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Hope you're having a great day douG.

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HEY, slap a team 8 logo on one of em will ya, and take a picture,

:wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: I still have 2 weeks before I hit the rivers.

Outfitters, as I understand it, are alloted a certain amount of tags for a certain area, based on population of animals and clientele. I could be wrong, but I do not think they are allowed to purchase any amount of tags they want for any given area, unless they are somehow doing it illegally(which is not unheard of, check the OCOA site). They eventually get caught, and prosecuted. Are you hittin' the tribs' yet??? I still have a couple weekends before I do.

I believe malcolm meant to say licenses, at least for moose, dunno about turkeys, we don't have any where I am except for the usual ones that also have two legs, but cannot fly.

SOOOOO............................ are you saying I am slow on the uptake Wayne, watcha trying to tell me, YUP, the first statement says it all, as I saw the "ice firming up again" statement, and we just went through that. Didn't notice the date of the post whatsoever.

Just warmin' up for opener???? LORD 'TUNDERIN JESUS!!!!!!! You, and Bly and CCMT. and a couple of others have been teasing me for almost a bloody month now, and I probably still have another 2 weeks before I get out for them, or is that, Oh well, I can still ice fish for another weekend. WTG Scott, keep the reports coming.

Very nice Chris, glad you still had some ice down there to get out. Looks like you are warming your hands though, , or are you rubbing them together, imagining the feast ahead???

Well, I have to agree with a couple of people here, ...........why worry that much about UFC on a fishing trip? Or, for that matter, any sporting event that may be going on? If it is available to you up there, great, if not, so be it. I suspect somewhere near there, there will be a place that has a satellite system offering it, just do not know the places up there. I often went out the north shore of superior for steelhead during the NHL playoffs, no TV, no RADIO, in fact, no one even brought a radio with them, even though we could have heard CBC if we wanted to. Everyone was focused on fishing. I did bring my stereo though, and everybody in the 2 neighboring resorts would eventually find their way to our cabin for poker, drinking, tunes, and whatever else occurred. TV, even the NHL playoffs were distant thoughts. We would just catch up on it when we got back home, whether it was still going on, or over and done with, which, the latter was usually the case way back when.

DARN IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do you guys down south get all the fun?? WE NEED IT, WE WANT IT, lots of dry wells up here, along with parched forests, and no runoff expected for steelhead season. Our forecast is a 30-40 percent chance of flurries on wednesday into thursday, and a 60 percent chance of rain on saturday. I would prefer a 70-80 percent chance on both occasions.

I was reading all the responses, and may have missed someone mentioning it. The tire weight lead is good for jigs, and bottom bouncer molds, stuff you do not need to crimp with pliers. Not great for egg sinker, split shot, and such molds. It is a much harder lead alloy. You can crimp it, but it takes much effort. If you use it for split shot, it usually breaks at the joint.

OOOHHHHH YEEAAHHH, now I remember PF Flyers, and Keds of course, with the big white leather circle on the outside ankle bone. I wore those for years fishing speck creeks, wading wet in pants or shorts. Come to think of it, those were probably the original "wading shoes"

Where to buy them, I do not know. Check the hunting boards or e-bay. But you can go into the woods, and look for the "sheds" as they are called, and collect them. Now, in order to sell them, you must get a permit from the MNR indicating you are collecting them to sell, and I believe the permit is free, or extremely cheap. You cannot sell antlers, or animal parts for that matter, from animals you have shot yourself, or someone else's animal that has been shot. They must be naturally "shed" antlers, and its easy to tell the difference between sheds, and sawed off antlers. I have a nice 10 pointer rack from a wolf kill I found last fall that I could sell if I wanted to, if I got the permit. A guy I kinda know through a mutual friend up here has property with a huge deer population, I have seen the pictures of them, he has a couple of trail cameras set up on it, and he goes out and collects them from mid march to mid april when the snow load compacts and the sheds stay on top, and last year he made enough money selling them on e-bay to buy a new quad. But, he collected a LOT of them. Took him a few walks in the woods to get the antlers matched up, the deer do not shed both antlers at the same time, and that is where the trail cameras helped out.

