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I would look into drop down axle systems. They are what is used on the commercial ice houses on wheels.
The system drops the hut down closer to the ice when you get to your spot.
The skis might work but will lift you even higher.
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Nope, don't like that goo.
Did put some malt vinegar on though.
I think they would taste good topped with my slaw too.
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melt the cheese next time, looks yummy for the tummy
It was well melted by the time I bit into it.
Thought about toasting the bun but it was too much work.
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This lure in yellow was a staple when I started fishing.
Caught so many fish on it back in the day.
Maybe I should try tossing them again.
Of course the Mepps Black Fury was heavily used then. It's still a really good lure for the whitefish up here in Yellowknife.
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I love watching him play.
Do you think they would trade him to the Leafs for the pylon?
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I am Mike, but the diet goes out the window when I'm sick.
Back to the diet tomorrow.
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Just had an awesome dinner.
Filet O Fish Alaskan style.
Halibut burgers are to die for!!!!
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Seems there's interest in the Phillsbury Doughboy!!
http://www.tsn.ca/trade-talk-kessel-in-the-sunshine-state-1.208497
Trade Talk: Kessel in the Sunshine State?
Phil Kessel, Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
The NHL's Mar. 2 Trade Deadline is approaching and teams are making decisions on whether to buy or sell and decide which players can make the biggest difference and hold the greatest value. Check out today's trade rumours and speculation from around the NHL beat. And follow TradeCentre on TSN and TSN.ca through Deadline Day for all the updates.
Phil the Panther?
The Florida Panthers are reportedly interested in beleaguered Toronto Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel with one main stipulation.
Florida Sun-Sentinal beat writer Harvey Fialkov tweeted Monday that the Panthers are not willing to part with a "young stud" to get him.
The Panthers have 10 roster players under the age of 25, including rookie D Aaron Ekblad and former first-round picks F Jonathan Huberdeau, F Nick Bjugstad, F Aleksander Barkov, D Erik Gudbranson and D Dmitry Kulikov.
Scout's honour
NHL scouts from around the league were out in full force for Sunday's action.
Chris Kuc of the Chicago Tribune tweeted that Montreal Canadiens general anager Marc Bergevin was listed on the seating chart for the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Pittsburgh Penguins, while Los Angeles Times sports columnist Helene Elliott tweeted a much more robust list of the attendees for Sunday's matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and Washington Capitals.
Twelve different NHL clubs, including the Toronto Maple Leafs and two scouts from the Tampa Bay Lightning, were on hand at the Honda Center to watch the Capitals defeat the Ducks.
Playing by ear
The Tampa Bay Lightning are apparently pretty open minded.
Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Bay Tribune wrote Sunday that the Lightning are reportedly in the market for a defenceman and a top-six forward and will likely be tied to remaining trade bait like D Jeff Petry, D Zbynek Michalek, D Andrej Sekera and D Marek Zidlicky.
Erlendsson writes that in Tampa Bay's current salary cap situation it would make the most sense to take on a rental player, however general manager Steve Yzerman can be unpredictable at times.
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I've known Gazoo for a long time Lew, way before he even started making lures. When we were younger I dragged him into the interior of Pukaskwa Park paddling and portaging to fish for brook trout. Also spent many days camping in the Bad River delta mostly walleye fishing. Back in the day he was more of a steelheader than anything else but times have sure changed.
Considering what he's been through in the last few years it does my heart good to see him doing so well.
And yeah his lures are pretty good.
Yep, I've known Gazoo for many years too.
I'm thinking since the late 80's or early 90's.
Not too sure as the oldtimers is settin' in.
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I bought a Perception Pescador 12 last spring and it is reasonably priced and works great.
I ended up adding a ton of extras to customize it for my fishing needs.
Added rod holders, milk crate, fish finder, anchor trolley and anchor.
I also picked up scupper plugs to keep the water infiltration down during the cold months.
I believe I paid about $700 US for the yak down in Florida.
I also bought a yak dolly, roof rack attachments for it and a hoist to hang it from the ceiling of my garage when not in use.
This winter I picked up a rudder for it off our local trader site that will be installed in the spring.
I think the customizing is the best part of buying one of these things, next to using it fer fishin' that is.
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why not?
did they just grab him to trade?
i know Olli is older, at 36 I believe.
Yep.
My guess is he will be gone before the deadline.
