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For anyone wondering what shop they should be avoiding.....Northeatsshark named them in his reply above....and it aint Railside.

Slowpoke....SPOT ON MATE! Thats exactly how i view it at the moment...like you said...im getting shafted from both ends.......thought that only happened in prison when you drop the soap....lol....not thati would know

Hi All, They called this morning, still telling me that its my fault for telling the actual mechanic to hold off on the work and not the front desk. I told the front desk that it was...by law....actually their responsibility to make sure authorization had been given and to make an accurate record of that. anyway, blah...blah...blah later....i was getting really mad....she gives me a price $2100 taxes included, and the sled is good to go...mechanically as they have not checked the engine . This figure has dropped from $3000, and whilst now she was suddenly offering to put it back together the way it was brought in I kinda look at it this way. Paid $1900.....a similar sled in good running order can fetch between $2500 and max $3000. So....if i go on the low figure of $2500....and add $2100 ive paid $1600 more than i budgeted for. I am so fed up at this point i'm willing to take the hit (god i hope the engine is ok). I can only console myself in the fact that if she runs good, i get a sled with a good engine that is mechanically sound which will do me for a few years. I pay off my truck in 3 years time....then buy a new sled with a warranty......NOT A POLARIS BECAUSE IDONT WANNA SERVICE IT THERE!!!! I am going to call Polaris and tell them as much, and let them know i will not be getting a Polaris...ever!!!! because of this...see what they say. I know i'm kinda letting my "wants" get the better of me...i "want' a sled now!!!! but i made the decision and will have to live with it. Thats not to say i'm ungrateful of the offers to take the sled back the way i got it....and take it to Rickter's store, or Brkygetr to help me fix the parts up. .....but to be honest....this sucks....but things are pretty good, my wife and i are healthy, we have a little one due in march (too cool), I might have to buy cloth nappies now and wash them given all the money we're spending....lol....but if you listen to the politicians....I AM A NATIONAL HERO....STIMULATING THE ECONOMY! Have a great day all....... Thanks for all the support Simon.

Great stuff BassAsin, Love the bit about not sleeping, xmas eve...i'm totally like that before a fishing trip. Thanks for sharin"

That is a very nice walleye, good job guys

You know what guys.....i cant thank you all enough. The replies, advice and offers of help from local and non local members are just above and beyond. I was kinda feelin really crap about all this, especially ranting at the shop owner, but now i feel totally justified to be as P'd off as i am, and the bugger aint getting away with this! Thanks for all your support, I knew there was a reason i liked this place so much Rickster....thanks man!...Brkygetr....thanks man! Pikeslayer.....Thanks man!

Nice lookin trout there Ben. Gawd...i'm so glad you got out on the ice again, i could feel your pain bro....it was excruciating! I love the look of that Hummingbird flashr....just looks so simple and user friendly. I almost tried the lake you were on when i was working at pelican falls last year, the boat launch before the little bridge on the Hudson Highway was 5 mins drive, but there was just to much snow last year, and the snowplows had built up a 10' high wall of snow at the entrance to the boat launch when i went (not quite ten feet high...lol...but close.) Good to have ya back, its gonna be a good fishing season, a can sense it...lol

nice job! That is great!

I just spoke to the owner, he had the nerve to say..."im gonna take the new parts off , then come by with the trailor and take it back to the guy you bought it from". I nearly passed out , the dang nerve of the guy! I asked him if he was gonna put it back together...NO...was the reply. So yeah...right...i'm gonna take a sled that was whole and running, back to a guy who wont return my calls, completely broken down and demnd my money back. The owner of the repair shop proceeded to laugh on the phone while talking to me, saying that i was obviously ticked at the guy i bought it from and not him. I corrected him saying that what i was talking about was not being informed of cost/given an estimate before work went ahead...and yes i was ticked at being sold faulty goods...but that was not why i was talking to him, i was talking to him because they had effectively written themselves a blank cheque. I asked him that if thy had discovered the engine was completely shot whether they would have gone ahead and replaced it and not informed me...he said no. Thats when he started to backtrack...i think hefinally understood the point i was making. he admitted that he did not know who had given aythorization for parts to be ordered and work to go ahead...which means they did not record this info...required by law. I really hate this, cuz i feel like i'm being unreasonable, and being difficult. It is sucjh a small town, it sucks to think that i'll be seen as the villian. To demonstrate how small this town is....the guy i boight the sled from was in our cabin for the a fishing competion last year...and the guy who owns this repair garage was also in the competition in the cabnin next door. LOL...maybe if i dont go anywhere near fishing competitions my luck will change! i found this which may help anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation....... ontario law on auto repair estimate giving

Thanks Big Cliff, i am gonna hold off to see what the owner has to say, . but will PM ya details if they aint gonna play fair.And your right, should have not gone back to them after first time. In fact i took the outboard to actual yamaha dealer in Sioux Lookout, and they did a great job last May, took them 1/1/2 weeks to sort out all the problems that were still there after i took it to these guys the year before. I'm doubly ticked because i've spent a lot of moneyt with them. When we moved here we needed to buy various things and spent $7000 on brand new snowblower, lawn tractor, chainsaw, weedwacker and all safety equipment etc....reasoning was they had been put forward as great people to do business with and that because it was all Husquvarna and they would service it. I am in this position where i dont wanna get pi$$y with them because of this...but my patience is now thinner than the walleye bite on Wabigoon !!!

