chris.brock

If you're heading east just for the heck of it, Nova Scotia and PEI are great, but NFLD is magical.

I certainly hope you're not suggesting Forcillo was justified or acted in self defence. Forcillo is a psychopath, Muzzo is a spoiled, irresponsible idiot. Lots of high profile trials, Cosby, Gomeshi, the Dan Blasthma trial, but I have a hunch the injustice is coming in the Forcillo trial, even with a decent video of the disgusting incident.

Funny, I thought the same thing as Adam. Congrats! Good Times! If you need any newborn/ parenting advice, don't hesitate to ask.

It probably was hardly any but the EPA also killed that model. Funny, on Kijiji you can find them in Quebec, used, a few years old, listed for more money than they were sold for new at the dealer. It is a niche market but the market exists.

I know all about the EPA stuff. I think it has more to do with they make more money on a Cadillac than a Cavalier. For ice fishing and the bush, I don't care about power or fuel economy. I want light weight flotation and of course reliability.

I think the Bombardier stuff is better now than it has ever been. It's a shame nobody makes a simple, light, 340/ 440 long track, ice fishing, bush sled anymore. Huge suspension, big horsepower and electric start aren't necessary in a utility sled. I would go fan for sure and compare the Polaris versus the Ski Doo. I like Yamaha but I don't like their current models as an ice fishing sled.

What's the story there? That plane looks to be on wheels.

The video is great, nice fish, well done! I think I recognize the first hole but who knows.

Still not diggin it and I have no clue how to make the All Star Weekend more interesting. Good man Captain Scott though. Just scored, very cool, love it!

I'm not really diggin it, I would way rather watch a Saturday night HNIC Leaf game.

Looks like a successful day to me. How do you determine it's stocked, clipped pelvic fin?

Looks like you've got a productive place there Bri, yep, love the stick, let us know how you do tomorrow.

Cool pic. What tough guy was riding an Inviter?

It looks like 2 people screwing around for an hour to set that thing up, no? What's the advantage over a regular tent? I don't hate tent trailers. It's the cost, maintenance, storage, towing it, set up, tear down etc, that out weighs the benefits IMO

I think u need a smack

We were talking pike and mostly spoons, but here's what Jack Penny said on the topic, pretty interesting, I poached this from Mike's forum- Good question Chris. I have a couple of thoughts on this. First off, I think you might actually hook more with a treble hook but pike can dislodge a treble a lot easier than a single hook so that's nearly a wash. In other words, I may hook more with the treble but I get more to boatside with the single so who's the winner there? And I do believe that I get more bites with the single hook, no doubt about it in weeds, so in that area, advantage single hook. But you asked about the actual hook up percentage and my thoughts on that are that I think I hook just as many with the single as I do with the treble but there's a small trick I use. Sharp hooks! Most guys I watch don't ever think about this, but I carry a hook hone with me always and in the course of a day I use it at least 30 times, probably more. Pike have a very boney mouth and if hooks are not sharp sometimes they will slide across the boney areas and you won't get hooked up. But with a hook that is hypodermic sharp, any time that hook starts to slide it will normally make contact and penetrate. And so Chris, if you are in a boat, and you have one very sharp single hook on a spoon while your partner is fishing the same spoon sporting a treble that hasn't been sharpened, I can almost guarantee you will land more pike. Chris, I have to say I admire your position on the pike's welfare. Trebles do harm more fish and do more harm than single hooks. This is the exact reason I started using single hooks. And you state that you don't really care about getting every fish to the boat. That's good because you will never get every single fish to boatside. I have fished with some very high profile fishermen, Lindner, Dahlberg, Maina, Stange, Straw, and others and I can tell you that none of them got every fish to the boat either. That's just part of fishing. And while we're on this single hook issue, I want to tell you that this is not limited to spoons. I use them on several other lures too. Like hard bodied swimbaits. The Sebile Magic Swimmer is a fantastic pike lure, but sports two trebles. Many times, that rear treble will get lodged in the eye of a fish. I prefer to remove those trebles, add a splitring to the one that's already there (so one hangs below the other) and attach a single hook so that it faces forward. The additional ring allows the hook to be pointed forward but also makes the hook nearly impossible for the fish to throw it. I've also used this trick successfully with Jerkbaits like a Suick and Eddie and Bobbie and Reef Hog. Good luck out there!

I wanna thank everyone that helped me out today. Not my proudest moment.

I can borrow my parents tent trailer whenever I want, and I've used it quite a few times, it's cool, but I would never buy one. I would go Wrangler with a rack set up and the 12' boat on top so you can go wherever you want off road, sleeping on the ground in tent. So uncomfortable/ uncomfortable, but very mobile.

I have a pilot buddy with a "doesn't give a pooh" attitude and a float plane. I'm intrigued, you?

Although not nearly as cool, seeing Mike and Dave's retro pics, I thought I'd throw this up. Yeah, I have some free time right now. Working as a summer student for the DFO on an electrofishing boat, we got this in Hamilton Harbour. The current angling record was 36 lbs and this bottomed out an old 50 lbs spring scale. Crappy picture and it's the only one I have.

I might be mistaken, but I don't think Dave is in the pics? Dave? How do you guide if you're not on the tiller? Giant specimens for sure!

That's hardcore! Just curious, what piqued your interest for that specific lake with so many in the region?

Maybe go with a set up like mine. A clean burning, engineering genius, Hahahaha

It just seems like a shame to build a well insulated, masterpiece like that, and then have to open a window. How do these ice bungalow outfitters do it? You don't hear about problems with CO for them and there's likely lots of guys loaded.

I don't know, there's thousands of man hours spent in heated huts every year and very few incidents. I would guess CO is only a concern if you plan on sleeping in your hut or if you plan on getting so loaded that you wouldn't notice the onset of poisoning. I know of 2 guys that died from CO in a hut, they were sleeping over night in the hut and likely were really loaded.