Most likely for a draft pick of some sort.
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Water proof phone case, multi-fit.
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Now we need to get rid of the Pylon and Phillsbury Doughboy!!!
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yup he is one mistake i don't see the leafs management being able to unload....unless
Maybe we can dress up as ISIS insurgents, kidnap him and lop off his head on camera in front of a green screen?
That way we get rid of him and his contract and blame it on the nut jobs from the middle East!!!
It's a win, win fo sho!!!!!
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Yep!!!
I'm now praying for losses each and every game.
Want to be a basement dweller with a better chance at McDavid.
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AHHHHH, you bought one of them spy tv's did ya?
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The music and lighting are just a couple of parts of the whole package and it seems to me MLSE is committed to making the Leafs a contender again. Look what they have done for the Raptors.
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I bet you will see a lot of changes by next season. They are doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes and it's not all about the players/coaches etc. They have hired Alan Cross to program the music for the games and in November they changed the Leafs home goal music and installed the on ice projection system.
Anyone that knows the music scene in Toronto will know of Alan. IMHO he is the most knowledgeable "new" music personality in Canada.
It's all in order to increase the fan experience as well as to help pump up the crowd during the game.
There are way too many other barns that rock way better than the ACC does.
Here's an article on the hiring of Alan Cross and some of the changes being made.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/02/09/maple-leafs-look-to-inject-life-into-acc-through-music
Leafs team up with Alan Cross to rock game nights
BY LANCE HORNBY, TORONTO SUNFIRST POSTED:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2015 04:57 PM EST | UPDATED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2015 10:57 PM EST
From left: Major League Mixes’ Alan Cross (left) and Dave Charles (right) — in charge of music at the ACC — pose with Steve Edgar, the Leafs’ manager of game presentation in their control room. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun)ArticleTORONTO - The Maple Leafs have come to know too well the parallels between a soulless building and a lifeless team.
Now they’re undergoing a musical transfusion, from a press-box control room to almost 20,000 seats. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has hired industry personality and “musical scientist” Alan Cross to shake up the game-night experience with the goal of making the Air Canada Centre a positive environment for the team and its loyal, but increasingly entertainment-starved, following.
Don’t underestimate what a pulsating beat, fused with a large, loud crowd can do for a team. The Leafs encounter it all the time on the road, in rinks such as the United Center and Bell Centre, the latter enhanced, ironically, when so many “real” Leafs fans show up.
The ACC has the numbers in terms of sellout crowds, but not the spirit, due in part to the Leafs facing the prospect of nine of 10 years out of the playoffs, a 48-year Stanley Cup drought and a large corporate season-ticket base that doesn’t excite too easily. Cross thinks he can at least reconnect with fans with the strategic use of tunes.
The Winnipeger created the popular feature, The Ongoing History of New Music, which airs on 102.1 The Edge in Toronto and in a dozen other radio stations, as well as run a music website. He and Dave Charles, co-founder of Q-107 and one-time president of the Juno Awards, have formed Major League Mixes Inc., with the Leafs the first of what they hope are many pro sports clients. The twist here will be involving both fans and players in the music-selection process, through new social-media platforms.
“It’s designed to freshen things up,” Cross promised on Monday when details of the rollout were provided. “We’ve included a lot of market research in this. We considered (the Leafs have many generations of fans) and it could be a 75-year-old is with his grandson at a game and both will have different tastes of what they think good music is.”
Cross and Charles will have a 500-song “core universe” list to play for all occasions and about 1,500 more selections in a library. They’ll draw on everything: Rock, rap, country and whatever is hot, marrying it to the pre-game show, intermissions, commercial breaks, peaking with goals, big saves, fights, penalty kills, alumni appearances and anything else of note between whistles.
Cross crossed paths with the Leafs by accident, meeting MLSE chief commercial officer Dave Hopkinson at a wine tasting last year.
“The Leafs game was on TV in another room and about five glasses in, we clued in about what the other person did for a living,” Cross laughed. “Six glasses in and it was, ‘Hey, we should do something together!’ He was very into it.”
Cross envisions a night in which the crowd might hear Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder sing Hard Sun during intermission and, when the puck drops, personalized songs for each player (providing they score a lot more than in January), moving the needle from Bruno Mars to AC/DC to the Tragically Hip to Iron Maiden.
