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Work fast and quietly

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.

DID I POST IT AT THE TIME YOUR SAYING ?

Nope you posted at 3:19

 

REMEMBER.. once that green light comes on on those Aqua View, Hummingbird, Marcum etc "chargers" comes on that it doesn't shut off... it continues to BOIL your battery!!

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!!

Personally... I'd call from a payphone.. but that's just me!!

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.

Ice age???

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.

I may even drive all the way to Nipissing just for the day.

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

Thanks for the input everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

The layout in both is almost identical.

 

Why don't you like welded hulls Wayne?

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.

 

 

Yay! I'll tell her Roy said it's ok!

Well here's mine set up!

Had to open it in the basement...much better half wouldn't allow anywhere else.

 

Winter seems to be setting here as well in NW Ontario. Not too cold but highs of -10-15 for the extended forecast.

 

Drifter, I use to work in northern Alberta, and it would get insanely cold too. Sometimes with the windchill it could reach -60 no problem. But the air was much drier there, and it wouldn't feel as cold as in NW Ontario.

 

Does that hold true for Yellowknife as well??? I mean it's still bloody cold, just a different kind of cold.

 

I'm just curious

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.

Thankyou for removing us of those who catch fish on the sidehooks from the same bucket as snaggers. Now if someone could tell me how to catch more lakers on a williams ice jig i am all ears.. I get the odd one but i am in no way confident in using it to target lakers with i get most of my lakers on live bait.

I stick a shiner or chunk of cisco on the treble hook to increase my laker hooking percentage.

You will catch fewer whitefish though.

I"m on my 10th day now...cold turkey do these cravings ever go away? all l wanna do is eat non stop lol

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.

Yeup!......Looks like its been jacked!

I asked Capt Bruce but he failed to answer, tell me why if we had a concealed carry law in Ontario that this would have had any impact on if that poor girl got shot or not.

 

Do you think those gangbangers would have cared at all? Not a chance!

 

 

 

Who's a non supporter of guns? I've got half a dozen shotguns downstairs... I'm an avid hunter... Does that mean I need to agree with something like concealed carry in Ontario?

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.

Thankfully most of the people with guns in TO like to shoot each other. So for the everyday citizen like you and me, we have a better chance of being struck by lightning compared to being shot.

 

Defend your family all you want, when was the last time you had to?

 

Talk about making an issue out of nothing.

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

well they play 12-15 games a month... gotta fit em in somehow... i bet the players prefer back to back games... itll help free up some time...

 

i feel bad for pro athletes now... i know one of the senators players and he gets no free time... if they arent playing hockey... they are practicing... training... volunteering...traveling... doing fundraisers...

 

even in the summer they train every day and this guy has some fundraiser every week...

 

dont get me wrong... they get paid a ton of money... but its not a cakewalk...

They will have plenty of time fer relaxin' when they are comfortably retired at age 40.