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I actually had it's head out of the hole and my hand under the gill cover when it decided, it ain't gonna happen son.

While wearing night vision goggles!!!

Easy enough to swap out the blower motor and not too expensive either. You can probably even pick up a used one that will do the duty until you run your oil tank dry.

Nope you posted at 3:19

Unless you buy one of the multi stage ones like the Marcum DCS 100 or Vexilar V-410.

What are you talking aboot? It's only 3:25 here. But it is still light out!!

And tell them your name is Roy.

Nice!!! I'm hungry just looking at 'em. I had the same delemma yesterday, I stayed on the couch!!! But in my defence the windchills at the time were -47!!! Got out Saturday before the front passed and had my heart broken by the biggest pike I have ever laid eyes on.

When he had to walk 16 miles to school through 3 feet of snow, UPHILL!!! BOTH WAYS!!!!!

Bill you can always pick up one of the CTEK 3300 chargers. I think these little guys would be perfect for charging smaller batteries. They are a little spendy but seem to come on sale every year. If you can find it the Marcum DCS 100 is a good charger, but is now discontinued.

That's dedication!!! I'm lucky as I have only to walk out the front door and hop on the sled. Plus I get to start in eary November and finish in May!!

Glad I don't have to shovel that much snow here!!! They're up to 27 feet as of Saturday!!! Valdez Snow Video

The metal around the welded area is weakend by welding and if the welder uses too much heat it is more prone to cracking. Replacing a popped rivet is less of a problem than having the boat welded back up.

I have 2 milk crates that I carry my tackle boxes, heater, insulated cups, LX-5 and other essentials in. I put them under the seats in my Trekker II (the back leg on the seat assembly folds and the seat sits on the top of the crates). My rods go in a Cabelas rod bag and my auger in a Cabelas Auger Hauler. The last things to go in the sled are a small 6 pack cooler for my bait and a water bottle for coupling my transducer to the ice for depth checks before drilling and a collapsable shovel for clearing snow. Everything packs nice and tightly so it doesn't bounce around while hauling it to the fishing grounds.

Yep, same kind of dry liquid nitrogen cold here as in Alberta.

This weekend we are going to see our first stretch of Arctic winter weater. Hopefully some of it will blow your way so y'all can hit the ice. By next weekend they are calling for highs in the -40's. I'm going into hibernation on Sunday and will emerge when the temps are more favourable and the chance of damaging equipment lessens. Until then I have a couple of rods that need building.

Here's my favorite road sign.

I stick a shiner or chunk of cisco on the treble hook to increase my laker hooking percentage. You will catch fewer whitefish though.

Sucking on Extra Strength Fisherman's Friends lozenges helped me through the first month. I chewed a bunch of those things. Try it. Trust me.

Simple, if one of the other innocents was armed and proficient with his/her firearm they might have been able to take down the gang banger before an innocent person was hit. Sure, it's no where near a sure thing that things would have turned out differently but there is a far better chance with one or more of the good guys armed than without. The most important thing is being well practiced and proficient with your firearm. If you aren't you're no better than the bullet spraying banger.

Tell that to the family of the innocent young girl that was killed in the gang shooting at the Eaton Centre a couple of years back Bill.

They have had 15' of snow and 44" of rain fall in Cordova since November 1st. In Valdez they have had almost 26 1/2' of snow fall in the same time period. Some Valdez Pics And Some Cordova Pics