Hi Y'all, Well here's the story. Bought a 2nd hand snowmachine from a guy i knew, looked in great condition, took it for a test drive, seemed great. Took it to my local garage/mechanicfor a pre-use service /once over so i could make sure i was not gonna run into too many problems out on the ice. With hindsight i should have done this before parting with the money, but hindsight is 20/20 vision as they say. Anyway, took the sled to the mechanic omn 12th december and called back on 18th, anyway....they start to tell me all this stuff wrong with it and start saying that by the time you add Parts and labour i'm looking at $1500. I paid $1900 for the sled. The next day i went to the shop and the mechanic had my sled racked up with the track off and started showing me what they'd found"so far". I was not happy as you can imagine so i says to them, ok...well keep going, find all that needs fixing and when your done give me a call with an estimate. Anyway.....xmas comes and goes....no word. I give them a call on the Monday after Xmas and am told the mechanic is not there but will be in on Tuesday 30th Dec. Call back on tuesday and am told that the mechanic is not there after all, but that the parts have started to arrive. I said i asked them not to start before getting an estimate, and was told to talk to the mechanic. So...new years comes and goes and i decide to wait for them to call me...well no word up till today, so i decide to pay them a visit. I was told to go and talk to the mechanics in the shop. I did pass the owner who was there and mentioned to him that they had started without giving me a quote again, he kinda shrugged this off. Anyway...i go into the garage and the guy is working on my sled, he's got the new frames and sliders on the floor and is fastening the rear suspension to the frame. I say how much and when will this be ready, he tells me its still around $1500 all included. I'm not happy about this but am willing to suck up the cost and learn from my experience if its $1500, i dont tell them this, but its what i'm thinking. The mechanic says there are a few extra parts they needed to order but that these were only $10 and $20 bucks, but he will get the shop front to call me this afternoon with an actual estimate of the cost. So this afternoon i get the call, and am told now that PARTS ALONE ARE $1800!!!!!! AND WITH LABOUR ON TOP ITS GONNA BE IN THE REGION OF $3000!!!!!!!!! I explained to the lady that i was absolutely not willing to accept this as this situation is not what i agreed to. The woman said "well there was nothing on the invoice saying hold on, and give quote first".....i told her that this is exactly what i had asked for as i am not in the habit of effectively writting people blank cheques! I reminded her also that this exact sitiuation happened 2 years ago when i took my outboard to them 2 years ago, i.e. they went ahead with the work when i had asked them to give me an estimate first. I feel like they are for some reason taking advantage of me, surely any mechanic , even if they were not asked to wait before going ahjead would at least contact you if the price of repairs was going beyond double what the sled is actually worth....and i know they know how much its worth because its a polaris and they are a Polaris dealer....... I'm pretty ticked off, llolol..but have so far held it together really well with repect to my dealings with everyone involved...i've learned yelling does not get you much...but sometimes it has ...and i'm getting to the point where i'm gonna go wading in old fashion style and start to curse , swear, threaten, HURT PEOPLE...lol...i'm 6'2" 215lbs and can kick the living crap out of someone if need be....sorry..........PHEW DEEP BREATH thats better....lol I know there are bigger problems in the world...but needed to vent....sorry for spewing this on you guys, but your like an extended family

DITTO

Was..........now 82cents this morning.......price rise of 20 cents in less than 24hours....some crap goin on here me thinks.

Nice fish there Kemps, good picture too, Thans for sharin that

Holy carapolla!...that is one hell of a report. I was exausted and exhilerated just reading about your trekking off the tracks in the first 2 days, what an adventure! glad you got a trout after all that effort! Absolutely brilliant write up, but the pictures are fantastic too....lol...am i raving?... I especially like the Snowflake pic on day 1, the sleeping in the tree Day 3, and the perch through the shelter window thanks for sharing.

Excellent stuff Dano! love the pics. Nice bit of carpet for the faithfull companion too...lol...nice touch. I love looking to see what fish have been munchin' , that's really cool, i think its sunfish too. Healthy looking perch Thanks for sharin.

Nice looking perch there...especially the 2 big ones strategically arranged on the top of the pile

thats the reason!!!!