AND in your fathers pajamas, OK, lets see? 1. Blackjack chewing gum-......dunno 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water-.....no ideer. 3. Candy cigarettes-......OH YEAH!!!!! 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles-.....FOR SURE!!! 5. Coff ee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes-....YES, last one probably left here 15 yrs. ago 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers-...YUP, still have one of those bottles. 7! Party lines-....OH YES, still exist up here. 8. Newsreels before the movie-...probably, cannot remember. 9. P.F. Flyers-...don't know what those are. 10. Butch wax-...see above 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)-...still exist up on the north shore of superior. 12. Peashooters-....YA, MY MOM TOOK MINE AWAY, 13. Howdy Doody-....YES, BARELY. 14. 45 RPM records-.........still got some, and the player for them, anyone wanna buy it????? 15. S&H Green Stamps-....NO IDEER. 16 Hi-fi's-....SEE ABOVE ABOUT THE 45'S, still gots 2 that play them, along with 2 8-tracks that still work. 17. Metal ice trays with lever-...YUP 18. Mimeograph paper-...YES, had to use them when I started working. 19 Blue flashbulb-...I think I still have some of those still around. 20. Packards-....YES 21. Roller skate keys-...heard of them, but dunno what they are, except for the song. 22. Cork popguns-....FER SURE!!!!!!!! 23. Drive-ins-....BEEN TO THEM MANY TIMES IN YEARS PAST. 24. Studebakers-.....YES 25. Wash tub wringers-....YES, remember trying to help Mom out by operating the wringer, but since I was 4 yrs. old, I couldn't do it, I also remember my mom ordering groceries over the phone, and the owner of the store delivering them. And................along with a bunch of other memories of times past everyone else has mentioned............ I AM OLDER'n DIRT!!!!!!!!!!

If the Geraldton area is anything like us, and it is only 3 hrs. away, they will probably have ice-out by the 2nd weekend in May at the latest. The forecast for this coming week is kinda cold beginning, then only just below 0C, to above OC for highs, lots of ice will disappear in those temps, evaporation, melting, etc. You should not have a problem. I was fishing a lake that was probably only 1 hr. south of Geraldton, lattitude wise last saturday, and there was only 18" of ice, 3 inch hard ice, 6 inch slush layer, then the rest solid, but the shoreline was soft. Any sustained temps around 0C will cause it to release and the wind, and possible rains by the end of the week will cause it to deplete rather fast.

Thanks everyone for your responses, it was one of my more in depth reports for sure, and am glad the pictures turned out better this time, still getting used to my camera, even after owning it for 2 yrs. Nippising, it was easy to stay awake with the early action we were experinecing. Irishfield, no, sleep is not overrated, Thanks Spiel, we were sure it was out, but our concience was better served by going back to make sure. Bojangles, yeah, sounds like I missed a good episode, I would have howled at that . Whopper, what can I say Phil, we still have some, and probably for next weekend also. Gbaygiant, fishndevil, Jooeeyy, ccmt......, Big Cliff,(no need for the bows though) thanks for the responses. Joe, thats what happens when your bud gets more hits and fish than you do, you take pictures, lots of them Urbanfisherman, I am blindly trying to compete with Moosebunk but I doubt I am in the same league. Thanks rattletrap. Much appreciated. Clamp-It, no, the wood was not green at all, dead jackpine, burns really well, with the occasional smokey times, but that goes with the territory. MTP, nah, the ice will probably be gone by the 2nd weekend in May, probably earlier. EddyK, it was worth it to miss the 3rd round of the Masters, but I caught up on it on the re-run on TSN,

Congrats Rick, well done. Are you now an "uber geek",

Great easter report of visiting the family Mike. Thanks for the pics of Nip's family business also.

Great stuff Joey and Tybo, well done.

I saw the first 20 minutes of COPS last night Dan, what happened?????? I was changing between the leafs game, COPS, and the re-run of the Masters on TSN, along with being in the chat room,

the butterfly's are just a part of the image resizer program, no other choice unfortunately. I can change the copyright date, but the butterfly is there for good. Unless Rick can tell me how to hack it, then I could use a trout, or walleye.

Same thing up here, but in remote locations where people do not have walking trails and such, just bush roads. We often find trash dumped, shingles and refrigerators are the big ones, but couches and chairs, truck bed liners even, etc. etc. The bad thing about the refrigerators, or freezers is, if the perp is not caught, the MNR has to remove them, at cost. They are mandated to have them removed, or pay someone to have it done, to recover the gas in them, so, ultimately, we all pay for it as taxpayers, and the MNR budget gets smaller, and smaller, for enforcement, or other duties.

