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Whaaaaaa...................how long?????????? I could probably go without pizza for that long, but not ice fishing WTG Phil. Did you keep any for the pan?

I was wondering what that glow was on the horizon to the southeast of me. Shoulda known, We can burn in the rural areas, not right in town. And as said above, we have to get a permit from the MNR(its free) stating what day and time. And, only in spring and fall.

Yes, I do know that Glen, I am not TOTALLY out of touch with the world, :D :D

missouriparrothead.........................Whats the reason for that moniker btw??? Missouri...........I can understand Parrothead.....................hmmmmmmmm, lol. August in Quetico should be no problem whatsoever. If you are after walleye and bass. If you are on one of the lakes that have lakers in it, then they will be down deep, use tube jigs, white ones, 4 inch ones, and jig them off of cliffs and reefs in the 40 ft. depth or more. Lots of pike in the lakes also, dunno about any size of them, but they will be in probably every lake in Quetico. Never been there myself, and I live only 2 hrs. away from it. The bugs shouldn't be too bad at that time also. Of couse, there are always skeeters around in the morning and evening, but they usually disappear in mid to late morning, and don't come out again until near sunset. One thing to watch out for, TICKS. We do have them near us, and Quetico is an area they can be found in. So.......best to do a tick check before you go to bed at night. And if you do find one on you, grab its body with a pair of tweezers, and give a slow, steady, pull. Might take a minute, but you don't want any part of them things left in your body to aggravate you later. Yeah, I know, its creepy dealing with them, I haven't had the personal pleasure myself, but a few friends have. And even though I have not been to Quetico, I have fished many tmes in the areas just east of the park, and check myself when I get home.

Wondering how my Jiffy would work up there with 5 auger extensions, lol.

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what's nascar????? :lol: :lol:

Been there, done that. Not to make light of this scenario. My dad made me practice getting the water out of a flipped canoe by myself, and getting back into it, alone. And when I was a junior ranger way back in '77, the camp leaders made us do it again before we went on a 4 day trip, along with the canoe over canoe method(first time I had heard of it)so we all knew how to do it by ourselves, or with help from others. Those times were in summer though, but I got to experience it first hand while duck hunting on the last day of september, or first day of october, cannot remember which. We flipped, deep in the rice, not another boat in sight. Fortunately, we held onto our guns, and our packs managed to float. We were wearing pfd's, with camo clothing over them, and chest waders. Flipped the canoe back over, getting as much water as possible out of it, then my bud stabilized the front end by holding his arms over the front and swinging his feet up over the gunwales to stabilize the canoe, and I climbed in directly over the stern (not the side) of the canoe, and while laying flat down on the back end, put my legs up as high as possible to drain as much water out of my chest waders as possible. Then, I got flat into the bottom of the canoe, and my bud crawled in over the bow of the canoe, taking the time to drain his waders also. It was simple and easy to do, even while cold, took us probably less than one minute. Then we retrieved our paddles, which couldn't go far in the rice, yanked our 3 dozen or so decoys into the canoe, and paddled like heck, Hawaii 5-0 style back to the landing which was 3 km. away. Chucked everything we had into the back of the pickup as fast as possible, tied the canoe on top,(had started up the truck soon as we hit shore to get the heat on), then peeled off our wet clothes down to our long underwear and socks, and drove home(an hour and a bit away). We sure were getting strange looks from people at the stop lights when they looked up at 2 teenagers driving through town with no shirts on in about 20F temps. They must have thought we were from Alabama, The very next weekend, 2 other buds had the same thing happen, on the same lake, a few hundred yards from where we flipped, but they tried to get back in over the side, and couldn't do it, but had their paddles, and waved them in the air, and a couple of American fishermen saw the paddles from over a mile away and came to their rescue. They did not know about the technique of crawling back in over the stern or bow. Those water wings would be nice in summer for kids, or inexperienced canoeists, as a just in case safety item, but in my situation above, its much better to get as much water out of the canoe as possible with the flipping technique, so you can achieve more forward speed to get on shore a.s.a.p. p.s. two weeks later, we went back to that spot, and retrieved a few items that sank, binoculars, decoy bags, shotgun shell bags, etc.

Hey Joey, maybe you can get the lure he stole off of you and Paul back

The vending machine and cash register companies will re-tool their coin slots really fast, and just bump up their prices a bit to offset the cost of the reconfiguration. But the coins do last a lot longer than the bills, and that saves the whole economy a lot of money. There will be counterfeits of course, but thats no different than the bills. Carrying coins in your pocket is not that big of a deal, at least not to me.

LOL, Gerritt, can we see some video of that???? I would think that tan you would get would actually be frostbite. It would certainly be a red color at some point, you know, decaying flesh!!!!! AND, I bloody wish we had 70cm or more of snow fall up here, not all in one instance, but cumulative, even more, we need it, we so desperately need it. How come you guys got all the good weather this year??? lol.

