north of 17, but still enough to ride. Never had much to begin with this year though, too cold to snow 90% of the time.

Is that a snowblower with one of those gardening store trolley's welded onto it?

Watched it this morning...awesome vid Simon.

'wont stay running' is kind of vague...how long will it stay running for before it dies, and does it idle well before sputtering out?

Yep, take beers out of the fridge the night before and into the cooler before ya go.

Yes, most of the stocked lakes back there are very easy access and heavily pressured. Some good fishing to be had if you check your stocking lists and try to find more difficult places to get to. Having said that, it's pretty easy to get anywhere back there with a skidoo, which you will see plenty of.

There are a multitude of 5 and 7-inch units in that price range on the market, and I think you would be perfectly happy with just about any of them. I would suggest either the Lowrance Hook 7, or Humminbird Helix 7. Everyone has their brand preferences, but I'd be shocked if you were disappointed with either of those.

You picked a cold week to go. The park boundary area is definitely a good suggestion. Look into the frost centre canoe routes as well south of Dorset. As for bait, buy your minnows on the way up and just before you head into the bush, dump out the water and coat with salt, tie up the bag. Fresh salties are excellent ice fishing bait trout and walleye

A spreader is a good idea...ill have to try that sometime

Cool! Guess they'll occupy the same waters as lake trout in the summer, they just can't regulate their bladders. Ive never fished for them in more than 25 feet.

I was in about 20 feet, but very close to a deep trough.

Because I doubt she was outraged when her husband was encouraging oil companies to steamroll every last bit of their habitat in that province for oil

Legal does not necessarily equate to ethical, I think everyone can agree on that. But sustainable hunting is sustainable hunting, and it won't be a small amount of cougar hunters sounding the death knell for the large mammals of the world. Plenty of them to go around yet. Attacking other outdoorsman for participating in a legal, sustainable, and not to mention economically beneficial hunt will get you exactly nowhere, folks. Ignorant reactionaries are given far too high of a platform, why on earth would you possibly care what the wife of a scumbag ex-PM thinks about anything, much less big game hunting?

Nice couch on skis!! Love the lightbar, wouldn't last long in that spot on my sled though lol

Okay folks, what's the (probably obvious) secret to embedding content on the new layout? The old Youtube embed codes seem to be obsolete?

They can be an absolute blast when you can get onto them. We try to go a couple times each winter. Heavy glow spoons and half a shiner on bottom (or very close) catches pretty much every one for me. Always fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oycyJPhlPjw&t=103s

This was the first year since starting a family that I didnt volunteer to work Xmas, and I end up having to work from the 22nd straight thru to the 27th...d'oh

You got the headstart, but we've about as much ice as you now, we got lucky and haven't got peppered with the epic early season storm we usually get.

Don't need much ice when ya got er right to bar I guess...I still had to do a double take when I saw that lol

There were a whole bunch of skidoo tracks on the northeast arm today. I was on 7+" on a small lake North of Temagami.

Any excuse to stay home eh...I guess the thousands and thousands of Americans that flock here year-round are out to lunch.