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Probably 2 feet... like it says in the first paragraph!

LOL Mike... gotta get back into shape somehow! I was the youngest certified ski instructor in Canada when I was 13 years old. (and that was a long time ago ! lol) Gettin real tired of being run down from behind and constantly using your peripheral to avoid snow boarders though. Sure takes the fun out of it for the skiiers. All three of us got hit last night. Jen the worst and my hip and ribs are bruised.

Good thing it is... Both Lew and Terry have seen the floor get washed by waves over the bow!

It was a hint ! LMAO !!

Brian... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraZEoRnkPc

Na... hopefully you picked a good one Snag, so you won't be pissin and moanin like many around here. I've never been given a honey do list in 26+ years !.. and as you saw she even goes ice fishing ! Next time around these guys will be sober when they're searching the gene pool... lol

It struggles going up hills?? My 2003 F150 only has the tiny (less than 300 cu in) 4.6 litre Triton V8 and has no issues pulling my boat anywhere. Most of the time I even leave it in OD on the flats and kick it down ahead of grades so it doesn't lug the tranny up the hill.... and I only turn the OD off once I get into some real hilly stuff. My old '98 GMC with the 5.7/350cu in engine in it has no more pulling power than this litte 4.6 V8 Thanks to the many "gears" of each 1/2/Drive in the transmission to keep the torque up to the rear wheels. Tranny shifts about 8 times to get to drive.

Snow... spent the evening skiing in freezing rain... were the hell did that come from Solo ! You do that.... lol

Just like you can't say whats his name here... lol

Heard they get them sometimes in Midland Harbour... down at the coal dock .. end of William St. Large parking lot.. walk out towards huts.

No No Rob... I caught it up in the fast water between Kokoko Lake and Kokoko Bay !!

I'll stick to my 112C for now. Can't catch what I see on it... don't need to see more stuff on the screen !!

You askin, beggin... or just making a statement???

The blue slim was only on their two.. and not on mine. Now theirs flash froze on the ice while mine was inside my minnow cooler 'till we got back. Not sure if that sets something off with the slim colour or if these are indeed "extinct" blue pickeral !

Yah... tell me that again Mike! Another 8 inches since I went to bed at 1am and my plow truck is broken. Guess I'd better get off of here and get to the shop and get back to wrenching!

THANKS! Sometimes amaze myself what you can do when you set your mind to something. Learned to split rock... learned to put it on a wall.. and learned never to do it again! If you look hard... we even keep marshmellows close by!

Thanks... Nope.. NE Arm.

