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  3. Sioux Lookout Ice Conditions

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    Probably still 20" of ice in Sioux Lookout area. Our temps recently have been dipping down to an average of -5C overnight, and only getting up to about +5C.

    I do know Kenora got about 1 ft. of snow a couple days ago, saw pics from a guy living there.

    But still, the ice has got to be getting soft. We were out fishing 2 weekends ago about 2 hrs. west of Thunder Bay and the ice surface was getting soft, even though there was 24-30 inches of ice on the lake. We didn't go ice fishing last weekend, but I am sure we could get one last walk in trip this coming weekend if we choose to.

  11. coatwatch.glerl/modis imagery website

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    I am on my laptop now, main pc's hd is probably toast. So I do a search for it, find it, and go to the MODIS site to look at ice conditions.

     

    I get this:

     

    Forbidden

    You don't have permission to access /modis/modis.cgi/modis on this server.

     

    Apache/1.3.26 Server at coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov Port 80

     

    Can anyone else check it, and see if they can see the satellite images please?

  12. 12 volt marine starting battery, left switch on all winter

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    I hadn't used my truck for 5 months. Sat in the driveway. Got cold, very cold. Both batteries froze.

    Took 3 days with the charger on the main starting battery, but it came back to life. Now I have to put the charger on the 2nd battery, as the battery isolator is not doing anything to it so it seems. It may be toast, but have yet to check.

     

    Gotta do the same thing to my quad battery, :lol: . Forgot to remove it last fall. Took 2 hrs. for it hooked up to my running truck to get enough of a charge to turn it over.

     

    Give the charging a bit of time, it may recover, and if you can remove the covers to test the battery cell's electrolte's specific gravity, do that. It will tell you if you need a new one.

  17. Spring Lake Trout

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    Yes, at that time of year they should still be up. In my distant youth, May long was a ritual for the first swim in the lake, and it was always very, very cold.

    Hope the ice is gone by then as in the Thunder Bay area we still have 30" on the lakes, and our highs and lows right now are not that far apart. We are still dipping below freezing at night, and not much above freezing during the day.

    Probably trolling Willam's spoons in either silver, silver/blue, silver/brass, or Cleos will suffice, never had to use bait myself at that time of year.

    We used to catch them into early June right off shore not more than 25 ft. down jigging with chartreuse marabou jigs off of a steep rock shelf.

    I have also caught them in August, trolling for walleye in the wee hours of the morning in 12 ft. of water.

     

    I do not know if they school up. Never thought about it really.

  18. What's up with the Banana thing

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    I don't know about this also, heard about it on the board, but have many, many, times taken bananas with me out fishing, and the success rate has not altered.

     

    What I do know though, is when we were out trolling for salmon on Lake Superior, the gulls would follow us, and when we tossed the peel overboard they would swoop down instantly, but, would not eat it.

  19. Any maps please

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    I think its this one, SE of Melchett Lake, north of Aroland First Nation

     

    Percy_Lake.jpg.

     

    Its about 11.5 km long, and 1.5 km wide at best. I would check out the 2 rivers entering the lake at the west and south west end, looks like there can be a small falls on them, or rapids with pools, watch the prop. And the river out the east end has a falls almost twice the length of the lake downstream, ask the operators about that also. It is called Betty Falls, with another one about a kilometer further called Canyon Falls.

    At least thats what my GPS map software says.

    Cannot offer you any more, never been there, and like Wayne (Irishfield) said, ask the operators to fax you, or e-mail you a map of the lake. They may not want to send you a hydrographic one though, but may give you one once you get there.

     

    And I agree with twilight, it was easy on the eyes, time to visit the optometrist, :thumbsup_anim:

  23. Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (NF)

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    Good thing you put that topic title in, Lew would probably have throttled you, he cannot stand the sight of snakes.

     

    None up in the Thunder Bay area for sure, but when I was Junior Ranger at Killbear PP, we often ran into them. Only a couple in the park, but we had our duties outside the park in the Parry Sound area clearing power lines, blasting algae in streams with high pressure water to improve walleye spawning habitat(cannot remember the river or stream names now).

     

    One of the guys that was carrying in the gasoline powered water pump, which weighed a lot, he had his hands over his shoulders carrying it on his back. He almost stepped one one, and it rattled. Now, that pump weighed a lot, but he threw it 20 ft. one way, and he dove 10 ft. the other way, over top of the rattler :lol:

     

    Sadly, the rattler didn't survive, we were 17 yrs. old at the time back in....................................oh.................................'76 :whistling: and one of the guys used a shovel on it.

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