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Yesterday i was fishing with my father: We went to midland for some herring – spent 3 hours from 7 am to 10 am, no fish. Didn’t mark any, 42 fow. Left after 10. Went to Couch lake – started around 11 am. Slow bite, were fishing shallow area – 6 - 14 fow. Got a pike, moved to 24 fow for perch right after pike was caught. Got some good perch action after that until the end, left at 4 pm.

Irishfield, How do you think - is this product good to try: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/selfEtchingPrimer/ I am thinking to do some paint job once i will finish my casting deck. I guess it's really hard to say until you will try it.

Thank you Skip, I will.

I am prepairing my 14' boat for next season now. Already replaced the transom, working on the seats right now. next thing is a casting deck. Here is couple pictures:

Same here, if you need good minnows - stop by at Jacob's on HWY 11 in Orillia, it's really hard to miss this place. He is open 24/7 - spoke with him today.

I have a trip booked for Thursday - 5th of January with Idle Times. They just confirmed that we are good to go and stay over night as well.

Guys, A lot of good deals: http://www.gagnonsports.com/christmassale.html

Forgot to say that poles and hubs looks really strong, poles are plastic, but hubs are aluminum. Costco one has plastic hubs.

I had one from the Costco and used half of last hardwater season. I can't say anything bad about it, in matter of fact it's really well made with quality fabric and zippers. I bought one from gagnon this week and I like it more. It's made from 600 denier fabric, zippers are good. It's a little bit bigger, pockets for stuff on each sidewall. I liked much more, I had a chance to see this year ice inn from Costco 3 person model, it's not as good as used to be last year. They left only 2 really small windows, used to be 4. Fabric doesn't feel strong enough as old one too.

You can't use canal any more - there is some kind of bridge in the middle of it. I was hoping to get to Balsam this way and had to get back Mitchell and move to different ramp on Balsam itself.

Hi, look here: http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58453 I picked up mine today, it is way better than that one you liked. Gagnon still have them in stock.

I would recommend to get at least 2 more. See if you can get them cheap somewhere, otherwise try without them to see how do you like it.

Whatever i have is coming with 1 oz sinker, but you are right, for different condition you are putting different weight, to change sinker you are using small split ring.

That's the one.

Whatever i posted is a porolonka.

I have this rig - brought it from my Belarus trip. If you guys interested i can put some pictures here. Tried it on French River couple of times and got one smallmouth. I hope we are talking about same thing This is how is it made:

Sure, it's really helpful. Thank for that. I didn't pick up mine yet, bought it yesterday as well. I thought the same way - in a windy day you need at least 7 anchors, 4 for skirt and 3 for sidewalls. I picked up 5 of them on garage sale just in case for $2, which gives me total of 9 - and i should be fine. crappieperchhunter,I think you need to get at least couple of them to have shelter seat properly on the ice. For my old one pop-up i had only 4 anchors as well - and it was not enough.

How do you like it?

I think it's a common issue for pop-up shelter. This one is looks good, because you can put an anchors to the skirt before you will set it up.

Hi guys, Gagnon sport in Oshawa has this shelter for sale: http://www.store.gagnonsports.com/index.php?product=AP-50207 Full information about it is here: http://www.apoutdoors.com/productdetails.asp?ProductID=1429528&DirectoryID=896 Looks like really nice shelter. Would be great if somebody can share opinion or review about it. I don't like only one thing - you can't remove windows.

Registerfly, Zippers are good, no problems. Equinox sent me second set of the windows in a month after I bought this hut, they said old might not handle low temperature well - didn't happens to me when I was fishing -30 C with 40 km/h wind.

I bought eskimo auger from LeBaron last year and had to exchange it 2 times. Spend a little bit more and get a better one, Swede-Bore is great one - see if you can get it on sale. Where are you planning to fish and what will be your primary target - if it's a panfish go with 6', bigger - 8'. You will need a bucket for minnows and chair to seat. Probaly a tip-up as well. You will need a small sled - i got mine form CT last year 50% of to get everything to place. I forgot about lures - at least couple rapalas jigging raps, small and big williams, bad boys. Another member Hirk is selling a lot of staff 50% off right now - check classified.

Hey Dana, Get one from Costco - $203 (tax in) shipped to your door. You won't be disappointed. This hut is better quality.

I was using this one all last season: http://www.costco.ca/Browse/ProductSet.aspx?Prodid=10352729&search=ice+shelter&Mo=1&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-CA&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Sp=S&N=0&whse=BCCA&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ne=4000000&D=ice+shelter&Ntt=ice+shelter&No=1&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1 I was really impressed with it quality - material is really good - 600d polyester (most of cheap pop-up shelter are 300 d polyester), good zippers and poles. Price is good too - it was $203 with taxes delivered to my door.

Also i can see that they start selling ice huts again: http://www.costco.ca/Browse/ProductSet.aspx?Prodid=10352729&whse=BCCA&Ne=4000000&eCat=BCCA|111|22211|22229&N=4011457&Mo=10&No=10&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&cat=22229&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-CA&Sp=C&hierPath=111*22211*22229*&topnav= I used 2-3 person all last season and wuld like to say that this is a really good product for this money.