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For strictly winter fishing I would get boot foot neoprenes.

They keep your feet warmer than the separate wading boots and are easier to put on and take off.

Like these.

But with either lug soles/studs or stabilicers for traction.

Boot Foot Neo Waders

I came very close to achieving that 3 years ago, had several networks interested and my partner and I had already filmed one episode.

Such are the vagaries of life though, the project was scuttled just as it was taking off.

 

There's been some excellent points made regarding why not to be a river guide.

These are some of the very reasons that have caused me to hedge on doing it.

I do belive that a balance could be struck and it could be done properly though.

First and foremost would be "where?".

I have a few ideas...

You could guide on the Niagara Mikey!!!

I know you would like that.

I have spent most of the last 25 years guiding and after a while it does tend to lose it's zest.

I can count on one hand the number of guests I wanted to drown though. That's not too bad for 25 years.

Heck when I was living in Southern Ontario there was more than that on any day just driving to work!!!!

Even though I have done a lot of guiding I would never guide rivers for steelies, way too much competition for spots.

It does make me really happy when I put a client on his/her fish of a lifetime though.

I get as much enjoyment seeing the client catch a bigun as if I had caught it myself.

I'm not concerned about begging forgiveness, it's regenerating cojones that worries me.

 

JF

PANSY!!!!!

No Terry not really my wife is way hotter than her!

You're Married?? ?? ??

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To a Woman?? ?? ??

Sweet!!!

See ya in three weeks buddy.

Have heard the name but never seen the show.

I don't even know if it's available on Bell Sat or not.

I haven't watched WFN because in the past when they had their Free Vu's every time I turned it on there was nothing but Bass Shows!!! I hate shows on bass, there isn't a bass within a 1000 freakin' miles of me!!!!!! No muskies either!!

There are very few really good fishing shows on TV these days.

Bring back the Red Fisher Show!!!!! He could tell a good tale and while he mentioned his sponsers it was mostly about the fish and the trip. Ahhhhhh, those were the good old days!!!!

Fishing shows are paid for by the sponsers.

Without the sponsers there would be no fishing shows on TV as the shows have to pay for air time.

Think of it this way, for a show to be made and go on the air the shows producers need to get sponsership money to pay for 1/ Travel 2/Production Costs 3/Air Time. There's probably a ton more that I forgot about but these are the main costs.

ALL Fishing Shows are Infomercials because they are 100% paid for by the show sponsers.

Granted some are less infomercially than others.

I use call display to it's full advantage.

If I see no name, an 800 # or a number I don't know I don't answer.

If it's someone I know and they want to talk to me they will leave a message.

Do those Stabilisers work on regular Boots without the felt bottoms,...I find mine are pretty slippy too

Yep!!!

Great for ice fishing too!!!!

I've got both kinds and the lug soles stay in the back of the car for most of the season. I spend a lot of time wading rocky slimey creeks and felt is the only way to go. Granted I have to pick my spots to exit the water and they're awful for climbing grassy or muddy banks but for the 3 or 4 hours I'm rockin' & rollin' in the creek the felt rox.

 

They'd have been worse than useless where we were today though. Today the lugs ruled.

 

JF

I have two pairs of studded felts that have been sitting idle since I bought a pair of Simms studded Aqua Stealth boots.

IMHO they are the only boots you will ever need!!!

I fish some of the slimeyest rivers you have ever seen in Alaska and they grip like glue + they get decent traction in mud and snow too!!!!

Awesome Trip!!!!!!

That steelie is a tank and the bonus sturgeon is sweet!!!!

I hope to be fishing there next month.

A pair of Stabilicers will help in the mud and also stop you from gaining height when there is snow on the ground.

Stabilicers

TThanks Drifter!!! I was hoping you post a hard water report for us.... I know you have good ice up there right now

Plenty of ice up here, I have just been too busy to go.

I would go tomorrow, but it is going to be too nice so I have work to do on my sled trailer.

Better to do it now when the temps are -3 to -5 than when it's -20!!!

Lakers are number one for me.

Then it's Whities, walleyes and Pike.

I agree comletely. Thats the reason I bought the sled, to expand my opportunities as well as make going to camp in the winter easier. Never had a power auger, though with that much ice you'd be crazy not to have one. Late season we drill 3 feet or so, most of our deepest ice is really punky and not solid, due to the big dumps of snow, so its not that bad. Plus I have a 6" auger which chews pretty quick.

 

Dave, let me know if you want some GPS points of some spots in the east arm. Ive got a bunch of reefs marked and also quite a few ice out bays, there are definitely preferred ones that the trout are in at ice out, so I assume they'd be nearby during the later winter.

 

....to icefish the east arm of slave i'd walk!! Then probably wait for the sea lift to come out for a ride back in August!