Tinkering with the Leafs’ game-night show had already begun in the autumn. Reid Black, senior director of marketing for the Leafs and Marlies, said new club president Brenda Shanahan was pushing for change and the Leafs joined other NHL clubs with an impressive pre-game projection show. It makes the ice a 200-by-80-foot video screen.
“It made a dramatic difference, focused on current players and fans,” said Black. “We’re offering much more variety to our fans, such as letting 200 in for free to games (a promotion with Ford) and music is definitely in there.”
About 30% to 40% of Cross’ and Charles’ new presentation began a soft launch with the Jan. 29 home game against Arizona, increasing with Tuesday’s match against the Rangers and through the final weeks of the regular season.
“Phase 1 is to get music and library right,” said Charles. “Phase 2 is to get the fans more involved.”
A website will soon be created to get a music set list for every game and to encourage fan participation. Back in the fall, the change in music included the introduction of Teenage Head’s Let’s Shake when the Leafs scored. Toronto promptly took the NHL lead in home goals and held it until late December, when road defeats led to an overall offensive drought.
That led to some of the worst player-fan interaction since the 1980s.
“We believe we have the best fans in sports,” said Steve Edgar, manager of game presentation for the Leafs. “They’re loud when the game is good.”
SOUND BITES
Some highlights of the Maple Leafs’ new game-night music plan, to be rolled out between this year and 2015-16:
*Fans will be asked to pick their favourite songs and music mixes for Leafs games. They’ll be offered a chance to download favourite music by Leafs players on a team music blog.
*New state-of-the-art production equipment and the latest music software, to help deliver and enhance the music production.
* The programming will be heard throughout the Air Canada Centre before, between periods and after the game.
* Fan music research will be conducted at every game to make sure all genres are considered.
* Leafs fan music spotlight will feature the best mix of three hot songs between periods.
* Creation of a Leafs Fan Top 50 songs special download, exclusively for the Leafs and MLSE.
HOLMSTROM STICKING AROUND
“We now present Jimmy Holmstrom at the organ” has become one of ACC announcer Andy Frost’s signature lines during pre-game warmups at the ACC.
And Holmstrom will still be there in future, even though the Leafs are investing a lot of money in a new in-house musical direction. Holmstrom, who works out of a press-box booth near the west end near the goal line, has been at the keyboard for years, playing canned music and pressing the air-compressed Leafs goal horn. He goes back three decades to when GM Gord Stellick invited him to work at Maple Leaf Gardens. As a kid, the present-day school teacher watched the ’67 Stanley Cup parade.
“Jimmy is an institution here,” said Steve Edgar, manager of game presentation for the Leafs. “I think this new system will help bring him even more recognition. He has been a huge part of this building and the team, and will continue to be.”
GREATEST HITS
You might still not grasp their Corsi and Fenwick.
But almost 20,000 fans are about to find out if Leafs players like the Clash, Coldplay, Foo Fighters or John Fogerty.
Player favourites will be part of a new music package to be introduced in coming weeks and months at the ACC. Fans will be able to agree or disagree with their choices for in-house tunes.
“They have offered us feedback about our music in the past,” said Steve Edgar, manager of game presentation for the Leafs. “Usually, they want it turned up. They’re on the ground floor, so they know (what they like).”
When Dion Phaneuf was made captain in 2010, the famous story was that general manager Brian Burke liked how he took control of minor matters such as the volume of the dressing room iPod dock.
Edgar says Phaneuf, the alternate captains and other senior Leafs often mention music they like and that the fans would appreciate hearing in warmups or during a game.
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Yep, got a cupboard full of chunky chicken vegetable.
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To tell the truth I haven't been out in 3 weeks.
Been sick for the last two. May make it out this weekend but not sure.
I want to head to the cabin property and pack trail as well as cut a few more trees down.
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Well -32C where I'm going and not looking forward to Lloyd'oclock !
-32 is called Thursday where I live!!!!!
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I see there is an extreme cold weather warning for parts of Ontario.
It's going all the way down near -30!!!
JEEBAS!!!! YER ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Up here we call -30, Tuesday!!!!
On a happier note, it's supposed to warm all the way up to -16 here on Saturday, -26 wind chill and 5-10 cm snow.
Ice hut/trailer?
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Here's a place where you can get a few ideas.
http://www.fishhousesupply.com/