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Great recap Mike...sums your season up perfectly...AWESOME, man those are some chunky funky walleye...relly nice. thanks for posting. do you ice fish?

HEHE...not walleyes....my babies eyes. Not much fishin' goin on here for me at the moment...been doin digital scrapbooking today instead . Had to post this.....i'm so in love with and proud of the little guy.

I dunno....dont get much cooler than Bob Marley in my opinion....lol

I am looking for Powerbait Micro Tubes, ive searched Cabelas, Bass Pro and quite a few more online shops but to no avail. I love these little tubes...awesome on the ice for a range of species....i've even caught big(ish) Lakers on them. Can anyone send me a link to a store (Canadian preferably) where i can purchase these online? Thanks Simon ( still waiting for the ice )

I saw the first truck go across on the 12th last year......like you say Bushy....maybe a boat.

Wow! Kids are sooooo sweet! Thanks for sharing that with us

Hi all, every year since moving here i do a post of when the ice up starts. Usually its like clockwork........things start to chill off around mid September.......October is Fall.... 2nd week inNovember starts the minus temps with the gradual ice up happening and fishable ice by no later than the first week of December. Not this year.... I keep taking pictures of what appears to be the start of ice up, only to have wind and plus temperatures disipate whatever ice formed the day before. Its actually started now, and i went to put my pictures in order to make up a post.....lol...was gonna be an impossible task. The pics go back to 6th of November, and the dates from the camera are all jumbled up, but they were nice pictures so i thought i'd stick 'em together in no particular order with some music. If nothing else its a nice tune for a Sunday morning.

LOLOL....ditto here Drifter

I think its finally started...after many..many false starts. were at zero temps during the days now too so it wont be long.....i might hit up that lake i asked your advice about last year re: catching bass thru the ice...say i'm gonna try every year and never do, but its one of those small lakes that ices over quick. Anyhoo....great post Jacques...keep up the good work.

Scoot down to Upper Manitou in the early hours and catch my limit of Lakers......head down the logging road again and hit Dore Lake for whities in the afternoon and be there for some walleye action on the evning bite same lake ......lets hope the skidoomobilethingy dont break down too often.

Awesome...in 42' of water......i'm gonna have to try that. Hmmmmmm......ive always got my camera running....lol...i'm only 4 hours from Winnipeg...lol...hint...hint

my unit says its 800w....i started tying my flouro leaders straight to the mainline braid because i was picking up the micro swivel at depths upto 80'.....might have picked it up at deeper depthsa but i dont fish anywhere that deep (yet).

time for me to move further north

Oh....lol

Why?

Great pics...great report....stunning locations... Thanks solo....now i'm really depressed....lol.

I know what ya mean Bushy....it hurts to see that rport....but its a good pain....lol. CONGRATS BOYS...that is one of the best bass reports i've seen on here!

Its gonna increase the amount of fish you catch 100 per cent. you are gonna love it....you will never fish without one again. ENJOY....NOW BRING ON THE ICE

PM sent Fishnwire

It sounds absolutely like a transducer issue. I got my fishfinder around February time 2 years ago....needless to say they were out of ice transducers that late in the season. They put one on order and i just went home with the unit that came with the bullet style transom mount skimmer that is very similar to yours. I still used that one till the ice ducer arrived....i bought a $6 kids goalie stick at CT.....cut the blade off so i just had the aluminum handle with the wide part of the stick to mount the transducer bracket on. I lined up the bottom of the trans ducer with the bottom edge of the stick exactly as you would with the bottom of your boat hull, drilled holes in the aluminum stick part....inserted a 14 inch bolt screw thing i found knocking around in one of my cupboards and attached 2 old 4oz sea fishishing sinkers where the aluminum met the wide part of the goalie stick, the weights helped to level the stick out as it was half plastic so would float off centre...then would lose signal. When i got the ice transducer 3 weeks later i had the chance to use it still and could tell no difference between my hocky stick contraption and the new self weighted and centering iceducer, the only difference being the portability of the latter.....lol...also got far fewer strange looks with the icetducer than with the sawn off hockey stick out on the ice. Whilst the hockey stick and other variations on that method work great....its really nice to have an ice transducer..less bulky awkward, stores easy, less space etc......Humming bird do an ice transducer for your model......click this link fishingwire and check it out. HUMMINGBIRD ICE TRANSDUCER FOR A 565 UNIT

This suggests that LCD units have some kind of lag due to cold weather....ive been out in -25 without my shelter and i'm telling you all....there is no lag on my fish finder....the screen did not freeze and break.....Ive fished side by side with a vex and no interference.....I have posted numerous videos of my Lowrance x67c in action if ya dont believe me...lol....too many myths perpetuated about flashers v. lcd fishfinders usually at the expense of LCD fishfinders as a tool on the ice by folks who use flashers. At the end of the day have a look at both, they will both put more fish on the ice for you...i like my LCD because i use it in graph mode...it has a flasher mode....but i prefer the graph mode. I can zoom in on any part of the water column, have split screen zoom mode...lots of stuff...flashers now also have these features. What i really like about my lcd fishfinder is i use it as my main fishfinder on the boat as well.....so for $ 360 i have a summer and winter outfit....i'm happy with that.

LOL...i wasn't gonna chime in cuz i feel like a Lowrance salesman sometimes.... i think Ben is onto something with the feirce loyalty thing....the debates and rages i've seen people get into about which brand (the vex guys are the most fiercly loyal...or should i say they seem to get 'vexed' very easily....lol). I'm glad you liked the video...wasn't good enuff to persuade you to get one? Cheers Simon

WOW! Great haul of bass there SBK....i'm sure those who've been out with ya loved it...if not....lol...well...they should take up golf or chess or something....ooooops....hope i dont upset too many golfers....lol...but golf is even worse than cricket!

good stuff ancieguy, i know its cliche to say this...but the kid's smile says it all! weirdest location for a mushroom....lol