Last spring I drilled through 64" of hard black ice!!!

I have an 18" extension for my power auger and still needed to drill down a few inches on either side of the hole to clear the handles and punch through the last 2 or 3 inches of ice.

I'd love a bunch of GPS coordinates!!!!!! Thanks!!!!

You have a PM.

[quote name='troutologist' date='Nov 27 2009, 12:12 PM' post='406115'

 

I don't have to go 100mph to fish i just go where the big sleds can't

 

 

hahaha!! i go places where the tundras, elans, bravos, etc. can't with my sled!

they are light machines but completely gutless! even the 550f gutless!

you go into a ditch or hole your done. you get yourself into slush your done.

they dont have the track(the newer tundras have the 156" track but it dont have the power to turn it)or the power.

i don't care what anyone says, those sleds cant go where a good mountain sled can go.

they are made for the steep and deep.

and snow shoes!?! thats a little to much like work haha!

and ya drifter those yamis do go like a raped ape on steriods.

i cant say ive ever been stuck on a lake with my sled, bush ya but not to often.

slush is no problem for my 2" paddle track, stop in it and gun it doing a wheelie out

i suggest go mountain sled!!

The one time I got stuck was trying to climb over the snow berm at the edge of one of our ice roads.

The snow under the crust was all corn snow and it just blew out. I would have hit it with some speed but I was pulling a boggan and didn't want my ice fishing stuff spread all over the place.

Troutologist

There is nothing wrong with snowshoeing into lakes, I have friends up here that do it all the time. They're a bunch of Tundra Huggers though!!! Anyone that uses a hand auger to go through 4 feet of ice after snowshoeing 10 km into a lake is a few fries short of a Happy Meal in my book.

Myself, I would rather spend the time they spend walking into a lake I can sled into, FISHING!!!

One of my favorite fishing lakes is a 40km round trip, you can walk in if you like.

I have a week long fishing trip planned for the East Arm of Great Slave Lake at the end of March. It's a 400km round trip.

Feel like walking 400kms with camping and fishing supplies for a week? I thought not.

Besides I'm too old and fat to be doing all that walking, snowshoeing, hand augering crap any way.

2003 polaris rmk 700 the tundras are not match for this beast in the bush and cant even touch it across the lakes, if i so happen to get stuck im screwed haha! pulling behind a totem sleigh! i also have a smaller orange one with a lid, best sleighs out there being true fiberglass and fiberglass lid and metal runners to bad they are like 3x the price of a normal sleigh. sorry no pics of the actual gear!

You're screwed if you get stuck?? I have yet to get mine stuck other than once on the lake.

If I get stuck in the bush I'm in serious trouble as my sled has a 1000cc 4 stroke and weighs 700 pounds dry!!!!

It goes like a Raped Ape though!!!! Also it has the power to get me out of slushy situations in a nano second.

It's pretty comfortable too. I have a winch for it but haven't installed it yet. I'm going to build a new rear bumper for my sled with the winch built in.

They are the number 1 choice for winter wear here in Yellowknife, so that should tell you how warm they are.

Personally my winter coat is a Choko Designs snowmobile parka. I wear that and Choko bibs when ice fishing, sledding etc. and it's plenty warm. If it's -10 or warmer I ride with the zipper half open.

HA CHA CHA CHA!!!!!

IT's JIMMIE DURANTE!!!!

I also have a popup shelter but am just waiting for a flipover to be delivered.

For transport I have my Honda Pilot and Yamaha RS Venture GT Sled.

Auger is a Strikemaster Cobra 10.25" 3 HP with an 18" extension.

No pics of my hut, but it is like Ciceri's.

Its not that its been one day.. Its the fact that its stayed in Kitchener for a whole day.. and scanned twice there..

Scanned when it came in to the depot and when it left.

When you checked it was somewhere between Kitchener and your local CPOST Depot.

Either that or it fell on the floor, got kicked under a rack and carried off by rats.

I have had stuff take a week with no updtes since it was dropped off at the local post office.

I will tell you that I did a ton of IT work for CPOST early in the decade and their Network was terrible!!!! It was so bad that if I was trying to do something when a shift change came along I just packed up and went home.

WOW, been a whole day and change and it's still not there?? ?? ??

Un freakin' believable!!!!!

My guess is you will have it today.

Next will come the 'what flow rates are fishable for the (insert river name here)' questions

Hey Bill

What flow rate is best for the Don?? ??

I don't want to waste any time so want to know what flow rate is the perfect rainbow green?? ??

Been using that site and this one and for many years.

The OP doesn't say that his tip is broken, only that he want's a replacement tip.

Maybe his rod is fine and he just wants a spare in case.

Possibly the OP can clear this up.

If it is infact broken, just send in the rod for warranty replacement as Solopaddler says.