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Yeah Dale, so sorry mate. I had both clips on my desktop....but because they look the same except for the title...i uploaded the good....ooops...i mean bad version

I'm sooooooo sorry folks....i intended to totally edit out the video....some very bad language on there....i posted the wrog version...very sorry as i know it would offend some people. I have edited out the remarks now...but i noticed at least 8 people had veiwed....humblest apologies. Simon

Hi Y'all, Got out with Brkygetr again, same lake as last week, but we managed to get to the other rock point just across from where we fished before. It was great to see that a few snowmobiles had used the trail since the dump of snow we got during the week, but we still had a whole load of slush to contend with out on the lake. We were set up by 8:30am......and waited and waited, lots of baitfish schools swimming through on sonar......but zip...nada....nuffink...biting. I tried for whitefish again...but nope...nothing. It was a nice drop off where we were, going from 0-55' FOW 50yards from shore, with a nice shelf about 20ft from shore at the 25ft depth, this is where our few fish came out. We built a fire and snacked on smokies, always nice to build a fire. We did catch 3, the first one went back...a bit small, the second one had shoulders and is the best one i've iced so far, the next 2 got off, and Dale landed a good one near the end. All in all a very slow day, not the slowest either of us had had....but slow. Great weather, although we were in the shade most of the day, but no wind and not cold. Her'es the piccy/video of the day's action. 2ND FISH OF THE DAY WAS DEFINITELY A KEEPER ONE GOT OFF....ONE DIDN'T <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/Movie-1.flv">

Firstly....NICE WALTER! Fishing for us(lakers) was the slowest day so far this year....it was a really sunny day....i'm beginning to see a pattern...i dont do well for lakers when its a clear day, regardless of moon phase!

hmmmm.....minus 18C....cold indeed......an average day up here Congrats on the fish, nice looking trout...yum!

WOW...and i thought shorts in the '80's were short! Great pics Cliff, i especially like the one with the waders in the river...i have a very similar one of my dad. Like i said, great pics, NOW GET A WOOLY SWEATER ON AND DRILL SOME HOLES!!!! all the best simon

Great report! Ahhhhh....gonna have to call my brother in law and use his place in Antigua some time soon. Never caught a bone fish myself but the exact same bite off thing happened to me in antigua. I was fishing the mangrove flats....had waded half a mile out into the bay....was pulling in a 3 foot barracuda...when somthing ripped into it, lol...pulled in a 1 1/2 foot barracuda....i felt a bit vulnerable standing waste high in the water in the middle of the bay a good 1/2 mile from land with a 3 foot baraacuda eater nearby...lol. Thanks for sharing and congrats to you and Ginny for the baby. Simon

GREAT POST! never thought about it before...will have to get back to ya....lol....

great stuff Jen. congrats on the walter!

Excellent stuff Pikeslayer, lol....open water on a sled?!...lol braver than me...but oh yeah...i dont have to worry about that....I AINT GOT A SLED....lol Those greys sound amazing...we have a lake here where they are very pale...but they still have markings. 30 trout in a day is some haul, good job. We went yesterday...size was a bit better but a very slow day....only 3 landed...1 put back and 2 got off. Dont know what to say about the pictures.....hope you get it sorted , would love to see the pics. Thanks for sharing Simon.

Great little afternoon session. 15" walleye not to be sniffed at....lol.....i'd be happy with that the way the walleye bite seems around my neck of the woods at the moment. Thanks for sharing.

SNAG....please ,please,please lend me the prism through which you view the world.... once again the King of Original Posts strikes again LOVE IT Keep 'em coming!

LOL...you lucky so and so...lac seul being your backyard...i get Wabigoon!!! Thats a huge sauger...nice one Love those dark colours on the walleye from those waters, Great pics.....love the look of that Hbird good stuff Simon

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

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