I am up in the Great White North, Thunder Bay, Ontario, and our snow load is minimal right now. Our precipitation for snow is almost non-existant. We have at most in some areas maybe 1 ft. of snow. Our water levels are extremely low, our rural people outside of the city water supply have to haul water, to cook and clean dishes with, and drink from. They are relying on friends, family, or workplaces for showering, washing clothes, etc. Not all of them of course, but lots of them for sure. I work at our local university, and we have a small man made lake that flows through it. Our maintenance guys have been clearing it for skating since early december, then they started drilling holes in it, and flooding it with water for a better skating surface. Nice of them to do that, but the effect was that it drew the existing water in the lake down, and the ice surface has now sunk at least 2 ft., because they drew the water out from under the ice. I suspect now, that the ice is now sitting on the bottom of the lake, since it was already low to begin with, and it is only 4 ft. deep at best in high water conditions. Glen, its easy for a fire to stay alive in even our cold conditions. We had fires late into the fall, and with the low water table, the fires got down deep into the forest layer. The forest layer is not just a few inches of dried leaves and pine needles, it can be 6 ft. or more until you reach soil, clay, or bedrock. So, the fire smolders, and the fire crews just cannot get down that deep with shovels, water cannons, etc., and the fires continue to smolder, all winter season. Then, come spring, and without any significant snowfall, or possibly rains, they just flare up, and start the cycle of mayhem all over again. We have had a significant(according to some). "bear problem" according to residents and others for a few years since the spring bear hunt was cancelled, but with this years little snow load, I think our bear "problem" is going to be significantly lower this year(don't quote me on that though, lol). Up here, the bears do not have many caves, or dig dens. For the most part, they just pile up a bunch of brush and such, and den there, and with the snow load, they are good to go for the winter. But this year, with little snow load, their population up here may be in big trouble for their survival of the winter season. I didn't even bother to go fishing for fall salmon, or rainbows last year, because of the low water levels. I just decided to leave them alone.

I like summer fishing CC, so your job is safe from me, lol.

I am just jealous, :lol: :lol:

Talked to my CO bud this evening, the MNR up here actually had to respond to a fire on a local lake called Flower Lake, a shore lunch fire that wasn't properly put out. Because of our extremely dry conditions, the fire burnt up a hillside on a south facing slope, which had no snow on it, because it all melted a few weeks ago before our deep freeze and we have had no precipitation since. AND ITS HAPPENING IN FEBRUARY!!!! Man, if we don't get some snow or rain in the spring, its gonna be a bad year for fires up here :( :(

Someone asked this question in a not so long ago post, but it bears repeating: DO YOU FLIPPIN' WORK?? Just kidding Scott, go get 'em, you couldn't be going fishing with a greater guy.

Nice Mike, thanks for posting. Glad you got out.

I wish we had that snow load up here.

"SNOW DAY????", what the heck is that? There has only been two times in my 30 yrs. at work where it was shut down, last time in '96, and that was because of the almost 3 ft of snow that fell overnight with fairly high winds causing huge drifts on the roads. The city crews just could not clear it. My side street did not get done for almost 3 days. But, I have a 1/2 ton 4x4, and my snowmobile was on the back, so I made the best of the day, and ran up and down our two streets packing it down to help people in my area get out. My elderly neighbor across from us had an 8 ft. high drift between his car and the street(should have taken a picture of it as there was virtually no snow around his car, lol). Fortunately, one of our neighbors has a trucking and gravel business, quick phone call, and they showed up with a massive front end loader. Scooped all the snow out of the driveway, and put it in my front yard(told them to, there was no where else to put it). My co-worker had walked into work that day at 7 am, did all the equipment deliveries for the 8:30 classes, and then listening to the radio heard that the university was officially closed at 8:10 am. Picked up all the equipment, and walked home, a one hour walk each direction in clear conditions. DARN, I wish we could have a shutdown for snow, we need snow desperately up here. Our forecast for the summer is grim with regards to the fire season. Some of the fires from last fall are still smoldering 6 ft. underground, the fire crews just cannot dig down that deep. Usually they are only about 2 ft. underground at most, but with our drought conditions late summer and all fall, the water table has gone down drastically.

Hey man, where you been????? Cool first report on the new board.

Must be a different alloy in that bolt dsn. Are you using the same type of bolt to solder to?? Is it stainless?? Or maybe the coating on this one is just a little thicker than the others. Might just be it takes a little bit more heat to cause it to be able to be "tinned" with lead, or a bit more aggressive sanding of the surface.

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to hear about this.

Thought you would have posted this Smokey(Mike), I know you have already seen it. Story is here. http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/photo_ess/pe...kills_moose.htm

WOW, this internet "story" resurfaced, Saw this over a year ago, or more, and Clive still has all his digits intact.

Well done pikie, thanks for the report. Those smelt are Laker bait, btw.