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I bought a blue charts for my Garmin from kijiji, I saw the same guy still advertise. $20 I paid for sd card, it's working great.

I am wondering if somebody can share experience using ice fishing rods from Simax. thank you

I am putting minnows in salt for couple days, after that I am washing them and drying on news paper for 30 minutes. All minnows are going to plastic box and in my fridge. I am not keeping them in freezer, because after freezer it's hard to keep them on the hook.

I was using Lindy's Fly spoon tipped with big minnow, father - mostly jigging Raps tipped with Janson eggs or Berkley Gulp maggots. Pike was caught on tip-up with big shiner.

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.