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hey Ron...hope your getting your icefishing starter pack for Xmas you gonna get out on the ice soon bass Killer? Look forward to your reports Walleye_man......what bodies of water do you fish? Ah come on wayne...ya know ya wanna Thanks Disco Phish (ps...liking the screen name...lol...i'm presuming its not your real name.) I did get out the next day, and we did have some luck, just posting the new report in a moment. Thanks Bruce, good to see ya finally came to your senses with the move back up north.....lol Sorry bro....cant be long till you get some ice out your way though eh?

Hi all, Went down to Eagle Lake for 2 hours this evening to try a different spot from the one that has been pretty slow so far despite being very productive last year. Its a well known spot with easy access some 20 minutes up the road. there were around ten holes already there (not too hard to re-open ) and i set about drilling around 10 more to cover all the options that spot provides. basically there is a bay in one direction and a narrow channel leading to an open body of the lake in the other. The holes there already were where it starts to shallow up to the bay, and i drilled holes in the other direction untill i found 18 FOW wwhich is the bottom of the drop off. Nothing fancy today...just good old jigs and minnows. Got into one right off the bat as so often happens, then nothing for a good 1/2 hour till the light started to fade. All but one of the fish came out ofthe same hole......holes no more than 5 feet away wouldn't produce. The hole was midway down the drop-off at 14FOW. MY WALLEYE SESSION THIS EVENING Might get time to try another spot tomorrow...till then Tight lines Simon

Welcome onboard Bunker, good luck finding your boat...hope ya get what ya need....now put those thoughts of boating away somewhere safe and get icefishing man! but seiously...lol...WELCOME

Welcome to the board ML-S......good to have a small engine guy about....my garage is full of them and i get nervous if i have to change a spark plug....lol.

Mike...www.snowmobilefanatics.com is another good resource. Thanks for the post by the way...i think i understand a little bit more sled jargon/talk now.....very interesting.

I posted a few weeks back asking if anyone knew where i could buy Power bait Micro tubes (1") as i was having difficulty finding them. I searched Berkely's website and could only find Atomic Tubes...some pre-rigged thingies. I sent berkely an email asking if they had discontinued the original Micro tubes...here's the reply Simon, Sorry, you are correct it is obsolete. Regards, Meechelle Verwey Customer Service Pure Fishing Canada Man that sucks.

Good point Rick....lol

Thanks Jake! also gotta mention JP had a hand in highlighting the issues some people were having Thanks JP! OFC STRIKES AGAIN!

Thanks Rick....lol...to make it worse it was actually with Stu Mckay of Catsonthered that we were meant to be meeting up with....DOH!!!

i call it discrimination ....lol...all of Ontario?......they cut us off!

Hey waterwolf, i'm pretty sure my local tackle shop carries them, i definitely saw them in either Cabelas or wholesale sports in Winnipeg. If ya like i could see what we could arrange to get one to ya if i do find them, i realise we are a ways away from each other...but where there's a will eh?

Fantastic trout Jay! wow 12" already......its been cold in Winterpeg i take it.....lol. I'm hoping to go for some rainbows for the first time, at a secret lake (lol....not for long, just kidding) somewhere close by to Dryden with a local guy.....i'll try your bait selection...thanks for posting.

put weights at the transducer end to self level.....or buy the ice transducer available for both models. they are both easy to use...but like anything else it takes a little time to get used to. here's a link to an awesome thread on an ice fishing forum....hope mods dont mind...delete if ya have to...i'll understand. click on the link below CLICK HERE FOR X67c set up and use videos.

Excellent post Cliff...thanks for that. I watched that video a couple of years back...its at the forefront of my brain everytime i walk onto the ice, i ven think of it when i'm out on ice thats 2 feet thick. Its like the sargeant on Hill Street Blues always used to say, " and hey....hey.......let's be carefull out there"

AWESOME DIGS LEW, CONGRATS.....beautiful place to live.

good one

I've sent you a PM

I think i can see snowmobile tracks this morning out the front on the lake. Its been -30 C at night for the last 5 days at leaqst. yesterday the lake we were on was 'booming'...scares the cr@p outta ya...but its making ice. I'm actually surprised theree is not more ice thickness, but i'd say apart from the deeper trout lakes round here we are at an average of 5-6" evrywhere else. Still not comfortable just walking out without checking as i go....but will be able to do so by next weekend for sure...i'tll be good for snowmachines by midweek.

I'm not gonna sulk...i'm not gonna sulk.....lol

Hi all, got out yesterday again. apart from one bite....which i missed....SKUNKED! Did get to meet another member of a local fishing forum who is working in our area for the time being. He was there before me and had landed 2 pike. We chatted about this and that eagerly awaiting the evening bite which is usually pretty decent on this lake...it came and went......and so did we. we would have moved around a bit more if it wasn't for the temperatures. There was a 15kmh wind gusting to 25-30, with the thermometer hovering just above minus 30 by the evening, Windchill in the -40s.......BRRRRRRRRRRRRR. GOT TO MEET PAUL... BEAUTIFUL EVENING , JUST NO FISH AND FREEKIN FREEZING!

Great job as usual Jacques....i also wondered how you did the lettering....dont tell me you did that freehand!

Hey Ramble On.....love that banner pic with the perch! Go on Ron...ya know ya wanna....lol

congrats to those guys that were accepted! Guess i'll just sit tight and keep fishin'

Cheers Misfish, going out today hopefully....its a bit cold out there today.....will have to take the flip up shack i think. Normally i would be dissapointed with that...but for first time out i am pretty pleased actually. Yup Bruce, a start....its cold out today but i hope to get a few walleye today. LOL...i dont dare salivate today....it would be drool icicles inseconds..... MAYBE???? come on man....fire up an auger! LOL.....no pun intended right? Cheers man, by your name i guess you target perch, just wondering what you use mostly, cuz there are lots of perch here, they are just really fussy, they come up and look, then take off. Yeah it sucks waiting for the ice...i feel your pain....it was almost 4 weeks late here this year! darn near killed me! Thanks JDS, i added ya as a pal too by the way might get some better vids when i'm in the shack or fishing with a buddy...its difficult to get video when its so cold.

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone else heard of this. WFN was asking people to sign up to it a while ago. basically you write in to say why you think you would be a good 'Ambassador' for your region, and that they would look at all applications and respond in 30 days. I applied....got an email confirmation saying they would reply in 30 days ( on 25th october) 30 days came and went, I emailed them a week after politely asking if there was any news......another 2 weeks have gone by and no reply to that. I was really keen and understand fully that i might not make the grade, but the lack of response just made me wonder if anyone else had applied or heard back...lol...anyone?