What a night, for some reason could not get to sleep at all, had a 2 hr. nap friday aft. and got up at 6 pm. Needed a coffee, and that probably did it to me. Went to bed at 9:30, and although I rested, I may have gotten 1 hrs. sleep at best. Alarm goes off at 5 am, bud shows up at 6 am, and off we go for the 2 hr. drive. 1/2 hr. walk in wearing our mustang Ice Ryder jackets because of the previous weeks melt, not needed fortunately. With the rain last sunday, and the temps going down to -10C, and highs near 0C, the lake was locked up pretty good. Still, had my ice picks around my neck, as I had a 50 lb. pack on me, towing my pulk. There was 18 inches of ice, 3 inches on top solid, then a 6 inch slush layer, the rest solid. This lake had open holes on it the weekend before. Got in just after 9 am and drilled holes, setting up lines, and before I could even drill my 2nd hole, my bud gets a hit. Ran over to help, but he lost the fish. Pulls the line up to check the bait, still there, drops it back down. I start my 2nd hole, and the fish is back within 30 seconds, and my camera is still in my pack on shore. He gets that one. I still do not have my 2nd line set yet Finally got my 2nd line set, and started getting gear, and wood together for the shore fire. My bud continues to drill more holes, I did not, just didn't want to after not getting much sleep. Hard to see, but it was blowing pretty good, around 20K out of the NW, and light snow coming down. I was still concentrating on the shore fire stuff(I'm hungry, haven't eaten anything since 2 pm the day before), my bud breaks out the jigging rod, and yells got one. Grab the camera, and he has it out of the hole and unhooked before I get there, but a nice chunky one, released. So, I go remove the blowing snow slush from my holes, walking back to shore to do more fire preparation, and what do you know, my stick starts bouncing(whooda thunk, lol). Fish takes it good, and the fight is on. I had no chance of losing this fish unless the line broke, it was down the gullet. I now have a fresh egg supply for steelhead season, if we get any rain. All the fish we have caught in the 2 trips here have been females for some reason. Our 2 keepers so far, bookends really, but mine on the bottom is just a bit chunkier. Back I go to shore, to prepare for the fire, and to get my jigging rod set up, and my bud hooks into another one on the set line. Its a smaller one, different year class, released. Thats a Salmo Chubby Darter in its yap, chartreuse and silver in colour. I am finally jigging now, and my bud gets ANOTHER ONE on, another smaller year class one. I now miss a subtle hit, and the action slows for a bit, so we put the set lines back down, and start the sawing and chopping of wood. Almost get the fire started, and one of my buds set lines goes down. But, nothing there when we got to it. Fire is started, and getting pretty good, I am attending to it and my bud jigs again, and hooks another one. He keeps this one. Fire is going, sausages are roasting, and one of my buds set lines goes down AGAIN!!!! Coming out of the hole, another smaller year class fish. The release. All this happened between 9 am and 11 am, I missed another very hard hit that yanked my jigging rod tip right down to the ice, but another missed fish. We cooked up some sausage on the fire, me roasting some small pork smokies, along with a couple of deer legion sausage, and kippered herring and sardines in their cans, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! UUURRPP!!! The wind was supposed to abate, it did, for about 15 minutes, , then came back up, swirling the snow around. A snow "dust devil". After 11 am, we only had one other hit, on my buds set line, fish took about 10 ft. of line, but let it go. It seemed to coincide with the breaking of the cloud cover, and the sun shone brightly. We stayed for another 1.5 hrs. yakkin, and cooking, cloud came back in, jigged some more, but nothing happened. In all, we landed 6 fish, and missed about 5 or 6, we should have gotten in there sooner, the bite was definatly on early, similar to the last time we were there. Not gonna make that mistake again next year. OK, time to pack up, made sure we had everything this time, as last time here, I dropped my OFC toque on the way out, and had to go back down the hill, and across most of the lake to retrieve it, . Great, made it out with everything this time. Off we go, get about 6 kms away, and decide to check out access to a stocked splake lake, and just as we are getting near it, a thought comes to my mind. I ask my bud, did you put out the fire? NO!!!....................was going to, but got caught up in packing up, same as me, I also was planning to do it, but got distracted with the packing up procedure Darn, ummmmmm, we let it burn down, and it was barely smoldering,............................but, nah, it shouldn't go anywhere with the snow we have now................but???????? Back into the lake we go, not really far, only a 15 minute drive and 10 minute walk in unladen by packs and such, but the fire season is officially in effect right now in this area, so we had better make sure. My bud says he will walk back in this time, takes a shovel with him, in and out in 20 minutes. The fire was indeed dead, like we thought it would be, but we had to be sure. On our way back to town, we checked out access to a lake we have wanted to get into, a new cut is really close to it, sure enough, its only about 100 yds. to the lake, so we now have another lake to try this summer. With that detour, we got back at 6 pm, refilled the truck, split costs, and I finally got home around 6:30. Put all my gear away, and by 7 pm, am sipping on a beer, realizing I have been awake basically for 25 hrs. straight. So, gotta log onto OFC to see whats happening, along with checking out the Masters tournament. Logged into chat also, Nipissing came in, and we chatted for about an hour, he left, then a bleep comes over my speakers, and Ohiofisherman is there, but now, I am crashing big time, and only chatted with Paul for about 15 minutes. Had to go to bed. After 8 hrs. of GLORIOUS DEEP SLEEP, I am finally able to make a post about yesterday,

Where's Lew(retired firefighter) and Smokey(active firefighter)? They can give you all the info.