Been trying to get to the lake for a couple weeks. Too darn cold a week back at -40C and lower, so we picked the past weekend to head up and then of course the weatherman changed the forecast! -32C mornings Last time I got Leah to go up in the winter (2007) we sat inside and stared out into the cold. This time I thought if we had another couple up with us the initiative would be there to get out and enjoy what Mother Nature provides. Now what couple has a sled and their own gear I thought.... well that Tybo and Joey couple seemed to fit the bill perfectly and they both were able to get some time off work to do so. Leah and I headed up first thing Thursday morning... well it was supposed to be first thing, but we all know how that goes! lol I need to get a trailer or a bigger truck.. or start ditching stuff. Arrived in Temagami mid afternoon, got to the camp and got the woodstove fired up and the power turned on... then went to town for provisions while the place heated up. Had a good supper and watched a beautiful sunset. Puttered around on Friday waiting for these two to arrive! We should have got out and fished... but hell, we sat around inside and caught up from our last yak fest in June! At this point Leah's already had enough of Tybo's yaking! Actually don't know why the looks... probably both thinking where they're gonna stick the camera! Saturday morning came and it was -31C .... so we took our time.. Paul and I went for minnows ....1 dozen for me 2 for Paul. When counting them later I had about 55 and Paul probably a 100. Including a $3 BBQ lighter and taxes these cost us a total of $12.53 at "Dad's"!!! Finally hitting the lake about 11am! lol Still -24C... but the gals are in good spirits! We went a good 6 miles up the NE Arm and drilled some holes where the lads and I had some good luck last year for Whities. Joey in out of the wind and Paul on the ice. "You want me to show you what"... damn it's cold ! Get that darn heater going!! Had no luck there and decided to move a few thousand feet. Joey got one nice little laker... but they're OOS so no pics to show of it unfortunately. Released just fine. Sunset came and we packed up and headed back down the lake. Stoked the fire and got our cores warmed back up before going for the best Chinese food in Ontario. Sunday AM... or was it PM lol.. we headed up the lake again. Sunday AM was -33C so we weren't in a rush! Took us to a spot I'd never fished...but it looked "right" for Whities. We got set up.. holes drilled and I told Paul I was done being a good host and waiting for him to catch a fish. Told him he had 10 minutes or we'd go ahead and catch some ourselves!! 4 minutes later... FISH ON! But not what we expected out of 72 FOW. "Yah.. that sun's nice..... but can we close this sucker up and turn on the heat!" lol What a trooper!! Joey's turn again for fish on. She out fished the three of us... and note she uses no electronics... just old school jiggin. What can this one be...... a Ling ! So Leah's off yaking with Paul and her line goes ding... ding... I yelled she had a fish biting and grabbed the rod and handed it over to her. What a fight and who knows what this one was going to be. Paul came over to grab it so I grabbed the camera and got this shot coming thru the hole. Beauty laker that again released just fine! Joey's turn again... and again a Pickeral out of 72 FOW. DOA... but thankfully below the slot size so table fare! Then just before sunset it was my turn....again in 72 FOW. I had my spoon 7 feet off bottom and watched this guy shoot up from bottom on the Lowrance and nail the hook! A shot inside the hut to show our set up and the roominess of the Frabil Trekker. Joey and Paul's Pickeral had blue slim on them! Was a tad warmer Monday morning! And even with that Paul still needs to buy a Ford if he wants to live in the North! Damn GMC's !! Rurr.. Ruurrrr ... Rurrrrr... Click... click... lol Once we got that little problem running..... Paul and Joey decided to load up and hit the road vs fishing part of the day. Probably a good plan considering their delays on the way home. Leah and I were staying one more night and then our neighbours on the next island came home after 2 weeks away. Tuesday I spent shovelling off the entire cottage roof to negate the ice damns and then the neighbours begged us to stay another day and Doug and I went out Wednesday for a couple of hours. About 15 minutes into our outing... I got what we were after all weekend. A small Whitefish. We got nothing after that so headed back to the cottage and started packing up. Loaded the sled etc and got on the road around 5PM. Drive was miserable... thru Powassan too late to visit Bernie... stuck behind the plows for almost an hour North of Orillia and finally home just before 10PM. A great weekend away.... with a great couple to share laughs with.

Do they still put air cooled engines in them things... lol

Have a GREAT GREAT time Rob. God knows you need some R & R !

What Rizzo and Bigsmallie said. Pull you lose.. simple as that. I'm missing 38% of my future "life" right now and spending VERY carefully because of it. Even got Joey to buy me a meal this week! Was wrenching on my own (damn '98 GMC sierra) vehicle all day because of it instead of dropping it at a shop. Gotta start cutting $ output somewhere until things improve in the markets. Maybe there's something in there you can cut while you wait for your investments to rebound as well.

That snow bank looks like MY laneway Snag!

Last update of the concert poster.

Exactly John.. just crack the foam slit and loop the cable once around the inside of the foam "tube". You can kinda see it here...

Exactly Raf... all I am using is an 8" piece of foam water pipe wrap. Loop the cable around it and adjust to the length you want. It doesn't move/slip what so ever. Easy to throw in hole and take back out. Foam submerges except for about 2 inches. Ice forms around it and easily breaks off when time to go as you can just squeeze the foam and the ice comes off.