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Sorry...I wasn't about to zoom in for a closer loook . If you're feeling Ritzy...check this company out... sitkagear.com

This is what happens when you let the Heyden Bible kids come out fishing...LOL...Chris is a strange man...

Misty Mountain and Rocky hunting gear make mid-weight micro fleece base layers, they retail for 19.99$ a piece....very cheap. Marks also has Dakota micro fleece at a similar price. Keep your eyes on Cabelas for Polartec 1/4 zip polar-weight fleece sweaters that go onsale alot...they are only actually 40$ regularly. Stay away from their bottoms...they fit like crap. Ontop of it you can pick up a uninsulated waterproof (also usually very windproof) jacket/shell to keep the wind out. Cabela's has their GORE-TEX MT-050 lineon sale right now...very nice gear for the price. Also good outer layers would be any winter pants/jacket by Columbia with their Omni-tech water reppelant layer. I paid 180$ for my Columbia Ice-Ice Jacket, and if I wasnt afraid to get it dirty because its my fancy, goin out pickin up the ladies jacket...It would be my GO-TO outer layer....its very light, blocks the wind and has very large pit zips to dump heat when you're puttin on a sweat.

I like ice fishing more than soft water. I like setting my lines up then going and getting a fire started to perk some coffee or fry some dirty old chicken sandwhiches as opposed to being stuck in a boat all day.

Yes...with a miracle material called...WOOL. Or...do what most active outdoorsmen do and use a windproof shell over your layers. Agreed...you rock at slaying the back country Sal .

Layering with something other than a wicking material is pointless. It would be like buying an UL rod and spooling it with 20lb test. Layering means carrying lightweight layers to put overtop of eachother depending on how active you are at the time. To layer with bulky non-wicking cotton it pointless as it has way too many downfalls when compared to wool or fleece....

If you're running fleece it wont stay wet...it just keeps wicking the moisture to the outside were it evaporates in the air. Wearing polyester underarmour and a cotton layer over that is redundant. The underarmour is pulling the sweat off your body and pushing it out were the cotton is just trapping it and letting you get cold. "You get wet, you get cold, you die." Hence cotton is referred to as "dead mans cloth". EDIT- Also cotton clothes are MUCH heavier and bulkier than cotton stuff.

If you changed your long sleeve t to a polyester heavy weight zip-t and your cotton sweater to a fleece one, you'd only have to wear those and never worry about changing into "dry" clothes...or carrying them for that matter.

What are you using for a layering system? Tell me the Sal man doesnt wear dead mans cloth in the bush?!?!

That speck second from the top is absolutely gorgeous!!!

They SHOULD be...but I am a terrible fisherman...so they don't.

Sorry TDunn, we were there on Sunday, not Saturday . DING DING DING!!! I agree with buying a GOOD knife once. I bought this one when I first started Moose hunting 6 years ago...didn't know any better. As for my buddy breaking it...I don't care, because if he wouldn't have broke it, I would have because I was batoning wood with it all that day ...just crapty luck that he was using it when it broke. I blame nothing on him. Fixed it for you

It's ok Glynn, you are a backwoods hick like GCD. Hard for you folks to even navigate through the internet, let alone find new bands coming out . KIDDING

The Billys are great! They won't go too far in the music world, but they're great .

I think we were on the same lake as well Dunn . How'd you like the cliffhanger style side hill going into the lake?

You gentleman have never heard of the term "batoning" I assume... I shouldn't have been using a cheap buck knife to do so though. So I'm not really mad about it.

Bob and Tom all the way to the Lake that will remain nameless . Nothing wrong with Hank Jr, Metallica, wolfmother, waylon jennings etc though. I need to order some of this guys stuff too, Sal, if you like acoustic artists you'll love this guy...

ME and my buddy went up into the park again today. Was slow all morning and into the afternoon with NO hits what-so-ever until 1:50 when we were eating lunch. My buddy pulled up a 15" Laker on a Mr.Champ. Changed spots, found a drop off and dropped a white tube jig tipped with a minnow. The tube jig didn't make it to the bottom when a nice little 18"er swallowed it. I took the jig/minnow out and dropped it back down and was rewarded with another 19"er that didn't let it hit bottom again . Gotta love that kinda action . AND My Imp of a partner who broke my last Gerber Saw, broke my 6" Buck Knife splitting some cedar to burn . I'm gonna start making him give me a cash deposit before using my blades .

13thou on a Cat....damn...that suprises even me . I bet when you get on a lake that 4 banger just keeps climbing up the speedo with no end in site though . My buddies dad has an RX1...its like trying to drive a bath tub when you're in the twisties. But when you get on a lake...theres no top end to those 4 strokes, they just keep going faster, and faster, and faster.....

You're right Dara, but regardless, I did the same things to my F6 at 6500 miles (changed idler wheel bearings and torsion bar bushing. When I sold it like I said, it had 135 psi on each side, tight motor mounts, new idler bearings, tight steering, clean exhaust vavles, tight chain etc etc. The best sled out there is the one thats running...when they break they're all crap regardless of brand .

Gavin, Gavin, Gavin....when are you gonna learn...everyone else is wrong but me...

Yupper .

You can't compare 2 strokes to 4 there Dara . Like saying "What??? Your chev 350 blew up after 350K?? My Cummins has 600K on it and it's still going strong..." Bed time...see ya's

Life is to short for the following: To hunt with an ugly rifle. To fish with a 2 piece rod. To drive a 2 up sled. To drink girly drinks.

Ya those Cat's are garbage...my F6 had 6500 miles on it when i sold it...and it still had 135 PSI in both cylinders .