limeyangler

Well, got the bad news today........i'm probably unemployed by next week. The real kicker is my wife works for the same firm and is also likely to get axed too. I actually feel a little excited because this is definitely an opportunity to explore new options/broaden horizons....hell.....might even start as a dock boy and work on becoming a fishing guide up here...DREAM COME TRUE!!! might just be the push i needed. I guess i'm just not feeling the excitement as much as i could because the reality is we are pretty screwed. Lots of folk already been laid off from the forestry industry up here.....guess i know how they all felt now. Good news is, we have a new baby...what more incentive can you get to get of yer butt and sort things out...somehow...lol...anyhow! I'm gonna be a really miserable dude for a while...lol...fishing budget will take a huge hit....and to top it off i'll have to quit smoking...HEY...another positive but boy i'll be moody...lol Wow...what a day..... Oh well, i have a wife that loves me ( we'll see if she still does after 2 weeks of not smoking), a beautifull baby, a dozen minnows in the bucket.....and a lake at the bottom of the yard to go drown them in....alls not lost! PS.....I will be taking Friday the 13th very seriously from here on out

I ate some a couple of seasons ago, best tasting fish around if ya ask me...and yes...they are absolutely related to cod...same genus or whatever the scientific word is. I researched it after tasting it because it is EXACTLY LIKE COD...did it in a beer batter...awesome! Two reasons i have not eaten more is because getting the skin off looked a bit of a chore (the guy i was with did a slit all round the head , grabbed some pliers and pulled...peeled it like a banana, the other reason was that unless you get a fairly decent size one there was not much meat to be had off it, but that might just be his skinning abilities...but mine would be worse.

average...very average

Congrats, she's a keeper for sure!

saw this on an ice fishing forum...thought i'd share with yall

WHAT!!!!!????? HEY HANG ON A MINUTE.... you dont catch walleye ever then go and do that!!! Holy crappolla batman...that was freekin awesome! Cant believe that this post has been up for 4 days and i missed the event of the year...JB CATCHING WALLEYE! Great job man...loved the write up...kinda spooky though...the shot of the jumping walleye from 2 angles at what looks exactly the same time..... ( now imagine doing that with a 1/4 jig and minnow, in 30FOW all day....actually in summer.....hint ...hint) Great job boys...hard to top like you said...but with a guide like that i'm sure it wont be an issue for long. Cheers Simon

dont give up the day job........what is her day job thes days...lol

Excellent video TJ! Love the bit when you approach the 2nd creek and say "This is gonna suck"....LOL....YA THINK! you deserve a medal or an extended stay in a mental health clinic...or both...lol. My wife actually picked out 2 pairs of those for me when we visited BPS in Vaughan in October. Its been a bit warm for me to wear them yet, but i tried them on and they feel comfy and toasty....dont think i'll be double socking this winter....and with a lifetime gaurantee for $12.99 cant go wrong really. Just a thought....what would you have done if you thought the socks sucked! That would have been a good video too...dont think you would have got many more gift cards though for ththe competitions....lol. Have you moderater guys ever thought of having a 'Product Review' section on the site...would that be workable? I definitely would be up for writting up reviews for the gear i use...both pros and cons. Anyhoo......thanks for the video...great job! Cheers Simon

LOL JB....a pdf definitely wont help me...cuz i'm running freekin' Vista and my Adobe is shot to hell anyway...lol.

I was busy loading garbage into my truck and was not paying much attention to the big lake at the bottom of the yard...lol....talk about missing the obvious! Anyhoo, i catch a glimpse and there it was....THE BACK OF OUR BAY IS STARTING TO ICE OVER!!!!....only a couple of weeks now till i walk down the lawn .....tie a rope round the spruce....inch my way out with the ice pics and a pdf and drill a couple holes! OUR BAY THIS MORNING

So my 'buddy' Lew leaves a message to ask if i wanna join him and his brother-in -law Rick Muskie fishing on Saturday.....guess what...i had to work They head back to the lake i went to with Lew in August where we did not get a follow all day, and yup...in a couple hours they land three nice muskie, lose 2 more that got off and tell me they had countless follows.....now i'm not a muskie fisherman(yet)...but from what i do know thats a pretty hot 4 hour session! I cant believe I MISSED IT!!!! I still have never caught a muskie!!! I dont know the details of the lengths of the fish....and not sure what they fell to, but i know Lew likes his crankbaits and bucktails. Here's the piccies Lew emailed me earlier this evening. LEW AND HIS FISH RICK AND HIS 2 FISH I had to console myself so me and my son went fishing...lol...well mum held our son. He isn't holding a rod yet but he's getting the hangf of this fishing thing...lol...maybe he'll be able to show dad how to get a muskie one day!

Hi all, Went to get some more supper yesterday, did ok again....must admit i'm itching to get icefishing though, shore fishing is fun but if i cant be in my boat(winterized it now) i'd rather be on my snowmachine skipping across lakes runnin' and gunnin' for lakers and whities!!!! Anyhoo......here's the vid

Thats one of the best ones ever!

Thanks for all the replies guys, a couple people asked how i shoot the vid clips while fishing, well , its nothing fancy LOL Spiel, funny the things you notice when reviewing the clips. Yup a Limey....not Australian! A change is better than a rest? I had a dream about icefishing last night...guess i'm really looking forward to it, and yeah..snow is normal this time of year. JB....get yer family up here, I aint gonna say it again!

LOL...there ya go SNAG.....a slightly more leftfield type report....just waht i needed. Awesome pike, great report thanks for that! Simon

Nice pics ancieguy....actually...stunning pics i should say!

nice one big guy! sorry to hear you took a tumble, i nearly ended up in the lake today too, Sorel boots not too good on bare rock i guess.

Nice wallies Fishnsled, 60k winds!!!!! hats off to ya on that one! Quick question, keep seeing things like "not bad...we went 5 for 7" what does that mean? is it you landed 5 and missed 2? Thanks for posting Simon

I feel for ya dude, never an easy thing.

I'm on it Wayne, looks like i've got 3 days of 10 degrees C over the weekend, just hope the hose pipe thaws quickly this morning.

Nice one Dawg, Still looks kinds warm down there. good job on chucking it back.

Thats hilarious!!! gonna have to show the ice forum that one. thanks RFS

Hi all, Went for a couple of hours from the shore this afternoon, getting cold up here now, snowing plenty too....not long before the ice reports start flowing Anyway, took a lot of video footage and mashed it together....i think thats called editing...lol..... COUPLE HOURS BY THE LAKE SHORE

Yup, its totally infested....a 10 point jumped a neighbours fence where i work night shifts and scared the @#$# out of us whilst we were outside having a smoke....and thats right in town too! We've got 3 does on our property in the bush since May...we've watched them raise 6 bambis between them. They aint bothered by you either......here's one on my drive the other day....i wasnt using much zoom either...lol...it was a stand off....

Top stuff as per usual Ben! Great looking toofy critters! Now go and get those deer so we can go icefishing, first ice brookies is on the cards....Brkygtr wants to go to a little lake on Aitokokan hwy......should be too long now! Once again...great musky action bro....and top notch report. Graham's mustouchio is growing exponentially....lol