Hi Y'all, Well, guess I’m an addict....lol...went back for trout again. my buddy matt called me at work last night and asked the dumbest question...."do you wanna go fishing tomorrow?"....lol...duh! are there bubbles when a duck f@rts? My wife was at work so no worries there, got the snowblowing and chores done that afternoon...so tomorrow was good to go! Well tomorrow turned to today and we eventually set off to Thunder lake again, arriving at around 10am. We set up the shack, Matt was loving the new shack and heater.....as the last time we went to thunder Lake together nearly a year ago to the day, it was -25 Celsius like today...but last year there was a strong 20kmh wind...I got frost nip on my fingers that day...WE FROZE, not today...nice and warm. ME LAST YEAR AFTER OUR DAY ON THUNDER LAKE....DARN IT WAS COLD THAT DAY.....AAHHHH THE MEMORIES We found the spot I was at the other day despite the snow dump of the past few days(next years toy is a GPS) and were greeted by a sonar screen showing a 10 foot deep band of smelt.....PERFECT! LOTS OF BAITFISH UNDER US We did not get any bites for almost an hour. We had two lines each, jigging inside the hut with static lines outside within view from inside....did I mention it was freezing cold out there today?...lol I was getting a little impatient...guess I’ve been spoiled the last couple of days, and started to get a little bored so tried for some whities...with one hit, but in hindsight probably a ling. After an hour Matt got into a little one, and I followed quickly after that with a nice keeper, we were both using jigs with 6" sucker minnows. Matt also got a hit on his other line but it got off at the hole. MATT GOT THE FIRST ONE I FOLLOWED WITH A GOOD SIZE ONE FOR THUNDER LAKE THIS ONE GOT OFF AT THE HOLE AFTER MATT DID THE HUNDRED YARD DASH TO HIS ROD <a href="http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/?action=view¤t=IMG_2605.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/IMG_2605.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> After the one that got away for Matt, I went on a missed bite/one that got away spree like never before....I just had to laugh...it was ridiculous, Matt also lost a couple in the next half hour, but up to 1 pm we did land a couple more...all pretty small and we set them loose to fatten up. DONT THINK I"VE EVER HAD SO MANY FISH GET OFF IN A ROW! <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/missedfishmovie.flv"> It went pretty quiet for about an hour and then picked right up again. We were seeing lots of trout, chasing our baits up and down the water column on the graph, we were trying to rob the fish off each other on the screen which was a real hoot. We'd see a fish chasing the others bait, then lower your own bait to the fish and try and distract it from the others line...lol...got pretty competitive...great fun. We also got into a few Ling too, not really big enough to keep so they went back, they were hugging the bottom but were not shy once you got their interest and would come up to 20 foot off bottom to nail the bait. GOT SOME LING <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/lingmovie.flv"> WE GOT LOTS OF TROUT, MOSTLY LITTLE, BUT WE KEPT 3 NICE ONES....IVE HAD TROUT FOR SUPPER TWICE IN 3 OR $ DAYS...I"M GOOD FOR A WHILE NOW...lol <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/catchingsome.flv">

Nice fish , great pic, wear what ya gotta wear...lol

LOVE IT! That shot of the creek/portage is stunning...the fish speak for themselves thanks for sharing.

Great stuff Johnny and 'Laker Jess". Come on JB...get that walleye...the suspense is killing me! My wife also outfishes me regularly...especially when gong for walleye...she does this thing where she holds the line wit her thumb and index finger, with the rod in the rod rest...lol..."Laker jess' and my wife...."The walter Whisperer" When you gonna get yur walleyeless butt up here dude?

Great set up you got there....lol...from another fan of the x67c Fat trout, ive been fishing really shallow so far this year...but love pulling them up from deep, specially when the have peeled a good deal of line out too...makes for a long hard fight. Thanks for sharing...i'm heading out in abbout 2 hours for some trout too.... Thanks for sharing.

I live in Dryden, fished Eagle Lake a couple of times, its ok....but if i was going for Walleye it would not be my first choice. I have never fished for or caught a musky and know that Eagle lake has a reputation for good musky fishing, certainly Bobby's Corner (tackle store) in Vermillion bay has a nice selection of musky baits. If i only had a week to fish, and given the scant knowledge i have considering i live here....lol....i would be heading to Lac Seul if it was Walleye and Musky i was after. I suggest maybe contacting OFC member Benbeattie...he has guided Lac Seul, and has caught some nice Musky, and even i can catch big walleye on that body of water. I'm sure The Lodge at Vermillion Bay would be great, and i'm not trying to send you elsewhere or say anything bad about a lodge or Lake i'm really not familiar with, just throwing what i know into the ring so to speak. Hope this helps. Simon

AMEN!