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Sure, I just sent them my cheque for my quad and snowmobile, :lol: :lol: :lol:

It was in June of 2003, was surfing Mahumba's board up here in Thunder Bay. I saw a post by DanC there with a link to this site. Only took me a couple of days to sign up. As it turned out, I joined right in the middle of one of the big dust-ups and then had reservations about this place. It all got sorted out in the end. I used to be on walleyecentral and fishhawknet, but haven't been back to either of those places for 4 or 5 yrs.(fishhawk is where I first saw a few Moosebunk reports, sure glad Drew signed up here 3-4 years ago). I do not post nearly as much as I used to, but visit here every morning before work, and after work(no time during work to do so). I have met about 5 people from this place, TJQ, his better half Monique, and their 2 kids Avery and Jaden. Also Mahumba(Roger) and DanC, and will probably be talking to them next Thursday as there is a mini meet and greet with one of our local board members who is from Ohio who comes up this way maybe twice a year.

The first pic looks like a rainbow smolt, but don't quote me on that, I usually don;t catch them that small :lol: The 2nd pic looks like a nice sized chinook, still silver sided at this time of year, great catch, probably in the range of 15 lbs. maybe a bit more. Tough to tell from a picture. You look like you had quite a battle there, t-shirt and pants all dirtied up, ..................but the smile in the picture says it all, regardless. :thumbsup_anim:

I don't know about the "steal", but these are the ones I bought. And I found the receipt, $33.97 for them. About 8 inches long, good grips on them. Are they the ones people uses for Musky?????

I was running all around Thunder Bay this past summer to all kinds of shops for work related reasons. One place I went into, I saw Knipex cutters(made mental note). Got the opportunity to go to LOTW's this summer, so off I went back to this shop. About $37.00 for the Knipex cutters. I didn't need them in the end, although I did catch my first Musky. Apparently the electrician guys love these pliers. They rarely come back to buy new ones because they hold an edge so well.

Good start to the report. Where are the hay-bale pictures, addendum(Bill and a few of us were in chat 2 nights ago, thus the hay-bale question).

Don't know how fast you need the parts Jeff, but possibly: http://www.lindylittlejoe.com/ http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/ I was gonna suggest luremaking.com until I saw that RealPro's owns them,

Very sad news indeed, Gary was one of the most helpful and insightful people on this board. He will be missed for sure. My condolences to his family and friends.

But.................do you get those "special" e-mails from GCD????

You obviously have an e-mail account with your local service provider, use that username and password, and, or e-mail program they supplied you with. You should be able to use it on any computer anywhere. When I was down in Orillia for 2 weeks, I just logged into my local ISP's to read my personal e-mail, gmail for another account, and 2 from my workplace. Just need to know the webpages.

What everybody else said. OK, I will say it also, great report and pictures.

Yeah, read that yesterday, saw the pictures. Glad he is OK. Too bad about his boat though.

Completely forgot about those guys showing up. I was supposed to go fishing with buds on Saturday, but suffered a hand injury, I could have drove up there for a few hours though, oh well.

I cannot find it either.

Just tried it Glen, still the same as before.

In there now for a bit.

AND THAT PICTURE SAYS IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! A TOTALLY complete weekend spent with good friends. It just does not get any better than that.

I was probably about 20 km's northwest of Whitefish Bay at least.

Yeah, about the pike comment, we really do disdain them up here don`t we. Lots of other people make pike reports, and I enjoy reading their posts and pictures for sure. I hate them, they steal my walleye harnesses and presentations all the time. Only tangled with 2 of them this trip, one I landed, a small one, the other, about 7 lbs., one last thrash and beads, clevises, and blades were flying everywhere. Uhggg........gotta re-tie now

I suspect it is a vacuum issue. Driving in reverse(for a few metres or yds,, not hundreds) after having the transfer case locked in 4x4 mode to have it disengage is not a new thing. Having your truck lock up in 4x4 mode when its not engaged by you is not normal. I don`t know about that specific model of your vehicle, but I suspect it is either an electrical issue, or as stated, a vacuum issue. My old 90 GMC half ton is electrically engaged. Only failed on me once. My buds Toyota Tundra got wallowed down in a mud hole, and had the vacuum line sheared off. We were there for 6 hrs. trying to get out, not realizing that the truck wasn`t, and couldn`t be in 4x4 mode, despite what the dash indicator said. We knew fairly soon that the 4x4 was not working, but really did not believe it at the time. Press the button, it should work, right...................... :lol:

Great to see a report from you Ric, you should come around here a bit more often. 5 rod holders on a Yak, sheesh, on my buds 20 ft. Crestliner we only have 6 I`ll probably never get to fish for Stripers, so thanks for the report and pictures.

Great report Holdfast, and yes, I can see what you meant about Johnny not being an angler, holding the rod like he does in that one pic. I think he is just concentrating on not losing it overboard, to heck with landing fish, Did Johnny really kiss that fish, or was it a fainted attempt

Thanks again everyone. If I had my lifetime to live over again, I would not get to see, fish, or explore all of this lake. It`s so flipping huge.

Ummm.........Dan..................do you ever make a boring report, I think not. Now hold it on one gall darn minute here....................DREW is going to be up(down) here, in our territory, wow, and Wayne maybe taqging along,,,,,,,,, give me a heads up please, I may not make those meet and greets, but would appreciate the opportunity.

Great news Remo, hopefully everyone else in the area is OK also.